Good news!

[WTFH]

So you think there is no difference between Rosena Allin-Khan putting in a few shifts during the pandemic which also helped her to keep her GMC and other registrations, and Geoffrey Cox QC working in the British Virgin Islands for them against the UK Foreign Office?

No, there's a massive difference. Geoffrey is a Tory. As well as working in the BVIs, he also worked for the BVIs from his office in parliament, which is all perfectly acceptable to Hooters.

[d000hg]

Sounds sensible on the face of it, but one should also consider the likely effect a restriction like that would have on (1) the quality of applicants to be MPs, and (2) the breadth of experience they collectively have (or are supposed to)

The snag is that by prohibiting second jobs, you would likely end up with a lot of low grade local government type functionaries with no experience or inclination to do anything other than meddle in peoples' personal affairs, especially if the pay and pensions etc were not excellent.

Or maybe there'd be space for people who actually care about the job, rather than seeing it as a means to personal gain.

How would "no second job" work for people who own their own business? The idea of someone being successful then wanting to put something back as a public servant is quite common.