Frankly, I really don't know who to vote for, and get mightily suspicious of anyone telling me it's obviously one or the other main party.
Many - perhaps most - politicians go into politics with some high ideals, but sooner or later lose their principles or their marbles. The latter happened to Margaret Thatcher, both to Tony Blair. After one term in power, maintaining power becomes their guiding principle, and they become more and more authoritarian. They become convinced of their own infallibility, and where once they might have listened to people, soon they merely cherry-pick opinions that support their own ideas (if they take note of any opinion but their own).
A good proportion of politicians become dominated with feathering their nests. It’s human nature, unfortunately. I used to think that politics attracted the best of humanity. Perhaps it does. But it’s even more attractive to the worst of humanity, and it brings out the worst in all of them. They become disillusioned with their principles, we become disillusioned with them.
Captain Smithy needs to think a bit wider.
Well, Grayling's comments to Timothy were a year ago. If a week is a long time in politics, a year is beyond living memory to a politician. But any of them will cheefully pi$$ on any convenient minority if it keeps the barking dogs of the Daily Mail at bay. Once the idea's in his mind, he'll trot it out if it will catch a neat headline. However we might be safe so long as the idea is also linked to boats, as there are far too many voluble yachties to worry about.