Damian McBride on the Vanity and Hypocrisy of Politicians

Damian McBride has written that he was “sucked in like a concubine at a Roman orgy” to the “dark”’ world of politics which encourages “vanity, duplicity, greed, ­hypocrisy and cruelty”.

I'm reminded of a small poem, my first effort, written in November 1961, when I was still a schoolboy:


Hypocritical political

Leaders. Breeders

Of contempt, exempt

From humanity;

Filled with insane

And empty vanity.

Only seeking in reality,

Power, fame and private gain.

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No real surprises then, in the Daily Mail