> I cannot understand how a party can come into office, say they're going to clean up politics, pass a law demanding transparency in party funding, then perpetually break the damn law they themselves passed.
I can.
They're in power.
It is the purpose of political parties to seek power like a terrier chasing fter a steak and then hang on to it like barnacles.
And rationalising it? Well either the pooch is screwed and Cameron's in next time round anyway, so hey, who cares... or they'll win anyway and the ends will continue to justify the means.
Nobody important will go down for this - it's too much like rocking the boat.
Bloody disgrace, but this is what you get in a country with a professional "political class" and an effective two-party state. And no, the LibDems couldn't change this. They're an irrelevance. Britain is essentially a two-party state, and apart from the first third of the 20th century essentially always was and always will be.
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I can.
They're in power.
It is the purpose of political parties to seek power like a terrier chasing fter a steak and then hang on to it like barnacles.
And rationalising it? Well either the pooch is screwed and Cameron's in next time round anyway, so hey, who cares... or they'll win anyway and the ends will continue to justify the means.
Nobody important will go down for this - it's too much like rocking the boat.
Bloody disgrace, but this is what you get in a country with a professional "political class" and an effective two-party state. And no, the LibDems couldn't change this. They're an irrelevance. Britain is essentially a two-party state, and apart from the first third of the 20th century essentially always was and always will be.