According to this post on the Government website, John Bercow would like to encourage more engineers and scientists to become MPs which would clearly make a huge difference to the way in which Parliament works. The big barrier however is not a lack of interest by engineers and scientists in the setting of public policies, but rather the appalling way in which political parties behave, spending millions of our pounds and hundreds of their hours rubbishing one another because they wear different colour rosettes at election time, yet ignoring the way in which such attitudes make the rest of the nation despair and write off these well paid public, so called servants.

A classic case is the way in which large numbers of MPs ask Government Ministers the same questions month in and month out and then move on as if the purpose of the question was merely to get their names onto Hansard. Any engineer or scientist would take the trouble to research the questions that had previously been asked on the same subject and instead of simply asking the same question, they would instead  build on the work of their colleagues and push harder into the subject.

If John Bercow is right that Parliament wishes more Engineers and Scientists to join the ranks of MPs, then they may need to open up the system to allow people who are committed to improving the way in which the nation is managed but lacking confidence in the party political system to enter the House of Commons.