The problem now , however is that politicians are in it for their own gain, at our expense, so the erosion of civil service works in their favour also. . . . The politicians make good and their mates even better, whilst we plebeians, and the nation as a whole, all suffer.
A far less eloquent...
We would have been better off as a nation, if they'd all died and we'd looked after ourselves.
you can roll that back a few years . . . . . Decades even.