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Honestly, how "good" do we need them to be at the job. It's currently at least half done by a bunch of self serving, emotionally illiterate, entitled arseholes phoning it in for a few hours a week between engagements and pocket lining exercises, the heavy lifting is all sorted by underlings. The job should be to engage with local people and convey what they want on a national level, I don't think you need to be the best of the best to do that and if you are, maybe your time is better spent elsewhere. There should be a minimum requirement of time spent doing certain things, such as engaging with locals at surgeries or whatever, actually sitting and debating issues on their behalf and voting should be allowed virtually for times when sitting isn't practical. I'm sure that someone with half a brain and a functioning heart is preferably to the opposite when the opposite can only be convinced that serving the public is worthwhile if their over inflated salary matches the over inflated salary of those heading the world's private sector decline into the abyss.