Iain is wrong on "useless" Tories
Iain Dale's Diary: It's Not Cameron Who Needs to Up His Game - It's The Shadow Cabinet....some of them are just useless...(at getting media coverage) which he links to Benedict Brogan's political blog which points out that of the Tory shadow cabinet 13 out of 29 listed are "part-timers" as they have outside business interests.
No, no, no Iain! They may well be useless but it isn't because they spend time in boardrooms, it is just that they are useless. Can Gordon Ramsey no longer fry an egg because on the telly? Can Richard Branson no longer be a professional Virgin because he is walking on in Bond films? Should Churchill given up because he needed to scribble articles to live? If you want something doing, give it to a busy man. The curse of modern politics are professional politicians who know nothing outside the Westminster bubble. We were far better governed when it was done by amateurs.
Now on the matter of that there is something wrong with the shadow cabinet, he is spot on.
