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Ahhhhthat special breed of individual. Found predominately tangled in a web of lies, they gravitate towards political opportunism like the proverbial flies round a cow pat.
In the beginning, they were men of wisdom; of fibre; of honour. They championed the common man with heart and fervour; and if they ever slipped, the ethically high standard bearing opposition were there to keep em honest.

A visiting English professor is conducting several lectures on these fine protagonists.
Turns out they're not like that at all! Gadzooks!
They still claim to have our best interests at heart; and sure enough if best interests' means filling their pockets and taking tax payer funded jaunts around the globe, then they deserve medals.
And the rot has sunk so deep that the once upright opposition now are like the manipulators they once sought to keep true.
The typical opposition leader, bereft of any alternative policies, now resorts to banal dirt-slinging and infantile denial.
Recently, one such (insert chosen adjective here) crowed with righteous belief if we were elected, we would performance-base MP's wages'.
Further, he claimed (now on a wave of the earlier righteousness) that, if they don't make the grade, they'll get docked wages even sacked'. Oh, he was roaring along by the end!
Well, isn't that fantastic? Judging by the ineptitude of one's average politician, that should cut half the average cabinet. And we'll have the cream of the crop left, I suppose? Foolproof.
Except, what actually would happen would be more akin to they would be voted in, screw up as per usual, then cover up and misdirect. A senior member would strenuously defend well, we really can't just arbitrarily withhold funds from the minister. He did his best, but there were extenuating circumstances'.
On he'd rattle with misdirection and avoidance until we all get bored. Soon it would fade away as the next crisis superseded it.
I mean, does anybody, seriously believe that anything politicians say during election time (especially election time but pretty much always) is money in the bank'.

They so obviously say what they think we want to hear, get elected, and subsequently ignore it all.
And every time the voters fall for it. I am often left stunned at the gullibility of the average voter.
Politicians should be wise and intelligent; their aim should be the competent management of the country they represent. Instead, nowadays, they appear to do nothing but fill their pockets and manipulate the public to extend their own

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