And as ever...when their arguments are weak they resort to name calling and reductio ad absurdum...
"Terrorist sympathiser" no! Open minded enough to consider and facilitate discussions to bring about peace - something which even thatcher & Blair did!
As opposed to selling arms to and rolling out the red carpet for the leaders of warmongering privileged nations - which is what the current tory party have no qualms about doing!
The choice needn't be between old Etonians who've lived their entire lives in a bubble of privilege and have rarely if ever done anything resembling a real job prior to entering politics the year after graduating from Oxbridge with degrees in PPE and an Asda retail worker who does understand the struggles of living on a tight budget, on a low wage but dealing with high living costs but doesn't have the education to understand the legislative process.
There's a middle ground!
But really why can't we have mps who have a decent but not privileged education, but also have experience in working in an "ordinary" job (NOT investment banking, business executive, high echelons of law or similar) and the mundane reality of living on a budget, paying the bills etc?
I don't think that's too much to ask at all!
And yes I'll admit that such people are few and far between even in the Labour Party! Though certainly more than in other parties from what I can tell.
I'd far rather have mps who are former teachers, nurses, social workers, factory workers, retail workers etc than career politicians who are if not PPE graduates then law graduates who've gone straight into politics from uni!
In terms of the minutiae of understanding the legislative process to propose and implement policy, then surely a relatively short course for new mps can be part of assisting with this and that is also the job of the very many well qualified civil servants who work continually in parliament administratively supporting mps (though of course that isn't without issue either, as nobody is unbiased and these people are unelected but have the power, access and influence to effect change - as anyone who has experience in the area or even has watched "yes minister" would know! But then no system is perfect)
Ideally we'd have an auditor as chancellor, a criminal lawyer as home sec, a teacher as sec for education, a dr as sec for health etc
Personally (and I've said this before quite a few times) I think ANYONE wanting to stand as an MP should spend AT LEAST 6 months on minimum benefits living in social housing in the poorest postcode in their proposed constituency. To give them at least a slight insight into life for their worst off constituents. I could even be tempted to add to that they have to do something like spend that time in a wheelchair or with blindfold on to experience some physical limitations too.
There's been a couple of tv shows over the years where MPs "experienced" life as "a single mum" etc but they were for very short periods and frankly spectacular failures as they weren't stringently monitored to ensure they stuck to the rules!