Petition Improvement in quality of parlamentary candidates

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No one should be allowed to stand for parliament unless they have had a job outside of politics for at least 15 years . Unemployment would count as employment for these purposes. Working for a political party as a political advisor or as a lobbyist would not count as employment.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

4 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 4 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 31 August 2012
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