tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7099099432720184584.post907143666526683604..comments2023-10-28T19:42:01.039+01:00Comments on Going fast, getting nowhere: The ATTAM* PartyRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15743685798068014455noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7099099432720184584.post-11509818054141800832011-11-09T07:33:37.554+00:002011-11-09T07:33:37.554+00:00Wipe the slate clean and start again. Not suggest...Wipe the slate clean and start again. Not suggesting lamp-posts and piano wire necessarily, but a revolution of sorts. And not the whinging gimme-gimme OLSX type either.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743685798068014455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7099099432720184584.post-81708564815620758432011-11-09T05:24:56.068+00:002011-11-09T05:24:56.068+00:00"... but I would prefer to vote for a candida...<i>"... but I would prefer to vote for a candidate who had done a proper job..."</i><br /><br />Me too. How to attract such people, though, to such a debased system?JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7099099432720184584.post-78728712316681634452011-11-08T21:55:49.529+00:002011-11-08T21:55:49.529+00:00Agree both. Age limit of 30+, certainly. The ...Agree both. Age limit of 30+, certainly. The 'proper job' bit would be harder to police - my feeling is that ought to be left up to the voters. If we didn't vote for the 'pro-pols', then they would go away.<br /><br />"I want them to have done it <b>for necessity</b> and for money, not just a hobby" - precisely. They need to know what matters.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743685798068014455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7099099432720184584.post-23861620401883529002011-11-08T20:28:14.540+00:002011-11-08T20:28:14.540+00:00To be fair, parliament has always been top-heavy w...To be fair, parliament has always been top-heavy with barristers because it reflected a world where men (and a very few aristo women) conducted their paying business in the morning then attended debates in the afternoon. <br /><br />The blogger Mr Ishmael has always been deeply critical of part-time MPs, believing they don't put their efforts in to their public work, whereas I think that's the best way. <br /><br />This week I met a young man who wants to be in politics but rather than taking a job as e.g. a shift worker in a hospital, he is again being subsidized by his parents to work for a think-tank i.e. an internship sponsored by the quite well-off as a means of gaining political preferment. <br /><br />I don't want to be dismissive of his enthusiasm, but I would prefer to vote for a candidate who had done a proper job - driven a truck, run a shop, cooked in a canteen, been a paramedic, repaired phone lines, been a police officer, served in the forces, fixed cars, taught in schools, washed windows, run a printshop, administered shipping contracts, put on plays, roadied for a rock band, cut hair, served in a bank, been on a fishing boat, milked cows, surveyed property, dispensed medicines, written softwear, even, saints preserve us, been an website designer or an estate agent. I'm really not picky but I want them to have done it for necessity and for money, not just a hobby. <br /><br />The sooner we ban unpaid internships and push parties to accept candiates no younger than 30 and with at least 5 years in a proper job, the better.Woman on a Rafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08897415591130901416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7099099432720184584.post-83969470070626532632011-11-08T17:45:28.243+00:002011-11-08T17:45:28.243+00:00I think that they would call themselves "Prof...I think that they would call themselves "Professional Politicians".<br /><br />Like management Consultants, I firmly believe that the entry level into politics should be 10 years experience in the real world doing a real job.<br /><br />Parasites, every one of them!Nikoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03119901226987582553noreply@blogger.com