On Sat, 4 Jul 2009, Tony Polson wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jul 2009, Tony Polson wrote:

The days of conviction politicians have gone, I think.

Oh i don't know - i think we might yet get a few convictions out of the
espenses debacle!

I hope you're right! ;-)

But I yearn for those days when at least some politicians (but by no
means all) had the courage of their convictions and acted and voted
according to them.

To be fair, there are some - my MP, Jeremy Corbyn, is a good example, and
then you've got the like of Brian Coleman MLA, who acts on his principles,
but sadly has pretty foetid principles. The trouble is that people like
this are usually relegated to the back benches, while the people who
believe in nothing but themselves advance to the positions of power.

tom

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