Whilst I too would like to see more MPs with a background in real life, the problem with that is that you need young leaders to change things.
When all is good in the world, old buggers are good for maintaining a status quo, but when things are crappy, youth is need to make the change as they are not institutionalised. They don't "know" what all the old people "know" wont work, so they try it, and sometimes it does work!
If you take a quick poll of the " great" leaders in history, most of them are very very young.
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