He's been known to, though I think he gets slightly more credibility for actually being a real scientist who understands things like evidence and falsifiability. He also has entrepreneurial experience and has worked a lot with Liberty, both of which are relevant to issues like this one.
Unfortunately, there are very few people with such a useful background serving as MPs in the House of Commons today, but an awful lot of people who are essentially career politicians and have never worked outside politics or closely related fields such as journalism.
Cambridge has an elected someone with common sense, an understanding of issues that are relevant and important to British industry and society as a whole?
It's a nice place, bar the epic amounts of students and associated noise and vomit, insane traffic jams, very odd traffic management, chav ridden Arbury, nazi bus drivers, extortionate public transport costs and epic levels of bike theft.
(I spent a good few years living in Cambridge).
Mind you saying that, I live in a rather nice and tidy bit of London near the river and it's just about the same but the cash is better.
