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More troubling for myself, is the lack of candidates attracted to politics from the modern professions relating to technology and commerce, whether recruited from humble or privileged backgrounds. Conventionally, I suspect family affluence and traditions largely aids the typical MP career process, primarily through fees for the desirable independent private schools, or as a poor second via neighbourhoods containing best performing State schools, so giving access to the more prestigious universities. Thereafter politically minded candidates seemingly move predominantly onto Oxbridge mainly to study PPE, Law or arts degrees, then to the traditional professions or increasingly directly into earmarked junior political posts. While the Russell Group ranks next, ostensibly mostly only as second best for the privately educated Oxbridge/other ancients spill over. The trend appears most pronounced in the Tory party and perhaps relates to cautionary social groups dominating constituency parties in charge of selecting MP candidates. If a little less so, the other traditional main parties seem similarly captured by this conventional social mobility hindrance. Perhaps the UK should establish a few excellent/prestigious Technical Universities supportive of high quality industrial R&D organisations and companies to help provide critical mass for better social development of this kind potential MP candidate, so necessary for improved parliamentary balance.

Diversity of intellectual and professional background is certainly desirable, but a technocracy would be just another form of oligarchy, and it is the latter than is tearing what's left of the three-nations consensus and our social fabric to tatters. What we need is a Parliament whose members represent the vast diversity--in philosophy, experience, culture and socio-economic background--of the UK. Only then could we say, honestly, that it is "representational." The only thing worse than a Parliament filled with elitist, privileged fleebs who have no compassion for the unfortunate and no sense of the troubles of ordinary citizens would be a Parliament filled with philistine technocrats who think that arts are a waste of time, only STEM subjects matter and that society can be "socially-engineered" towards a better future. But things will never change as long as we have this outdated, undemocratic FPTP voting system, that is for certain.