Question time - Wed 11-11

[johnfm]

Why can't Winky McUseless pronounce the word 'constituent'?


Why are so many MPs so obviously thick?

Ken Purchase,Wolverhampton. Thick.
Brian Jenkins, Tamworht. Worse than thick. A disgrace that we pay this tt.
Jim Dobbin. Heywood and Middleto. Not thick, but clearly not from Lancashire!


Gerald Howarth, Aldershot. Well spoken and thoughtful. He didn't bother point scoring with the one eyed wasteofplama.

Why can't we have more MPs like that, instead of the thick, point scoring fkwits wasting oxygen on the left hand side of the house.

I cannot believe these people are the best 600+ we can muster to run the country.

[OnTheOverrun]

I think the problem is a fair few tory MP's take a pay cut to become an MP whereas for many Labour MP's it's the highest paying job they'll ever have. The other issue is that often to get selected as a tory MP you already have to have been successful in the real world whereas with labour you frequently have crawled your way up the insidiously secretive club that is the trade unions or worse still you've Millibanded it - university, think tank, MP cleverly avioding any contact with the real world or the need to succeed along the way.

[Uhura_Fighter]

Question time is on tonight 12/11

Have you been to the recording for todays show?



ETA: Question time is pre-recorded at 8.00

Edited by Uhura_Fighter on Thursday 12th November 21:53

[johnfm]

DOH - I meant to write PMQs!!!

[Twit]

OnTheOverrun said:

I think the problem is a fair few tory MP's take a pay cut to become an MP whereas for many Labour MP's it's the highest paying job they'll ever have. The other issue is that often to get selected as a tory MP you already have to have been successful in the real world whereas with labour you frequently have crawled your way up the insidiously secretive club that is the trade unions or worse still you've Millibanded it - university, think tank, MP cleverly avioding any contact with the real world or the need to succeed along the way.

Rubbish!!!

Most new MPs on all sides are now career politicians who have done nothing in the outside world! All sides are as bad as each other. That is the main problem with politics full stop, why should we vote for someone who has done nothing except represent and spout their own narrow minded political dogma. Thew notion that Tory MPs are ol school business boys and Labour MPs are union lags is a good decade out of date.

[Mojooo]

Twit said:

OnTheOverrun said:

I think the problem is a fair few tory MP's take a pay cut to become an MP whereas for many Labour MP's it's the highest paying job they'll ever have. The other issue is that often to get selected as a tory MP you already have to have been successful in the real world whereas with labour you frequently have crawled your way up the insidiously secretive club that is the trade unions or worse still you've Millibanded it - university, think tank, MP cleverly avioding any contact with the real world or the need to succeed along the way.

Rubbish!!!

Most new MPs on all sides are now career politicians who have done nothing in the outside world! All sides are as bad as each other. That is the main problem with politics full stop, why should we vote for someone who has done nothing except represent and spout their own narrow minded political dogma. Thew notion that Tory MPs are ol school business boys and Labour MPs are union lags is a good decade out of date.

First one to come up with 100 examples wins!

[johnfm]

Twit said:

OnTheOverrun said:

I think the problem is a fair few tory MP's take a pay cut to become an MP whereas for many Labour MP's it's the highest paying job they'll ever have. The other issue is that often to get selected as a tory MP you already have to have been successful in the real world whereas with labour you frequently have crawled your way up the insidiously secretive club that is the trade unions or worse still you've Millibanded it - university, think tank, MP cleverly avioding any contact with the real world or the need to succeed along the way.

Rubbish!!!

Most new MPs on all sides are now career politicians who have done nothing in the outside world! All sides are as bad as each other. That is the main problem with politics full stop, why should we vote for someone who has done nothing except represent and spout their own narrow minded political dogma. Thew notion that Tory MPs are ol school business boys and Labour MPs are union lags is a good decade out of date.

Just watch PMQs if you you think there is no difference.

[Twit]

Mojooo said:

First one to come up with 100 examples wins!

Haha - what career or non-career? Wait until after the election, the lack of experience of anything real world on both sides of the house will be scary!

[KANEIT]

Twit said:

OnTheOverrun said:

I think the problem is a fair few tory MP's take a pay cut to become an MP whereas for many Labour MP's it's the highest paying job they'll ever have. The other issue is that often to get selected as a tory MP you already have to have been successful in the real world whereas with labour you frequently have crawled your way up the insidiously secretive club that is the trade unions or worse still you've Millibanded it - university, think tank, MP cleverly avioding any contact with the real world or the need to succeed along the way.

Rubbish!!!

Most new MPs on all sides are now career politicians who have done nothing in the outside world! All sides are as bad as each other. That is the main problem with politics full stop, why should we vote for someone who has done nothing except represent and spout their own narrow minded political dogma. Thew notion that Tory MPs are ol school business boys and Labour MPs are union lags is a good decade out of date.

You are not a twit!

I'm sick of the fools on here arguing about 'left wing this' and 'right wing that', commies, socialists, liberal pinkos, fascists. There is so little difference between the three main parties and none of them stray far enough from the middle ground to be labelled by any of these terms. Politicians from all parties have been on the rob so corruption and immorality is across the board.They all steal policies from each other and will all as likely break them when in power anyway. Now we are at a level where we are obsessed with Gordon Brown's handwriting as if that was pivotal to the prospects of British society. Very petty.

[Fittster]

OnTheOverrun said:

The other issue is that often to get selected as a tory MP you already have to have been successful in the real world whereas with labour you frequently have crawled your way up the insidiously secretive club that is the trade unions or worse still you've Millibanded it - university, think tank, MP cleverly avioding any contact with the real world or the need to succeed along the way.

George Osborne's first job was to provide data entry services to the National Health Service to record the names of people who had died in London. He also briefly worked for Selfridges. He originally intended to pursue a career as a journalist, but, after missing out on a position at a national newspaper, was informed of a vacant job at the Conservative Central Office.
He joined the Conservative Research Department in 1994 and became head of the Political Section. Between 1995 and 1997 he worked for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food as special advisor to minister Douglas Hogg (during the BSE crisis) and worked in the Political Office at 10 Downing Street. Between 1997 and 2001 he worked for then Conservative leader William Hague as a speech writer and Political Secretary. In this role he helped prepare Hague for the weekly session of Prime Minister's Questions, often playing the role of Prime Minister Tony Blair. Under the leaderships of Michael Howard and now under David Cameron, he has remained on the Prime Minister's Questions team.

[Saddle bum]

Twit said:

OnTheOverrun said:

I think the problem is a fair few tory MP's take a pay cut to become an MP whereas for many Labour MP's it's the highest paying job they'll ever have. The other issue is that often to get selected as a tory MP you already have to have been successful in the real world whereas with labour you frequently have crawled your way up the insidiously secretive club that is the trade unions or worse still you've Millibanded it - university, think tank, MP cleverly avioding any contact with the real world or the need to succeed along the way.

Rubbish!!!

Most new MPs on all sides are now career politicians who have done nothing in the outside world! All sides are as bad as each other. That is the main problem with politics full stop, why should we vote for someone who has done nothing except represent and spout their own narrow minded political dogma. Thew notion that Tory MPs are ol school business boys and Labour MPs are union lags is a good decade out of date.

He's right.

The Tories are still largely populated by previously successful individuals. Most Labour apparatchiks have never had a proper job, mainly because they are unemployable. Qualifying as a lawyer does not count.

[Fittster]

Saddle bum said:

Twit said:

OnTheOverrun said:

I think the problem is a fair few tory MP's take a pay cut to become an MP whereas for many Labour MP's it's the highest paying job they'll ever have. The other issue is that often to get selected as a tory MP you already have to have been successful in the real world whereas with labour you frequently have crawled your way up the insidiously secretive club that is the trade unions or worse still you've Millibanded it - university, think tank, MP cleverly avioding any contact with the real world or the need to succeed along the way.

Rubbish!!!

Most new MPs on all sides are now career politicians who have done nothing in the outside world! All sides are as bad as each other. That is the main problem with politics full stop, why should we vote for someone who has done nothing except represent and spout their own narrow minded political dogma. Thew notion that Tory MPs are ol school business boys and Labour MPs are union lags is a good decade out of date.

He's right.

The Tories are still largely populated by previously successful individuals. Most Labour apparatchiks have never had a proper job, mainly because they are unemployable. Qualifying as a lawyer does not count.

A fair percentage of the Shadow cab either have a legal or management consultant background. Although Eton seems a fairly common trait.

Dominic Grieve - lawyer
William Hague - Management Consultant
Eric Pickles - local government
Andrew Lansley - Professional Politican - never had a real job
Micheal Grove - Journalist
Liam Fox - GP
Nick Herbert - PR + working for political think tanks
Thersea May - Worked for the BoE
Greg Clark - Professional politican
Theresa Villiers - Lawyer
George Younger - Merchant Banker in the 1960s, since then professional politician
Jeremey Hunt - PR / Management Consultancy
Francis Maude - Lawyer
Andrew Mitchell - Professional politican
Ken Clarke - Professional politican (never practiced law as far as I can tell and business interests seem to have occured once he had political clout).
Philip Hammond - Business Interests.
David willetts - Professional Politican
David Mundell - Lawyer
Owen Paterson - Business Interests
Mark Francois - Professional politican
Patrick McLoughlin - Farm labourer & Miner
Thomas Galbraith - Property and a Hedge Funds