As Matov says - and regardless of our differing politics - they are all pretty rotten - not all but most are out for something they wouldn't get in the real working world.
The system needs sorting out root and branch by some real independents otherwise none of this is going to get any better and the losers are us - the general population - who have to suffer these absolute numpties running the Country.
I would add to the Politicians all of those in the civil service as well.
A parliamentary Private Secretary issues an invitation to party at no 10 during lockdown.
He is stupid as well as arrogant and anyone who attended is just as bad so why do we have to pay his/their wages - he/they must be completely devoid of intelligence to do something so stupid.
Leaving parties - good God - what were they thinking?
The list of what is wrong is colossal through all parties and the politicised House of Lords and the Civil Service.
I despise the majority of them and wonder sometimes how this Country functions.

I am sure that Mrs Thatcher still does - as she always did - divide opinion - but if nothing else she did work hard for the Country.
Forget whether you agreed with her decisions and policies, she worked hard with her husband alongside her.
Not for her off earning squillions afterwards like Lord Blair either.
She was pretty much the last of any decent person and their type - although there were still some good Politicians after her on all sides of the house.
John Major sort of - but he shagged Edwina so from him onwards it has all gone downhill with the job motto nowadays being - "ask not what I can do for my Country but what I can do for me, me and me"!

Gardner is quite clean on this, clearing it with the security services and declaring it properly.

But I don't like him, so sack him anyway.

Still don't see why he accepted it I am not bothered about the spy bit (I take his word he didn't know) its just wrong. This is the problem its not wrong by their rules which they make to suit themselves.

One more point

Likely so expect stories all over about different mps.
As you say it's how it works.

I know of Labour Councillors, who are very much in the socialist camp. Yet they own big rural detached houses and very much inclined towards "not in my backyard" policies.

Name me any politician who doesn't do that ?

Corbyn just didn't know what was acceptable to the public. And banging someone with a face that launched 1000 ships, or a bulldog chewing a wasp, was never going to be widely seen as acceptable

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