Dugher is filling his boots on the gambling lobby / no-longer-fat Tom Watson did his book and is running a sort of law firm / charity consultancy hybrid thing / ten of them have gone to "gaol"as Dux would have it. Trade union roles?
If you're a professional, you just go back to being a lawyer / doctor / whatever, no?
People find this difficult. Lawyers who are managing partners or in non-fee-earning management roles really struggle to go back to fee-earning afterwards.
In a way, the issue here is people becoming MPs too young. It should be a job people take on in mid 40s or 50s and do for 10-20 years.
If you're a professional, you just go back to being a lawyer / doctor / whatever, no?
People find this difficult. Lawyers who are managing partners or in non-fee-earning management roles really struggle to go back to fee-earning afterwards.
In a way, the issue here is people becoming MPs too young. It should be a job people take on in mid 40s or 50s and do for 10-20 years.
this re the age thing, for a lot of MPs these days in both main parties it looks like any career they've had before was just a stop-gap till they fulfilled their dream of becoming an MP, rather than something to be done after a decent stint at a previous job.
That said, I get paid multiples of an MP's salary and have none of the absolutely ridiculous pressure and exposure they have. I think being an MP is an amazing vocation, but having read and listened to many accounts of it as a job, including recent ones, anyone who chooses to do it for buttons and in the current climate of stab vests and tabloids is genuinely mental. Which - as Isabel Hardman concluded - one of the reasons we get the sh1t MPs we do.
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If you're Ian Lavery probably steal some money from union funds meant for sick miners.
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Or steal from the MGN Pension Fund.
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Why would their party affiliation make any difference?
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To be fair, the lack of any post-MP guaranteed dolla is partly why we're getting so many more utter mentallists as MPs. Who sane would do this job?
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If you're a professional, you just go back to being a lawyer / doctor / whatever, no?
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Dugher is filling his boots on the gambling lobby / no-longer-fat Tom Watson did his book and is running a sort of law firm / charity consultancy hybrid thing / ten of them have gone to "gaol"as Dux would have it. Trade union roles?
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I wonder the same re the SNP
some will be fine but who tf is going to hire mairi black now the third sector in Scotland is losing funding?
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To be fair, the lack of any post-MP guaranteed dolla is partly why we're getting so many more utter mentallists as MPs. Who sane would do this job?
says city lawyer drone unable to understand that some people prefer to do more interesting or worthwhile jobs for less money than legal paper pushing
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People find this difficult. Lawyers who are managing partners or in non-fee-earning management roles really struggle to go back to fee-earning afterwards.
In a way, the issue here is people becoming MPs too young. It should be a job people take on in mid 40s or 50s and do for 10-20 years.
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If you're a professional, you just go back to being a lawyer / doctor / whatever, no?
Worth asking Dominic Raab for his views?
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Well Tony Blair went off to resolve the Middle East, so that's an option apparently.
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Rob Cannon30 Oct 23 15:08
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People find this difficult. Lawyers who are managing partners or in non-fee-earning management roles really struggle to go back to fee-earning afterwards.
In a way, the issue here is people becoming MPs too young. It should be a job people take on in mid 40s or 50s and do for 10-20 years.
this re the age thing, for a lot of MPs these days in both main parties it looks like any career they've had before was just a stop-gap till they fulfilled their dream of becoming an MP, rather than something to be done after a decent stint at a previous job.
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Appear on Strictly Come Dancing? Just ask Ed Balls.
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I'm not a city lawyer.
That said, I get paid multiples of an MP's salary and have none of the absolutely ridiculous pressure and exposure they have. I think being an MP is an amazing vocation, but having read and listened to many accounts of it as a job, including recent ones, anyone who chooses to do it for buttons and in the current climate of stab vests and tabloids is genuinely mental. Which - as Isabel Hardman concluded - one of the reasons we get the sh1t MPs we do.
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they get NED and advisory board and hedge fund and political consultancy jobs like tories do I hope this help
George Osborne’s post politics career is almost exactly what you’d imagine a labour chancellor to do
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Tristram Hunt runs the V&A.
David Miliband runs International Rescue.
John Reid was a director at Celtic and a honorary Professor at UCL
James Purnell become Director of Strategy at the BBC but was removed after failed Tory candidate Tim Davie took over.
Ed Balls was on Strictly.
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snowfoxberry30 Oct 23 15:16
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Well Tony Blair went off to resolve the Middle East, so that's an option apparently.
That's going well
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David Gauke went back to legal consultancy and public affairs. I imagine decent MPs could do this sort of thing quite easily regardless of party.
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Precisely Iamlong, although I suppose to be completely fair, we don't know how bad it would have been without his input.
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Falconer went to gibson dunn didnt he?
they certainly were!!!
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They certainly don’t have to do timesheets or report to the bored.
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