Ed Miliband at the Atos Scottish Headquarters?
One in seven MPs have never had a proper job, according to research.
And in addition to those who have absolutely no experience of working in the real world, many more have served only brief stints as lobbyists or public relations advisers before entering politics full-time.
The study by the House of Commons Library reveals a dramatic rise in the number of so-called professional politicians, whose numbers have increased almost four-fold over the past 30 years.
Ninety MPs have never held a job outside politics, against 20 in 1982.
The trend is led by Labour, which has twice as many MPs who have never worked outside politics as either the Conservatives or Liberal Democrats.
Labour leader Ed Miliband is among those who have never had a significant job outside politics.
Instead, he served a long apprenticeship as a special adviser to Gordon Brown.
Another is Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who worked for a year as a Brussels lobbyist and dabbled for a few months in journalism before taking a job with the European Commission.
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i’m not surprised in the least. we got a millionaire running the county who is giving away all our money faster than it can be printed. he claims dla for his son and has millions in the bank – now maybe if he means tested dla(say £100k+) i would try and keepan open mind.
i love mp’s say that they are special anddeserve the high salaries cos they are giving up a lucrative job… i say f=off u knarly twats update your cv and see how easy it is!!!!
He claimed DLA for his son … he died. He claimed that it gave him insight into what it’s like to go through the claims process. A great indicator of how out of touch he is. There’s a huge difference in a working class family facing the appeal process for DLA and a family with £33m in the bank claiming it because they are addicted to money.
and another dodo whos seems to banking on blair help to keep his hope alive of becoming pm but hasnt he listened to us with blair hes no chance and will be on the outside with this traitor jeff3
Im suprised the figures are so low i actually thought all of them bar one or two.
Even the ‘proper job previously’ lot are a billion miles from reality, i dont think they were ever without money in the family as a whole, i mean theyre all public school boys n girls, we dont have any real working classes within gov do we.
Labours an effing insult really, the lib dems sure as hell are, i mean wheres the liberal in em and wheres the democracy in em?
Torys are indeed all from money.
We can rest assured these parties are nothing of reality.
We need a working mans party dont we.
Thats got me thinking, it aint hard to start a party, it takes a high vote to win, im all for it. Give me a while to sort things out, coz it may be a good stint of publicity just by forming? What do you think guys?
See it as an experiment as yet, no pressures and just our voice being heard, theres no huge weight on our shoulders, we need stand up and fight i cant do it alone.
If we got the ball rolling? We could be heard,