There is a wider gap between the best and the worst in politics than in any other profession.
And particularly true of the present HoC. And before they are
selected for a winnable seat before they are thirty.
they are expected to "win their spurs" at a very UNwinnable one, after which predictably disasterous result, the good stay on to try again, and the dross give up. Usually!
I had the (mis)fortune to be working in Whitehall at the time of El Presidente's landslide. Talking to some of the Millbank Mafia, the most wildly optimistic thought they might get a majority "just into 3 figures".
So when they got 170 odd, net result was that many no-hopers that were expected to lose and give up didn't .....
.... and without being sexist about it, many of those were "Bliar's Babes"!