If you can't take the time required to be an MP off from your job, you can't do the job of MP. It isn't a part-time gig. I wouldn't want someone taking a full patient load as a dentist and being an MP, they'll do at least one of them badly. If you have some requirement to retain certification, you can do some pro bono work to meet the minimum until you return, but you can't take payment.

I agree, though this is not true of everyone in his party and hopefully repeating calls for this kind of intervention will cause those others to ask the same questions.

Won't happen - but it is intructional to explore why.

Starmer serves the same interests as Farage.

That's why.

A similar analysis applies to the USA - and explains why the Democrats wont implement good legislation. Because they serve the same interests that the GOP does.

The "difference" between these parties is choreographed performance, to give the public a constrained choice at elections.

if you’re talking a reform that would make a reform win less possible, electoral
reform to avoid an FPTP situation might help, but if ghouls like reform are still winning the most votes, the UK is still screwed even with proportional representation (but after the tories fumbled everything for years and voters rewarded them for it, and labour doing nothing after that…)