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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.
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>>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."
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>Define: 'Pontificate'

You know

To act like a pontiff; to express one’s position or opinions dogmatically and pompously as if it is absolutely correct.

like we all do here a lot of the time (me included btw)