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>>The idea of the second chamber being appointed still has merit.
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>I would only amend that to read "the idea of the second chamber being appointed *by me* still has merit <s>
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>> A lot of politicians have never done anything else and have no experience of industry or science etc.
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>I think it should be required that no one can run for any public office until they have actually done something in real life for a minimum of 20 years.
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>>I sometime wonder if the second house should be appointed by some sort of random draft that would hopefully reflect the makeup of the nation.
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>William F. Buckley used to say he'd rather be governed by a random selection of 100 names from the Boston phone book than the faculty at Harvard.

We have program called Question time. Panel of politicians and the odd well known face.
When they pontificate on spending cuts etc I'd like someone in the audience to ask them "put you hand up if these cuts would impact on you in anyway."