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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: energy in UK
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 22:42:02 +1000
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On 18/04/2025 9:05 pm, Cursitor Doom wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 11:52:46 +0100, Martin Brown
> <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On 16/04/2025 09:20, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
>>> Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 14/04/2025 22:25, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
>>>>> Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2025-04-14, Liz Tuddenham <liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>> Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:

<snip>

>> One thing about politicians is that anyone who actually wants to do
>> their job should probably be debarred from doing it.
> 
> The major flaw in our current model of democracy as thing stand is the
> 'career politician' - who 30 or 40 years ago may have got into
> politics for the noblest of reasons, but has since had their
> principles completely compromised and has amassed considerable wealth
> from selling their influence to the highest bidder. We need to make
> the 'career politician' an historical curiosity.

Doesn't fit the only politician I know all that well. His principles 
still seem to be in fine shape - he was a minister for a few years, and 
while his career may have suffered from his unwillingness to do the 
wrong thing, he did pretty well.

We bought the book he wrote before he became a minister, and when it got 
damaged in a domestic disaster I was afraid that it was going to be hard 
to replace, but the local bookshop had plenty of copies - it was a set 
text in a Cambridge University course.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney