tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post6048902196088780288..comments2024-01-23T16:53:02.428+00:00Comments on Mark Thompson: What does this picture tell us about how modern politics works?Mark Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00744387583593537268noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-21401202422614237672012-05-31T10:00:57.331+01:002012-05-31T10:00:57.331+01:00While I agree with your points, perhaps you would ...While I agree with your points, perhaps you would demonstrate how Clegg or Huhne worked their way through the ranks? Clegg, while an MEP, was tipped early on as "one to watch" by Paddy Ashdown. Equally Huhne worked for the ratings agency Fitch. While not politics itself I don't believe workign in such a role allows one to "connect with the man/woman on the street". Also, I am not sure being an MEP actually makes one a better prospective MP for the UK. Huhne also went the PPE route and, I believe, both went to Westminster school too.<br /><br />As a Lib-Dem (well, former one, I cannot support them with their current right wing supporting agenda on student fees, NHS reforms, lack of Lords reforms and appalling lack of action on the environment) I am interested to note too that, even despite his drink problem, there were fat less mutterings about his leadership than Cleggs. I notice Nick is now being referred to as "Calamity Clegg" by more and more Lib-Dem supporters. A shame as we could have done so much good.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-8352548735136824862012-05-29T16:04:47.360+01:002012-05-29T16:04:47.360+01:00We badly need paople who have proven they can run ...We badly need paople who have proven they can run a business in the leadership!Översätt franskahttp://www.the-business-translator.se/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-54398723872285657732012-05-29T16:00:47.901+01:002012-05-29T16:00:47.901+01:00I quote Jim; "We need to make it hard for the...I quote Jim; "We need to make it hard for the people who desperately want to become politicians to actually become one, while leaving the door open for those who (having had a career doing something else) decide they have something to offer the nation"<br /><br />You are so increadible right, broilers who never really produced anything in their entire life, who doesn't understand what it means to run a business our work on the floor.Översätt till engelskahttp://www.the-business-translator.se/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-59104842248096093962012-05-28T10:19:46.976+01:002012-05-28T10:19:46.976+01:00The older I get the more I think that no one shoul...The older I get the more I think that no one should be allowed to run for Parliament until they are at least 40 years old. Preferably 45. We need to destroy this current conveyor belt system that produces cookie cutter politicians (of red blue and yellow hues). We need to make it hard for the people who desperately want to become politicians to actually become one, while leaving the door open for those who (having had a career doing something else) decide they have something to offer the nation. <br /><br />Would any of the current political leaders have bothered to go into politics if they thought the earliest they could even hope to get into Parliament was their 40s and to make a higher position in the Party could take another decade?<br /><br />Even if they still wanted to be involved at a later point in their lives, they would have to have had a career outside of politics, and some experience of life as lived by the masses, which hopefully would give them some ideals of their own, rather than a pure hunger for power, to be satisfied by joining whichever party they figure offers the best effort/reward ratio.<br /><br />While we allow young people to go from university, to policy think tank, to Spad, to safe seat by their 30s to Cabinet by 40, then we are doomed to suffer the same personalities we have had for the last 20 years.Jimnoreply@blogger.com