Yuyutsu,

You are right. Politicians exist to serve themselves. But, I think that Ref meant that they are SUPPOSED to be serving us. Sadly, the time is well and truly gone when politicians went into the 'game' to serve country or people. What better way for third rate people to get paid more than they are worth, more than they could ever get from a real job, than to go into politics. You need absolutely no qualifications – just a big fat ego and like-minded scungy mates to get yourself pre-selected for an established party which decides who goes into parliament. It's certainly out of the hands of us plebs.

And there goes Aidan again, rambling about 'sovereign currency' and the charms of living in debt. I suppose we should be grateful that at least none of our idiotic politicians have come up with such absolute rubbish