MPs snouts firmly back in trough

Rochdale_Pioneers wrote: »

Gordon Brown was a Journalist and a College Lecturer.
Alastair Darling was a solicitor
Jack Straw was a Barrister
Jaqui Smith was a teacher
Alan Johnson was a Postman
John Hutton was a University Lecture
Peter Mandleson was a TV producer
Douglas Alexander was a Solicitor
Hazel Blears was a solicitor
Geoff Hoon was a university lecturer and a Barrister
Ed Balls was a Journalist
James Purnell was a BBC Planning Manager
Shaun Woodward was a TV Producer
Yvette Cooper was a Journalist
Paul Murphy was a College Lecturer

Not a single one of them has ever had a proper job. Apparently....

Strictly spreaking this is not incorrect but dig beneath the surface and you will find that with hardly an exception the individuals concerned have been career politicians since they were at university (or even before that in the case of John Whitaker 'Jack' Straw who was a bloody nuisance in the 1960s). Few of them actually spent any meaningful time in their professions and appear to have worked for a very short time until they got the chance to climb the greasy pole.

Mandelson for example, the well known former communist, was a career politician from leaving university until 1982 when he temporarily quit politics. He was a TV producer for 3 years until resuming his political career.

Brown's lecturing career involved lecturing in, guess what? Politics.

Methinks that RochdalePioneers is being economical with the truth and would himself make a good spin doctor.

cogito wrote: »

Strictly spreaking this is not incorrect but dig beneath the surface and you will find that with hardly an exception the individuals concerned have been career politicians since they were at university (or even before that in the case of John Whitaker 'Jack' Straw who was a bloody nuisance in the 1960s). Few of them actually spent any meaningful time in their professions and appear to have worked for a very short time until they got the chance to climb the greasy pole.

Mandelson for example, the well known former communist, was a career politician from leaving university until 1982 when he temporarily quit politics. He was a TV producer for 3 years until resuming his political career.

Brown's lecturing career involved lecturing in, guess what? Politics.

Methinks that RochdalePioneers is being economical with the truth and would himself make a good spin doctor.

I was answering a comment made by Tom Strickland:

Looking at the current cabinet, who out of any of them has every had a proper job?

I have shown that actually most of them have had a proper job. How long isn't the question - the perception is that they are all political apparatchiks who left uni and went straight into jobs as political advisors and lobbyists - that is only true for a couple of cabinet ministers.

Yes they had interest in Politics - so what? Does that mean that we ignore the fact that they had jobs? How many years do barristers and solicitors spend training before practicing those professions? How much money do you imagine they will have had throughout that period? Is that not real world experience? Isn't teaching?

I don't think any MP can be unaware of the problems of his constituents, however the aim of an MP is get elected get power and hang on to it.
Improving the lot of the country and its citizens is a bit further down the list.
Telling people the truth does not make them vote for you.

Harry.

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