Tuesday, December 23, 2008

What do they look like?

One of the complaints about our current parliamentarians is that they do not look like us

Too male, too white, too middle class

As a bit of fun, I am wondering how like us they look in other respects too

Height – they always say the tall man beats the short one in elections. What about the women? Do we have any parliamentary Napoleons or Naomi Campbells?

Baldness – say no more

Blondeness – bottle or otherwise

Fatness – it would actually be a public service to publish the BMI of all MPs since they lecture the rest of us so much about this

Glasses – or are contact lenses de rigueur?

Intelligence – how many qualify to speak for the 50% of the population who have an IQ below 100?

Age – how many MPs qualify for a bus pass? How many use them regularly?

I also find myself wondering whether there was ever a time when the Lords was younger than the Commons