Do Ya Think?

And todays Award for ‘No Shit Sherlock’ goes to  The Committee on Standards in Public Life for its survey which found that there has been a.

'Steep' drop in public confidence in MPs, says watchdog

The percentage of people in England who think MPs are dedicated to working well for the public dropped from 46% to 26%.

That’s because we now see them as thieving, venal place holders out for the main chance.

The watchdog said it would be "strange" if the expenses scandal had not contributed to public unhappiness.

If I see something that, looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it’s a duck.  The Committee on Standards in Public Life is not so sure.

Although it shows a "long-term decline in public confidence in those holding public office" since 2004, the report says that on many issues, the decline since 2008 has been even "steeper".

So 2004 about the time we realised Tony Blair had no clothes and when did Gordon become Prime Minister late 2007 wasn’t it?

Other findings included a drop in the number of people who believe MPs are competent, from 36% in 2008 to 26% in 2010,

It was that high?, they are competent only in stealing or spending OUR money

But only on "not taking bribes" did a majority of people - 67% - believe that all or most MPs exhibited that quality.

That’s because after ‘Cash for questions’ they realised it was better to loot from the inside and made it easier for themselves to do so and if it wasn’t for that pesky journalist they would have got away with it too. (They still do all right out of think tanks and banks when they leave though, funny that)

Still it’s only a survey and these things can be wrong after all 73% of respondents said Senior Police Officers were ‘Trusted To Tell The Truth’  although the survey was in January  prior to Hackgate. so it might have dropped a bit by now.

I hate them all with a passion you can only dream of.