Poor politicians are a real pain in the class

JUST what is happening to our political class? Fifteen people, including ex-PM Rishi Sunak's former aide, have been arrested in connection with alleged betting offences over the date of the last election. Bangladesh has issued an arrest warrant for Tulip Siddiq, though both deny any wrongdoing. And disgraced former Labour MP Mike Amesbury is currently subject to a suspended sentence for common assault.

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How could standards have fallen so low? Of course there has always been political wrongdoing (the Profumo affair, for a start) and many MPs remain extremely decent people. I'm fortunate to count a number of them as friends. But there is a sense that many are all in it for them-selves, cannot be trusted, if they said it was sunny then you'd grab the nearest brolly and so on.

Then there is the incompe-tence shown by the rest of them. Rachel from Accounts didn't under-stand that, if you put a tax on jobs, as she did in her abysmal budget, then there are clearly going to be fewer jobs.