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Hazel Blears has today suggested that cabinet ministers should take time out to do what she calls ‘real jobs‘; after all we wouldn’t want Labour ministers completely losing touch with the real world…
But it occurs to me that if such a scheme were introduced it would result in quite a few Labour ministers having a ‘real’ job for the first time in their life. I wonder, would it take one or two hands to count the amount of private sector business experience in the cabinet? Hmm…
Posted by Shane Greer on May 13th, 2008 at 9:54 pm:
My point was more that the Labour Cabinet is perhaps a little too heavy on public sector experience and a little too light on private sector experience.
I’m pretty sure blogging isn’t a real job though. At least not for me!
Posted by Chris paul on May 15th, 2008 at 12:46 pm:
Private sector experience is there but the key requirement shouldn’t be split on public/private dichotomy but on useful/useless.
The MP I most want to see beaten next time out is the Lib Dem fool and hoaxer John Leech.
He worked in a call centre and flipping burgers and as a councillor. Is this in anyway more useful than teaching/managing in a university, working in a hospital, running a charity or union, even running a Town Hall.
That Derek Conway helped himself to a Charity Job (cats home!!) while between constituencies and he’s a useless, immoral piece of money grubbing Tory slime. So there.
You’d need both those hands and your feet I reckon Shane and to try very hard to stop your lips moving as you counted. OO-er that’s a bit uncalled for … as is this silly blog post.
(But I’m watching Tories and Lib Dems following similar careerist paths among the young uns. And I do note that being beaten roundly in three GEs so far and having to face the possibility of a fourth when Brown bucks up Tories are simply having to take jobs outside the bubble)
Posted by Brian on May 13th, 2008 at 7:44 pm:
Why do you regard “private sector business experience” as being a “real job”? Is being a PR man for a private company any more worthy than being a spin doctor for a political party? Is running a lap-dancing club a more relevant experience for a minister than running a school?
And is being a blogger a “real job”?