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  • 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

  • Why not? Better to have people sticking around for 35 years an treating it as a sinecure? Higher turnover of MPs would be a net positive.

  • vocation rather than a job

    Which is what we've always done, and ended up with the current bunch of talentless, venal cunts.

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