Oh heck, that's not what I said, no insults intended and apologies for any made. Look, this is just a bulletin board for chrissakes so realise that people post in a hurry and please dont jump at chance of accusing people of being insulting to whole groups of others, eek. Now you got me doing it :-)

Anyway my point is that politics in the main does not attract the smartest clever businesslike people. Money is one reason but it's not the only one, as I said before I mentioned money there is the faff/uncertain outcome of electioneering. This is borne out by the empirical evidence (the letter at beginning of this thread is an example) especially where you're dealing with junior ministers