I've just finished a book which will be published in the States in September called How Not to Be a Politician. And it's about trying to explain how the kind of skills that get you elected as a politician get in the way of governing well. You're completely certainly in my experience as a politician, totally unqualified to make those kinds of policy decisions. It sounds like at least in the British system, you can't even necessarily pick the best expert because you have to pick from your MPs or the am I getting the terminology correct? I don't virtually nothing about your system. 100% because the politicians run everything.

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