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Ministers are appointed, aren't they? What prevents voted-for politicians from approving ministers with working and practical knowledge?
by guard-of-terra 13y ago
Ministers are appointed, aren't they?
What prevents voted-for politicians from approving ministers with working and practical knowledge?
- Blahah 13y agoPeople who have invested their life in excellence in a discipline other than politics are going to be beaten at politics by the power-hungry sociopaths who want to be politicians. So we always end up with unskilled, unethical people in government.
- guard-of-terra 13y agoThis wasn't the case during the most of the modern history.
- Bosence 13y ago"The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself" - Plato
- rjsw 13y agoMinisters are (mostly) appointed from the pool of voted-for politicians, who are nearly all lawyers or politics graduates.
- alan_cx 13y agoWell, there are hardly likely to do themselves out of a prime job, are they? But in a way they sort of do, they appoint advisers.... We could have a whole new official layer of experts, but that would be shot down by cries of bureaucracy. Initially I like the idea of expert opinion being mandatory. So, like with the drugs advice, I would like to see government forced to adopt their proposals. But would I be happy with police experts forcing legislation? Doctors, probably, but army? In the end, I have to come back to general population ignorance an prejudice. "We" have to smarten up, and vote accordingly. Its the only way I see.
- gsnedders 13y agoOr in the British case at least, appoint people from the Lords who have got their through contributions to their fields.