Ed Miliband now even more unpopular than Nick Clegg

[-:Undertaker:-]

I'm not sure if you're aware but a career in politics is not the same as an A level in it where you just learn the terms and what they've been applied to - actually doing the jobs is experience in how a country's run, and there are these chaps called ministers who take charge of certain areas of expertise to help out. What exactly are you looking for in terms of experience in someone who wants to run the country? An ex-business middleman?

Oh yes, that would be much preferable compared to politics graduates who simply come out of university (after having studied politics) and who go straight into the research departments after which a decade or so they're parachuted into a safe seat and climb the greasy ministerial pole. What do they know other than theories and teenage idealism? Not much, and it's the same with academics: a lot of them are good at theories, but what use is a theory without having applied it in the real world? NILCH.

Professor Sowell has an interesting talk (bit long) on consequential knowledge and the centralisation of knowledge which you may find interesting.

Give me politicians with some life experience anyday, absolutely.

[FlyingJesus]

Someone with no knowledge of politics is better than someone with an extensive knowledge of politics? Righto. As for what such people know, pretty sure I said in that very post you just quoted that they're doing the jobs that teach you exactly how the country's run - it's not just theories and rhetoric, and for someone who keeps banging on about how much you hate emotive responses to issues you sure are promoting it a lot here by stating that "life experience" (a phrase with no meaning at all) is preferable to direct experience