![]() ![]() Leo McKinstry’s (2014) assertion that ‘the political class inhabits its own bubble, utterly divorced from the lives of voters … too many professional politicians … have no experience of the real world. Guido Fawkes (2009) allegation that ‘Disenchantment with politicians has never been higher, most think they are overpaid and dishonest’.Īndrew Neil’s 2011 documentary ‘Posh and Posher: Why Public School Boys Run Britain’ ( see Crone, 2011) and assertion (in BBC2’s Daily Politics 19.6.14 from 39 minutes) that ‘all MPs will end up looking and sounding the same’ if ‘hand picked by the party high command’. Examples include: Peter Oborne’s (2007) description of a ‘narrow, self-serving governing elite’. Instead, they are part of a self-referential ‘political class’ which is increasingly distant from the real world and mistrusted by the public. ![]() A wide selection of broadcast, print and social media commentators argue that elected politicians in the UK are not representative of their constituents. It is now commonplace in Britain to bemoan the failings of the ‘political class’ or ‘professional politician’. “It’s a very simple agenda: to destroy the professional politician." /cB0ULCuSZF ![]()
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