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Does anyone seriously believe the argument that MP’s need to have second jobs in order to appreciate working life outside of Westminster? It might make a bit of sense if teenagers like Greta were running the country, but most MPs tend to be middle age and should by then already have a fair understanding of how life works.

 

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3 hours ago, Bill said:

Does anyone seriously believe the argument that MP’s need to have second jobs in order to appreciate working life outside of Westminster? It might make a bit of sense if teenagers like Greta were running the country, but most MPs tend to be middle age and should by then already have a fair understanding of how life works.

 

Bill 😊

Well you would thinks so, but

Taking one at random, in this case Lisa Nandy, what do you find (from Wikipedia):

Parrs Wood High School, Manchester/ Holy Cross College , Bury; Degree in Politics at Newcastle; Masters degree in public policy at Birkbeck College, Univ of London.; researcher for Labour MP for Walthamstow; Researcher for Centrpoint homelesness charity; senior policy advisor on young refugees at The Childrens Society at the same time being a councillor on Hammersmith and Fulham council. Then MP for Wigan on an all women short list.

This is pretty much the CV of a career politician.

Lisa is in a safe seat but if not the average MP will only get 5-10 years before they are voted out. So they need something to fall back on and career politicians generally have nothing but contacts in the party that just lost power so it is necessary to develop links outside Government and Politics. This as why there are so many lawyers since they can slip back to being in their former profession quite quickly.

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