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Labour & the Conservatives
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There is a bit of double standards going on there.
However, there is something a bit foul about politicians using their political career as a platform for future earnings. David Milliband, Tony Blair are the worst examples.
This is all that is wrong with politics today - folks should have real world experience first and then a political career later using that real world experience.
I can't specifically see why a former politician shouldn't get a new job after they either leave or are chucked out of parliament.
Would you prefer it if politicians had the MP job for life?0 -
The right contacts can be worth millions.
Old school ties worth more than any being bright and capable."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
Conservatives are nasty.
Labour are rubbish.0 -
grizzly1911 wrote: »Old school ties worth more than any being bright and capable.
"All that rugby puts hairs on your chest
But what chance have you got against a tie and a crest"
Paul Weller 19790 -
Miliband has never demonstrated one iota of leadership qualities.
He had the qualities required to become leader - but that's not the same thing.
Well not unless you class screwing your brother over by selling your soul for a union block vote as a leadership quality.
Well that is not the view of the board of a prestigious charity. They are not paying him £280K a year to shake charity boxes in Time Square!Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.0 -
There is a bit of double standards going on there.
However, there is something a bit foul about politicians using their political career as a platform for future earnings. David Milliband, Tony Blair are the worst examples.
This is all that is wrong with politics today - folks should have real world experience first and then a political career later using that real world experience.
No doubt you also tar Thatcher with this brush?
The argument is absurd. Surely everyone is entitled to leave a job and take another. What are people in their 40s or 50s who leave parliament expected to do? People have a right to work and use whatever skills and expertise they have acquired in their life to date.Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.0 -
What are people in their 40s or 50s who leave parliament expected to do? People have a right to work and use whatever skills and expertise they have acquired in their life to date.
I have no argument with that - however, I'd far prefer that they remain representing their constituents for the duration of the office to which their constituents elected them, i.e. not quitting until a subsequent General Election.0 -
I have no argument with that - however, I'd far prefer that they remain representing their constituents for the duration of the office to which their constituents elected them, i.e. not quitting until a subsequent General Election.
Dream jobs don't always coincide with parliamentary elections.0 -
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Conservative voters have dignity, and manners, and even when we sat through years of Labour ruining the country we didn't resort to bile and nastiness.
Labour voters only know how to hold their hands out, and throw insults around.0
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