[Houseboy]

Power can and does corrupt but the real reason that the powerful always seem corrupt is down to that old statement of fact: those who seek power are those who are least suited to it. The fact is we are in the same position now that we have been in for hundreds (thousands?) of years, the people who are born at the top do whatever they can to hold on to what they've got and those who achieve the climb to the top are usually self-serving and tend to pull the ladder up behind them. Thatcher should have been a shining example to all women with ambition but instead I believe she put the idea of women leaders back years and she hardly ever had any women in her cabinet.
The only thing that surprises me anymore in politics is that politicians actually seem to think that we believe that they give a damn. Whenever the country is in a poor state (when exactly that is and how often is another argument) the most sickening thing I think a politician can say is, "We are all in this together".
People need to stop labouring under the misapprehension that our leaders care about us or the country, they do just whatever is needed to retain power, that includes lying, cheating, squirming, kissing babies and latching onto the Olympics as though it was their idea.
Long live the revolution (a revolution is something that ultimately takes you back to where you started - so that's no bloody good either).