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I agree but I think this is where the nutcases can come in - ideology is strongly felt on both sides, and the ambition push us towards a libertarian state or to get rid of all migrants might be felt just as strongly as an ambition to provide more help.
I do think that some people in parliament who just want to do a good job and are competent but are relatively moderate in their political views might be a good thing…
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I also think ambitions and ambitiousness is good but shouldn't be solely related to money, if someone has the ambition to represent the people where they live on a national scale for the benefit of all then that's more attractive in an MP than someone who has the ambition of earning £150k a year to own the house they want and put their kids through private school and politics is a route to do that rather than law or finance or selling cardboard or whatever. A desire to do a good job with some competency is better than being competent at earning enough in the private sector and turning your hand to running the country.