UK PLC needs more variety in MP's Professions

A bit of follow up to my blog about a group of Tory MP's calling British workers idlers http://geraintw.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/british-workers-are-idlers.html I saw this article on the BBC web site http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19427545 about the UK economy needs infrastructure stimulus by the British Chambers of Commerce.

Reading through it I came acrosss a phase that rang true with me and related to the early blog entry.

The Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce, John Longworth, called on politicians to do more to help the economy grow. He told the BBC:"There are only a 150 MPs out of 650 that have ever been in business and only 30 have got any qualifications in science.

"We've now got a political class that's divorced from the reality of business and economics."

For a company and a country alike to be managed successfully, the management, in the case of the UK PLC the government must understand all parts of the organisation. Have come across the situation where engineers have started companies and the company as failed as the owner, who is an engineer does not understand marketing, finance etc, in other cases finance people have got hold of a company and ruined it as they don't understand engineering or the business sector the company operates in.

In the case of the UK PLC we need our government and the MP's who form it to understand all the business sectors that maintain and generate jobs and wealth. We need more MP's with differing business backgrounds, from engineering and science to form government as policies can not be formed that benefit the UK with out government understanding the people and businesses that make up the UK.

It is almost case for not having an elected house of Lords but rather a House of Lords made up from successful business men, trade union leaders, religious leaders who don't have to worry about getting re-elected and hence passing laws and policies to increase their re-election chances rather than making laws and policies for the long term future of the UK. The House of Lords should act as a check on the house of commons to prevent them damaging the long term health of the UK by making short term popular decisions.