Showing posts with label political class. Show all posts
Showing posts with label political class. Show all posts

Thursday, 20 December 2007

Cleggy signals the victory of the political class


So Nick Clegg ran out the winner beating Huhne to the leadership of the Lib Dems by a few hundred votes. Did you see his victory speech zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.


The really interesting thing about Clegg's victory (apart from the fact that he must be the first leader of a major party to be openly atheist) is that now all 3 parties have professional politicians as leaders.


Cameron is a political advisor and press man, Clegg an advisor and ex MEP, and Brown has been in politics since his teens with a brief stint as a journo.


I think it is actually rather sad. The people in charge may well be very bright and capable but they have never had what I would call a 'proper' job. They have never had to run anything - they have zero business experience and limited horizons outside of Westminster.


Career politicians are a bad bad thing.


ps - there have to be lots of jokes about Cleggy & Compo