” … politics has always been a dirty business, a world of treachery, narcissism and self-interest. And, yes, of course the bear-pit of Westminster has never been a place for shrinking violets.
Yet something has changed.
In the past few decades, too many MPs have stopped seeing themselves as representatives of their home areas, or even as representatives of larger social and political movements.
Instead, they see themselves merely as individuals, fighting for promotion and survival like characters in a box-set drama.
Parachuted into provincial constituencies, unmoored from the constituencies these men and women are meant to represent, they fancy themselves as real-life equivalents of Francis Urquhart, the Machiavellian operator in the BBC’s celebrated political thriller House Of Cards, which has now been remade in an even bloodier and more implausible American version.”
East Devon Watch 