Do we think people are learning that Politicians of all colours are self serving wankers yet?
And the worst type of politicians are the ones that claim to be of the people for the people, but are really just self serving wankers like all the rest of them?
I think there's a certain type of person who decides that they want to make a career out of politics. I'm not saying that they don't initially have good intentions one way or another, but at some point it seems to get subsumed by the desire for personal power/glory/recognition - at least for a significant proportion of them. Maybe that's inevitable as the top positions become within reach for the ones who make it that far.
The likes of Johnson and Rees-Mogg (and many others, some not Tories) are incredibly privileged. I simply don't believe their main motivation is to improve things for working-class Joe, because they've never lived in his world or even anywhere near it. They've never been in middle-class Joe's world either, with a mortgage, a job paying £35,000 a year, two kids, a semi-detached house, a modest car and two weeks a year in the Canaries.
I have more respect for those who spend years toiling away as a local councillor somewhere, for not much reward.