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1774: they blew tobacco smoke up drowning victims' backsides to revive them, and the kits hung along the Thames like lifebuoys.
1863: they sold cocaine wine as a daily tonic, and a pope pinned a gold medal on it.
1898: they sold heroin as a cough medicine, and spooned it into coughing children.
1918: they sold radium water as a health drink, and the millionaire who drank 1,400 bottles was buried in a lead-lined coffin with most of his jaw gone.
1921: they put lead in petrol, and Britain kept it in the pumps until 2000.
1930s: they X-rayed children's feet in shoe shops, and kids queued to watch their toes wiggle on the screen.
1940s: they rubbed mercury teething powder into babies' gums, and about 1 in 500 of those babies was poisoned.
1946: they sold cigarettes on the line that more doctors smoked their brand, and put a man in a white coat on the advert.
1949: they gave the lobotomy a Nobel Prize, and doctors went in through the eye socket with an ice pick.
1952: they sold a cigarette filter made of asbestos as the greatest health protection in smoking history, and smokers drew it into their lungs with every puff.
1957: they sold thalidomide to pregnant women for morning sickness, and around 10,000 babies were born with missing or shortened limbs.
1960s: they sold margarine as the heart-healthy fat, and spread trans fat on a generation's toast.
1996: they sold OxyContin as barely addictive, and started an overdose epidemic.
1999: they sold Vioxx for sore joints, and pulled it five years later after tens of thousands of heart attacks.
2026: they're selling seed oil as the heart-healthy fat, and it's in almost every packet in your kitchen.
Every one of these came with an expert's blessing and the same total certainty.
The people telling you which fat to fear today sit in the same chairs as the ones who put radium in the water and a doctor on the cigarette packet, and they're every bit as sure.
"The experts recommend it" has the longest body count in medicine.
David Robertson retweeted
Last year's budget caused thousands of job losses as taxes on gambling were increased. If the same happens this year, we'll see more redundancies.
Labour MPs who cheer this attack on jobs deserve all the criticism they get.
My latest 👇
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David Robertson retweeted
The foundational flaw of the climate narrative is the deliberate omission of context.
We were told current temperatures and CO₂ levels were unprecedented, yet geological history says the exact opposite. Earth has been locked in the Late Cenozoic Ice Age for the past 34 million years, triggered by the glaciation of Antarctica. On geological timescales, the world's climate state is overwhelmingly driven by tectonic shifts and changing ocean currents.
These ice age conditions intensified 2.58 million years ago into the Quaternary glaciation, characterised by long, brutal glacial periods of around 100,000 years, interrupted by temporary, warmer interglacials like the Holocene we live in today.
We live in a far cooler global regime than 90% of the past 541 million years of the Phanerozoic Eon. Global average temperatures today sit around 15°C - markedly cooler than the Phanerozoic average of approximately 24°C, which historically swung between cold glacial lows and thermal peaks over 30°C.
By historical standards, we are living in unusually cold times. The alarming predictions of extreme warming - such as projections of up to 5°C based on high-emissions models - are increasingly recognised across scientific literature as implausible upper bounds rather than realistic baselines.
Atmospheric CO₂ is the indispensable foundation for photosynthesis, agriculture and the rise of complex life on Earth. Rather than suffering from an excess of carbon, the modern Earth has emerged from a long-term geological carbon shortfall - a prolonged period during which lower CO₂ levels contributed to global aridity and the retreat of ancient green biomass.
An increase in atmospheric CO₂ represents life's biological resurgence. Acting as a natural fertiliser, it stimulates plant growth, improves water-use efficiency, and expands the planet's green canopy - a transformation clearly visible from satellite observation.
The natural world has endured genuine, cataclysmic upheavals in the deep past. The great extinction events and climate shifts of history - such as the Carnian Pluvial Episode or the End-Permian transition - played out over tens of thousands to millions of years. Yet through every transformation, the biosphere adapted, survived and ultimately thrived. These events became opportunities for new life forms to emerge, such as the dinosaurs, and us.
When the planet experienced sustained greenhouse conditions, life did not collapse - it flourished. During the Eocene Epoch 56 million years ago, palm trees grew in the Arctic, permanent ice disappeared from the poles and lush rainforests blanketed much of the planet's landmass.
Far from a barren wasteland, the Eocene was a time of astonishing biological abundance, dense vegetation and a massive evolutionary radiation of mammalian life.
The lessons of history show us that warmer conditions and elevated carbon levels are not the forces of destruction; historically, they have been the catalysts for biological growth and global greening.
IMAGE: Global mean surface temperature curve over the past 485 million years of the Phanerozoic Eon, showing Earth's current position within a deep icehouse regime. Data adapted from paleoclimate reconstructions by C.R. Scotese et al. (2021) and E.J. Judd et al. Science (2024).
David Robertson retweeted
These are Dave Ramsey’s comments about going cashless. No one has explained it better. He brings up several situations most of us had never considered. For those who may not know, Dave Ramsey is an American radio personality who offers financial advice.
No cash means absolutely NO CASH. So try this… the next store you go in and order a drink or want to buy their product and they tell you “card only”, walk away. I have done this out of principle, and will continue to do so.
Dave Ramsey repost:
HERE'S WHAT NO CASH ACTUALLY MEANS:
A cashless society means no cash. Zero. It doesn’t mean mostly cashless and you can still use a ‘wee bit of cash here & there’. Cashless means fully digital, fully traceable, fully controlled. I think those who support a cashless society aren’t fully aware of what they are asking for. A cashless society means:
* If you are struggling with your mortgage in a particular month, you can’t do an odd job to get you through.
* Your child can’t go & help the local farmer to earn a bit of summer cash.
* No more cash slipped into the hands of a child as a good luck charm or from their grandparent when going on holidays.
* No more money in birthday cards.
* No more piggy banks for your child to collect pocket money & to learn about the value of earning.
* No more cash for a rainy day fund or for that something special you have been putting $20 a week away for.
* No more little jobs on the side because your wages barely cover the bills or put food on the table.
* No more charity collections.
* No more selling bits & pieces from your home that you no longer want/need for a bit of cash in return.
* No more cash gifts from relatives or loved ones.
What a cashless society does guarantee:
* Banks have full control of every single penny you own.
* Every transaction you make is recorded.
* All your movements & actions are traceable.
* Access to your money can be blocked at the click of a button when/if banks need ‘clarification’ from you, which will take about 3 weeks, a thousand questions answered & five thousand passwords.
* You will have no choice but to declare & be taxed on every dollar in your possession.
* The government WILL decide what you can & cannot purchase.
* If your transactions are deemed in any way questionable, by those who create the questions, your money will be frozen, ‘for your own good’.
Forget about cash being dirty. Stop being so easily led. Cash has been around for a very, very, very long time & it gives you control over how you trade with the world. It gives you independence.
If you are a customer, pay with cash. If you are a shop owner, remove those ridiculous signs that ask people to pay by card.
Cash is legal tender; it is our right to pay with cash. Banks are making it increasingly difficult to deposit cash.
Please open your eyes. Please stop believing everything you are being told. Almost every single topic in today’s world is tainted with corruption & hidden agendas.
Pay with cash & please say no to a cashless society while you still have the choice.
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The Great British Decay.
Britain’s infrastructure is not just quietly declining, it is slow-motion collapse based on local and national government neglect - a mixture of incompetence and deliberate asset stripping. The British public are being gaslit into paying higher taxes for national decline while feathering the nests of the corporate donors of whatever government is neglecting to serve in our best interests while in power.
Local roads carry an £18.6 billion repair backlog. There are over a million potholes. A sort of nationwide obstacle course that extracts tens of billions a year in damaged cars, lost time and the anger of anyone who has just heard their car suspension make a noise it shouldn’t because the car was swallowed by a unseen pothole covered by a puddle from a blocked road drain that the local council couldn’t be arsed to fix.
The water network leaks nearly a fifth of the supply. Much of it was installed when Queen Victoria was still on the throne and appears to have been designed on the assumption that water pipes, like the monarchy, would last forever. Replacement rates imply that governments expect some of them to keep working for a thousand years.
Meanwhile, water sewage spills have become so routine that “there’s been another discharge” barely qualifies as news. Water companies sold off 39 reservoirs over 34 years and built none. Instead, the Labour government has decided that the urgent national priority is spending £22 billion on carbon-capture machines and destroying energy and water supply with massive resource guzzling data centres. Hosepipe bans and wood burner restrictions for us, but energy and water guzzling for the tech giants.
Gas storage is among the lowest in Europe. Oil refineries are shut. But hey, let’s plaster solar panels on prime farmland and pay £billions to turn the wind turbines off because we haven’t got the infrastructures to use the energy.
Governments would rather pay Norway £billions to import oil and gas from the same sea that they decided to switch off the taps to tick a net zero virtue box.
Road signs aren’t cleaned and maintained regularly. Road drains are blocked and clogged with debris. Rubbish isn’t collected until overspills. Weeds on the pavement are apparently a bold rewilding strategy by local councils. On the railways, about a quarter of delays are caused by the infrastructure itself.
Projects run late, over budget and frequently end up counterproductive or much smaller than initially advertised. Short political cycles, fragmented delivery, laziness and bureaucratic planning systems that treat a new reservoir or blocked road drain as a wasteful inconvenience.
We have successive governments who prefer empty TikTok videos of politicians eating crisps rather than actually giving a shit to fix a rotting country.
Other countries still treat infrastructure as a basic test of competence rather than an optional extra. Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland score highly for the unglamorous reason that their trains run, their roads don’t swallow cars and their water stays inside the pipes. Japan’s high-speed rail network remains a byword for innovation and reliability.
Britain is a country that once built a powerhouse Industrial Revolution, but now struggles to keep the lights on, food on the shelves, water in the pipes and the tarmac on the road. Governments appear to be more concerned with giving our tax money to Ukraine, free hotels to illegal migrants and digital ID surveillance to monitor its own citizens rather than fulfil the unglamorous habits that use our our tax money towards effective public service: long-term maintenance, infrastructure improvements, cost discipline and the willingness to finish things on time and built infrastructures to last for future generations.
A fish rots from the head up. And the British infrastructure rot is headed by decades of wilful neglect from our governments.
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Why I'm optimistic 👇
For twelve years I've been banging on about this and now people are finally seeing it, evolving communism, cultural Marxism or whatever label you choose, it's all the same.
The EU was never just about trade. It's a communist style structure. Centralised control. Unelected people at the top telling elected people at the bottom what they can do. You vote one way, they ignore you, and carry on anyway. How many times have we seen that?
People ask how did we get here? It didn't happen overnight. It's generational.
Go back to the sixties. You had all those left wing students demonstrating. CND, sit-ins, banners, shouting down anyone who disagreed. At the time we thought it was just students being students.
Those indoctrinated students? They became the professors. They became the teachers, the lecturers, the BBC producers, the civil servants, the judges, the Archbishops, the people running the charities. The EU commission, NATO bosses, NGOs, UN officials etc
And they taught the next generation. And that generation taught the next one. That's three generations now.
There is a famous saying from the German student leader Rudi Dutschke. He talked about t
The Long March through the institutions. And that's exactly what happened.
You don't need to attack a public building with violence . That's too obvious. You just need to attack all the things within it.
You attack the family - tell people the family is outdated, that mothers shouldn't be at home, that children belong to the state.
You create such a costly environment, where buying bricks and mortar is impossible, a family today can't but a house with two wages, that keeps the mother at work, the child in third party hands for 8 hours a day in formative years.
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world, who's rocking your cradle.
You attack the church - tell people faith is bigotry, close the churches, laugh at Christians while protecting religions with very like-minded controlling doctrines.
You attack the schools - stop teaching history properly, stop teaching right from wrong, teach children to be ashamed of their own country.
Encourage people not to work, to be dependent on the state. If the state controls you're income, it controls what you spend it on .
You can never get out, or grow.
You attack law and borders - tell people that a country that controls its border is racist.
By the time you have done all that, you still have the same buildings - Parliament, the courts, the schools, the churches - but they mean something completely different. They have been hollowed out from the inside.
That is what the EU is. It's the perfect vehicle for it. Laws made far away, that you can't vote out, that overrule your own courts and your own Parliament. It's control by committee. That's not democracy. That's communism by another name.
Even worse quangos that control the news you see, the products you buy, the food you eat. Additives that benefit a few fed to the whole
Nation despite health issues
I voted Brexit because I saw it. A lot of us did. Some places voted 70% for less immigration and for control back, and we were told we were wrong.
But now with AI we can look it up ourselves. We don't have to take their word for it anymore. We can follow the money, see who funds what, who sits on what board, and we can share it with each other.
They can't hide it anymore,
Musk opened The Twitter Files and showed the world what's really going on, we've information is power we have direct access to it and have grown in strength.
Their Long March has been uninterrupted for decades, be patient, keep talking , keep sharing, they'll never reach the finish line.
That's why I'm optimistic ❤️
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David Robertson retweeted
If you told me gambling could be forced offshore by today's breed of politician and a few misguided activists? Basing their arguments almost entirely on junk statistics, paid for by the operators themselves. (!)
That huge gambling company models could be butchered overnight with mass job losses, I'd have said that was impossible
I grew up in a vibrant gambling country, where the word harm hadn't been invented nor any reality. The scale of harm being discussed these days (1 death a day due to gambling, 1.4m severely problem gamblers, 80,000 child problem gamblers. All hopeless exaggeration) is at odds to the remorseless lack of growth in the actual numbers as compiled by dedicated statistic professionals (1 suicide a year, 300,000 known problem gamblers, zero interaction of children and licensed betting companies)
The argument is mobile phones made the situation worse. But it isn't in the numbers. Where is this fictional growth? In the heads of activists
Unless big betting, and the utterly feckless betting and gaming council, (who conceded affordability checks, and the insanity of the 1% harm levy) fight back with real venom, they are finished.
I mean finished
David Robertson retweeted
The £billions that the Labour government want to spend on carbon capture machines are a total waste of money. Nature developed this natural and beautiful carbon capture machine over millions of years. Let's plant more of them. 🌳
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Official figures out this morning report that last month, the UK government borrowed £24.5 billion.
But the fineprint shows that almost £11 billion of that extra borrowing went on debt interest payments.
That's more than £400 per household on debt service costs, in September alone.
So far during this financial year, from April to September, the government's debt interest payments amount to £61 billion.
Now, this number will barely feature in UK newspapers and across our airwaves. It may be mentioned in passing in out-of-the-way business sections, or on the odd business bulletin.
But this huge debt interest bill won't register with the vast majority of our political and media class, or impact the national debate.
Let me explain why that's so wrong and so dangerous ...
£61 billion is a massive amount of money.
It's equivalent to the UK's entire annual defence budget – the money we're paying, increasingly to foreign creditors, simply to service our national debt for six months, not to pay any of it back.
£61 billion is equivalent to the money you'd raise over a year from adding a whopping 7 pence to the basic rate of income tax.
For £61 billion, you could build around 40 large, state-of-the-art hospitals, or employ more than 100 thousand extra nurses for ten years.
£61 billion would pay for free-at-the-point of use social care for everyone who needs it in the UK, for an entire year – three times over.
Again, this is the debt interest bill on Britain's spiralling national debt – now more than 3 trillion pounds – over the last six months alone.
The UK's public finances are close to meltdown – yet so many MPs and journalists continue blithely to view ever more public spending and borrowing as the answer to every problem.
Those who highlight the dangers post by our hugely precarious national accounts are dismissed as cranks, ideologues or worse.
But basic arithmetic has no ideology.
And there is nothing "progressive" or "kind" or "right-on" about driving the UK ever closer to the fiscal cliff edge, provoking a crisis that will make the "austerity" years of the 2010s feel like a picnic, a crisis in which poorer households will suffer the most.
Yes, Britain's national debt is lower than that of France. But because our borrowing has been rising so sharply, and because we're so prone to inflation, our debt service costs are much higher.
The UK is spending a disgraceful 3.6pc of GDP on public debt interest, while France spends less than 2.5pc.
Endless airtime and column inches are devoted to spurious conversations about a billion or two of additional "fiscal headroom" we may or may not have in three years' time.
And, of course, any "extra headroom" is immediately pledged in new spending – which means yet more borrowing.
These conversations are a waste of time – and, in fact, are deeply counterproductive. Three-year fiscal forecasts, even one- and two-year forecasts, routinely turn out to be askew by tens of billions of pounds.
I'm not saying we don't need fiscal rules - we do, but we need more immediate rules, which actually bite, acting as a meaningful constraint on out-of-control borrowing and spending.
Instead, political and media sages present the nation with spuriously precise discussions about fictional fiscal outcomes way into the future – using rules which are deliberately designed to kick arithmetic realities into the long grass ....
An increasingly expensive, over-bearing, out of control state is not the answer to Britain problems.
But unless we change course, it will certainly be our downfall.
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David Robertson retweeted
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BREAKING: THE BIGGEST CLIMATE SCANDAL IN AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
The Albanese Labor Government has just been caught red handed. New forensic evidence suggests they are using a compromised Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) to fabricate a climate crisis that simply does not exist.
A explosive forensic audit led by investigator Tom Berger and retired scientist Geoff Sherrington has uncovered widespread, systematic errors and fake readings within the BOM’s raw climate data.
We aren't talking about minor glitches, we are talking about copy and pasted data designed to make the past look cooler and the present look warmer.
The audit exposed blatant data manipulation at the Sydney Observatory:
•The Fabricated Data: Minimum temperatures from August 1907 were found completely duplicated and inserted into the August 1867 record.
•The Cover-Up: The Australian fact-checked the National Archives and confirmed this "double-up" does not exist in the original handwritten records. The online data used to justify sweeping climate policies is completely wrong.
For years, the BOM has operated on a “trust us” basis. Dr David Evans, the scientist who built Australia’s carbon accounting software, warns that this “secret climate business” mirrors the worst days of fraudulent medical drug trials, where researchers were under immense pressure to exaggerate results to fit a narrative.
Labor is terrified of an independent audit because they know their Net Zero house of cards will collapse if the public sees the real numbers.
Dr Jennifer Marohasy confirmed that outside of Adelaide, there has been no proper audit of Australia's weather stations.
If our historical data is corrupted with fake inputs, the AI forecasting models used for future planning become entirely useless.
The Albanese Government doesn't want the data audited because the data doesn't support their narrative.
They are destroying our economy, killing our energy grid, and forcing Net Zero targets on regular Australians based on copy and pasted climate fiction.
The question is simple, if the records are sound, why is Labor so opposed to an independent audit?
David Robertson retweeted
In 1996 the BBC put two large women on a motorbike and sidecar, sent them round Britain cooking with lard, cream and butter by the block, and twelve million people a week sat down to watch them refuse to apologise for it.
Jennifer Paterson was sixty-eight, a Catholic who had cooked for the staff of The Spectator and been sacked for throwing the crockery out of the window. Clarissa Dickson Wright was a barrister who had drunk her way through a fortune and come out the other side. Neither had been on television. Both had been told all their lives that the way they ate was going to kill them, and both had decided they would rather be fat and fed than thin and lied to.
If you watched it you remember the sound of it. Jennifer scraping an entire pack of butter into a pan while talking about the war. Clarissa holding up a lump of suet to the camera and saying the word with relish. Game pie, kidneys in cream, bacon fat poured over cabbage, a pudding made with a pound of dripping. They cooked for monks, for lifeboatmen, for the Women's Institute, in country-house kitchens with the Aga going.
And every episode had a moment where one of them turned to the lens and said what nobody else on television would. Low fat was a fraud. Margarine was a chemical. Vegetarianism was for people with something wrong with them. Clarissa said if God had not meant us to eat animals he would not have made them out of meat.
It went out in forty countries. The BBC had expected a curiosity and got the most watched cooking programme it had ever made.
Jennifer died in 1999, of lung cancer, with a tin of caviar on the bedside table that she had asked for. Clarissa went in 2014 at sixty-six, having spent her last years defending the butcher, the gamekeeper and the dairy farmer against a country that had forgotten what they were for.
They were never right about everything. They were right about the one thing the nation was being lied to about, and they said it with a sidecar and a block of butter in front of twelve million people at a time when every other cook on television was holding up a tub of spread.
David Robertson retweeted
♦️Under oath,♦️
Dominic Cummings just said what everyone in defence knows but no one dares say.
Asked what is the biggest threat to Britain's Special Forces - is it China? Is it Russia? Is it Iran?
His answer: No.
It's not China. It's not Russia. It's not Iran.
The biggest threat to the SAS is BRITISH MOD lawyers, the Cabinet Office, and Whitehall.
In his exact words to the House of Lords committee:
"It's not Putin who's launching lawfare against the SAS;
it's not Putin who's destroyed procurement inside the MoD"
We are watching lawfare waged against our own operators by our own government. While our soldiers are learning drone warfare in Ukraine, civil servants are blocking those lessons coming home because it might hurt their budgets.
Our enemies aren't beating us. We are beating ourselves.
Cummings is usually spot on 🤦
The country is in a tragic state.
As Fred Dibnah said
This country was built by men in overalls and ruined by men in suits.
David Robertson retweeted
The Labour government’s playbook:
Tax and punish small and family businesses until they can’t survive.
Hand the public sector pay rises and gold-plated pensions paid for by the increased taxes from small and family businesses and also pour the tax money into housing illegal migrants, Ukraine and net zero.
Then, when those small and family businesses are forced to sell to pay the tax bill, Labour’s corporate donors move in and buy the assets.
David Robertson retweeted
In a previous life, I wrote extensively about this and even prepared a feasibility study for Scottish Power, then operator of the now gone, Longannet Power station...
They're doing it wrong.
The study focused on using industrial hemp, a crop that could be grown quickly with little or no inputs at every latitude free of permafrost.. all across Europe, to produce the pellets needed for once coal-fired stations.
Hemp stems have the same chemical composition as hard wood and so is the perfect feedstock for basic energy applications..
It would also give an important additional revenue stream for farming while being cropped as dual/multi-use, which includes products as basic as horse bedding to biodegradable plastics, animal feed and a highly nutritious seed ... which is perhaps the single most healthy source of plant based protein on God's green earth...
The farmers were more than interested, same with the energy firm... they met, discussed it... I was there.
The problem was the idiots in government and the civil service, including but not limited to the Home Office which oversaw regulation that treated an industrial non-narcotic crop like "marijuanna"...
We've been governed by absolute self-serving idiots for so long that it hurts.
Drax COULD be carbon neutral IF this was done properly and not simply fudged into the massive grift that it undoubtedly is... and while the carbon dioxide element is unnecessary, there are numerous other environmental and economic benefits to industrial hemp cultivation that stack up on their own merit.
Food for thought.
David Robertson retweeted
UK 🇬🇧
The Drax net zero con-trick - where a massive polluter has become a net zero manipulator. Yet more net zero environmental destruction masquerading as “saving the planet”.
The Labour government is trying to force through an extension that would give Drax an estimated £1.8bn in taxpayer funded subsidies on top of the £11bn it has already received.
Drax has burned an amount of wood equivalent to 300 million trees. Burning wood creates 18% more CO2 emissions than coal.
And here’s the con trick: Drax is a sneaky way of exporting our CO2 emissions. We pay billions of pounds to cut down ancient forests in the US and Canada, ship the wood across the Atlantic in diesel tankers, then burn it in a Yorkshire-based power station.
And here’s the kicker - the CO2 emissions tally is not counted against the country that burns it, but the country that grows it. So Drax emissions are counted against the countries who grow and export the wood for Drax - like Canada and USA…not UK who burn it. So the UK can reduce CO2 figures by importing the burning wood grown elsewhere.
A gigantic net zero con-trick.
David Robertson retweeted
Wouldn’t it be great to have politicians who just acted like public servants, focused on improving the lives of the people they are supposed to serve and just got their heads down and produced no frills, solid policies rather than posting stupid videos on TikTok and funnelling taxpayer funded contracts to their corporate donors? Sadly, it doesn’t work like that.
Politicians chase what gets them re-elected and funded: attention and donor cash. TikTok fluff videos. Contracts and favours to keep the money flowing. Solid, quiet governance does not.
Politics has become showbusiness for asset grabbing and greed.
Change the payoffs - tighter donor limits, real performance accountability, less room for wasting our money - and more of them will actually act like public servants. Until then, the snouts in the trough will continue to feed at our expense.
