VOTED BEST EMBEDDED QUOTE IN RECENT POST BY A JURY OF ONE:
Scepticism is now so ingrained a reaction to the manoeuvrings of politicians that, if told the time by one of the breed, the automatic reaction would be to check it against the town hall clock. The noblest practitioners are defined by their last venal act; the basest are seen as setting the new paradigm. Echoing e.e. cummings’ famous pronouncement, the general perception now seems to be that ‘a politician is an ass upon which everything has sat but a man’. And it seems that, as the old folk wisdom has it, no matter who you vote for, the government always gets in.
Read the rest of this fine essay at Dick Jones' Patteran Pages.
