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Originally Posted by Livia
I want MPs to be the best people with the best qualifications from the most diverse backgrounds. Pay them a decent salary and you attract the best applicants. Right now it IS sort of vocational. Even the Labour party are mostly made up of rich, privately educated chinless wonders and they top up their salary by sitting on company boards and investing their trust funds. I want them to give politics 100% of their attention.
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Perhaps it would be better if paid politicians agreed to have their investment assets frozen to inflation during their time in politics, and also if they simply weren't allowed to engage in any "financial extracurriculars" such as sitting on company boards...
Impossible to actually implement, of course. They'd simply use their wives / husbands and other family members as puppets.