"Politics is no longer the turf of men of vision who want the best for the county and its people, the men who take tough decisions with the long term prosperity of the nation have all gone to be replaced by selfish moral pigmys who just hang on to power to keep a job."
When was it ever any different?
Read Trollope, read a biography of Disraeli, or Churchill before 1935
they're all the same and always have been