Oh dear, is there anyone still backing May?

[Firefly]

Maybe Boris will make a play for P.M. we could do worse. Cometh the hour, cometh the man.

Jackie

[Dominic]

He would be a terrible PM.

[Firefly]

Why ?

[chatsworth]

Ha ha ha

[Jimgward]

Boris as PM, surely a joke?

He’s an intelligent, fake, egotistic, lying, self-serving twit (and that’s me being nice to him)

When London mayor, he was in favour of Europe. He led the Brexit campaign with lies (as usual) but didnt think they would win, but would raise his profile. He has buggered off twice now and should bugger off for good. A perfect example of a stuck-up, snobbish, ultra-rightwing twit.

[Firefly]

Jim

Your description fits most M.P.s, even left wing, no choice then.

[Jimgward]

I agree. Most politicians of any flavour, are not in it for anyone but themselves, however Boris is one of the worst ever. He’s the UK’s Donald Trump and would be a terrible leader.

[Dominic]

Actually I disagree. A lot of politicians are actually do care. They could be earning a much bigger coin in the private sector. You don't enter politics if you want to get rich.

[Firefly]

Oh Dominic, please, do you know a poor one ? Even with the fat salaries they have, they still fiddle their expenses and get away with it because they 'made a mistake', if it was you or I, we would be behind bars.

Jackie

[Dominic]

Compared to people with similar skills working in industry they get paid peanuts. Now you my not like that, but it is true.

[Varky]

Actually I disagree. A lot of politicians are actually do care. They could be earning a much bigger coin in the private sector. You don't enter politics if you want to get rich.

Based upon the performance of many MPs I would not pay them in milk bottle tops. If they were to get a job in the private sector it would be because of the connections gained during their stay in parliament and not because of their capabilities. Just look at the mess they are making of Brexit and this applies whether they are remainers, brexiteers, labour, conservative, liberal etc. I would guess most MPs have never done a real job in their life. Unfortunately, as you say, the true carers are the ones are the ones that don't really need their MPs salaries or expenses, but they are a dying breed.

[Firefly]

Varky

Well said.

Dominic

Which skills are you referring to ?

Jackie

[outasite]

Jim could be worse we could have Corbyn he's not fake, just a dull thick communist prat hiding in the Labour party..

Personally I think if he was to get in, Corbyn would be ousted in a very short space of time by millenium, who would instal as their puppet the communist John McDonald the most dangerous man in politics, and we could say goodbye to the little freedom we have left in this country.

[Jimgward]

McDonald would never be a leader

[Jimgward]

So, the rich MPs are the ones to trust?

Like Osborne, Cameron, Johnson and their ilk? Hahahaha

[Jimgward]

I actually know very little about him.... so if he is in that category, then fine, add to the list.,

[Jimgward]

Mrs May now saying, back me or Brexit wont happen...

https://news.sky.com/story/theresa-may- ... n-11437460

[Dominic]

Actually I disagree. A lot of politicians are actually do care. They could be earning a much bigger coin in the private sector. You don't enter politics if you want to get rich.

Based upon the performance of many MPs I would not pay them in milk bottle tops. If they were to get a job in the private sector it would be because of the connections gained during their stay in parliament and not because of their capabilities. Just look at the mess they are making of Brexit and this applies whether they are remainers, brexiteers, labour, conservative, liberal etc. I would guess most MPs have never done a real job in their life. Unfortunately, as you say, the true carers are the ones are the ones that don't really need their MPs salaries or expenses, but they are a dying breed.

Rather than guess, why not look it up?

I picked a few MPs at random. Some we have all heard of. Some not.

________________________________________________________________


Jeremy Hunt (cons)

Early career
After university Hunt worked for two years as a management consultant at OC&C Strategy Consultants, and then became an English language teacher in Japan.[10]

On his return to Britain he tried his hand at a number of different entrepreneurial business ventures, including a failed attempt to export marmalade to Japan.[11] In 1991, Hunt co-founded a public relations agency named Profile PR specialising in IT with Mike Elms, a childhood friend.[10]

Hunt and Elms later sold their interest in Profile PR to concentrate on directory publishing. Together they founded a company known as Hotcourses in the 1990s, a major client of which is the British Council.[12] Hunt stood down as director of the company in 2009, however still retained 48% of the shares in the company which were held in a blind trust, before Hotcourses was sold in January 2017 for over £30 million to Australian education organisation IDP Education. He personally gained over £14 million from the sale.[12][13]

Vince Cable (libdem)

Economics career
Cable lectured for a time at the University of Glasgow and was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics, for a three-year period until 2004.[11] In 2016, Cable was made Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of Nottingham.[12]

From 1966 to 1968, he was a Treasury Finance Officer to the Kenyan Government.[13] In 1969, he visited Central America as a researcher on the recently formed Central American Common Market.[14]

From the early to mid-1970s, Cable served as First Secretary under Hugh Carless in the Latin American department of the Foreign Office. He was involved in a CBI trade mission to South America at this time, engaging in six months of commercial diplomacy.[15] In the late 1970s, he was special adviser to John Smith when the latter was Trade Secretary. He was an adviser to the UK Government and then to the Commonwealth Secretary-General Shridath "Sonny" Ramphal in the 1970s and 1980s.[16]

Cable served in an official capacity at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting of 1983 in Delhi, witnessing "private sessions at first hand" involving Indira Gandhi, then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Lee Kuan Yew, and Bob Hawke among others. He was also present at the summits of 1985, 1987, and 1989.[15] In the same period, he contributed to the Brandt Commission, the Palme Commission, and the UN's Brundtland Commission.[15]

From the 1980s onwards, Cable authored and co-wrote numerous publications in favour of globalisation, free trade, and economic integration such as Protectionism and Industrial Decline, The Commerce of Culture, and Developing with Foreign Investment.

Cable worked for the oil company Royal Dutch Shell from 1990 to 1997, serving as its Chief Economist between 1995 and 1997. His role at Shell came under scrutiny as the company was accused of playing a role in a turbulent era of Nigerian politics during the dictatorship of General Sani Abacha.[17][18]

In 2017, Cable became a strategic advisor on the World Trade Board for the annual World Trade Symposium co-organised by Misys and FT Live.[19][20]in

John Baron* (cons)

Military service
After university, Baron was commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers on 3 January 1984 as a second lieutenant (on probation).[2] His commission was confirmed and he was promoted to lieutenant with seniority from 8 August 1984.[3] He was promoted to captain on 8 February 1987.[4] He served in Northern Ireland, Cyprus and Germany.

On 3 January 1988, he transferred to the Regular Army Reserve of Officers.[5] This signalled the end of his military career but he remained liable to call up. He resigned his commission on 1 June 1997.[6]

Banking career
In 1987, he became a merchant banker: working as a fund manager then director of Henderson Private Investors Ltd (later Henderson Global Investors)[7] and Rothschild Asset Management.


James Frith** (lab)
Before being elected to Parliament,[7] he was CEO and Founder of All Together, a social enterprise providing careers education and guidance services to young people to help them get into work.

* picked at random while looking for a labour MP.
** random labour MP

[Varky]

Dominic,
I guessed because there are more important things to do in the day than to spend time searching for infinite details. I used the term 'guessed' so that I could be corrected if I m wrong. Are you correcting me? If not what was the point of your post?

[tonee]

Politicians are very brainy,what they lack is......sense