I find the idea that a qualifier to be an MP is to be prepared to sacrifice their own situation bizarre.
Turns the position into a quasi-religeous thing, surely? Martyr to the cause of public service.
If we instead looked for competent administrators with a firm grasp of how to make something work, instead of looking for those with a religious fervour to drive free-market ideals without ever having made said ideals work might that not be better?
I guess it is supposed to be classed as a vocation rather than a job, you don't really want people attracted by the salary and them looking to change roles in two years because they have been head hunted
I find the idea that a qualifier to be an MP is to be prepared to sacrifice their own situation bizarre.
Turns the position into a quasi-religeous thing, surely? Martyr to the cause of public service.
If we instead looked for competent administrators with a firm grasp of how to make something work, instead of looking for those with a religious fervour to drive free-market ideals without ever having made said ideals work might that not be better?