Sniff...

It's a curious thing about politics and politicians, but they seem to come with an instant 'disbelivability' tag.  The expenses scandal last year should have changed the political landscape for ever, but listening to the main party leaders it seems as though very little has changed.

It becomes increasingly difficult to accept their assurances and lack of courage and honesty. A simple illustration is drugs.  The drug advisory council is now all but bereft of the scientists  - the people who take decisions based on evidence and fact - and the council might now just as well be a political department.  Most people in the UK would probably support the legalisation of certain drugs, but which party would have the courage to say that in an election manifesto? 

Maybe we really do get the politicians we deserve.