I imagine they'll conveniently forget about stuff like this...
Politicians seem to have their own 'law' and what they think's right and wrong is way off the scale of us mere mortals.

For example. The bloke who used to rent the flat below me was the Liberal Democrat counciller for Kentish Town. Odious little shit. Not getting involved in the politics of it all, because he didn't seem to bother with it too much either. Just spent all his day lounging round watching daytime TV which I could hear through the floorboards. Then he went off to do some higher education thing and his party agreed it was ok for him to continue being a conciller while he was furthing his education.

Didn't seem to matter that he was studying in Arizona... Made the papers, this did. Weird.
( SpankyHanky, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 16:32, 1 reply)

Yup! I actually personally know (from school/college) three sitting MPs, one of them in the Shadow Cabinet. Two of them are complete egomaniacal wasters. The third is actually a decent bloke, who seems to be there to serve his constituents - oxymoronic though it may seem, he's the Tory.
(b3ta_demeter, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 16:54, closed)

Here's the Arizon kid's full story
for anyone who wants a little more evidence those in authority constantly take the piss

www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23554309-camden-councillor-is-living-in-arizona.do

I'm not saying they all do, but certainly the one's I've come across have been, for want of a better more technical term, wankers.
( SpankyHanky, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 17:01, closed)