Quote Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr View Post
So in other words you want a limited and technocratic government?

I would rather have a parliament that represents the broad spectrum of society. If you think about all the issues they have to deal with, you would need a lot more than just legal expertise to pass effective laws.
The first would be better. A bunch of people who have no idea of how to do the job they are paid for is not my idea of effective government. I don't second Lenin's idea that "every cook can run the country". The USSR had tried to implement this tenet for seventy years and see what it led to.