Ah, the beloved career politician - degree in Philosophy, Polictics and Economics (PPE), internship for a year in the city so that they state they have a commercial background, some time in Political Research Group, support a campaign, get in via a safe seat and then away you go; a life in politics for the rest of your life, never minding if you actually believe in what you are spouting because someone will.
I've always thought that you should be 35+ to become a politician. You must have had a career for at least 10 years before and have to sit some form of general knowledge quiz on the UK to prove that you have a basic 'working knowledge' of the UK.
It will never happen, though, as turkeys don't vote for Christmas and neither will a career politician invoke a scheme like I outlined!
There needs to be a big upset, like UKIP's Euro vote, at the General Election for a new wave of politics to occur. We also need to have a 'night of the long knives' within our own area and get rid of the uniform wearing politicians we have bred who think that Shrivenham Poly is the 'be all and end all'. We've only got to look at some of the crass decisions made by our own in Main Building, PJHQ or 4-star single-service HQs to see that common sense has long since gone in some.
LJ