While in some cases lawyers do not manage the transition well or wisely, what is the alternative to professional movement: career government lawyers chained to their desks?
Mr Barber said the government had "set the cruel and mistaken objective of getting rid of the deficit in just four years" - and he called for a "movement for the alternative" based on fair tax and growth.
The socialists want to offer voters an alternative to the two conservative blocs, but movement to link up with sympathizers in other parties has been agonizingly slow.
In the name of scientific detachment, they cited a possible alternative explanation that the features were caused by the movement of dry dust down a slope.
If the politics of ethnic diversity makes movement in a universalist, social democratic direction impossible in the U.S., then the alternative might be to mandate that all employers provide certain benefits to all employees, with no exceptions.