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Thread #162855   Message #3899843
Posted By: Iains
15-Jan-18 - 04:22 PM
Thread Name: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
Subject: RE: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
The more confusion sown over human right in the UK, the better the legal profession like it, More fuss, more fees.

How many MP's have had prior careers in the legal profession?
According to a freedom of information request it is a secret!

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/mps_that_are_barristers_or_solic

YOU GOV. states: Jul 24, 2014 - British people want fewer lawyers and more doctors, scientists and factory workers in Parliament

"MPs With Legal Backgrounds Increases 21/05/2015. Earlier this week, we revealed the Cabinet ministers who had a legal background. Now, thanks to research by BPP University, it has also been revealed that the number of MPs with a legal background has increased by 40%. Wow! 119 of 650 MPs (18.3%) have ..." (full article linked below)

https://www.allaboutlaw.co.uk/law-news/mps-with-legal-backgrounds-increases

"And God said: "Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on me. And let there be lawyers, so people don't blame everything on Satan."

"LAWYER: A professional advocate hired to bend the law on behalf of a paying client; for this reason considered the most suitable background for entry into politics."

"There's no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth."