TOFO makes good points. Here's the problem.
The Parliamentary system is an elected dictatorship.
All current politicians value personal loyalty above all else.
Junior career politicians are preferred as candidates precisely because they have never had and are extremely unlikely to get 'a real job'. They are thus dependent on their senior political sponsors.
The chances of people with good real world experience getting selected is not high, both because they are not dependent, and because their real world experience means they are liable to think much of party political policy is b@llocks, and say so. This is seen as disloyalty to the policy writer, rather than as constructive criticism.
Even if somebody with useful real world experience gets selected and elected, there are no longer enough of them to make a difference. The bright ones understand this and so never stand in the first place.
There are only two inevitable results. The electorate stop thinking about parties and start thinking about candidates, or violent revolution as a result of societal/economic collapse brought about by policies devised by politicians with no real world experience.
Last edited by Fox3WheresMyBanana; 2nd Jul 2013 at 12:15.