Remarkable to me is the expectation here though of politicians.

They are ALL venal and vacuus self seeking windbags with no ability or interest in achieving anything but their own advantage.

It’s been that way since Ancient Rome I’m afraid.

Whole debate to be had ( maybe not here) about whether representative government is either possible or existent.

Probably best not to go there or I’ll have the usual suspects screeching at me and getting angry that I challenged their simplistic understanding of the world