Polly Toynbee in the Guardian laments the anti-politics mood in the UK.

But the problem is not politicians and their crass policies and greedy expenses-grabbing.

It’s voters, ungrateful for all the good things Government bestows upon them.

As for bloggers:

The blogosphere could have been a source for better information, but purveys even more rabid anti-politics bile

Read that one again?

The blogosphere could have been a source for better information, but purveys even more rabid anti-politics bile.

Hmm. I had not realised that I was a purveyor of rabid bile.

Can bile be rabid? And purveyed in any serious quantities?

Commenter Robin Yewall is on to something:

Here’s the news Polly – we don’t need politicians to make our lives better for us. We only need ourselves, and an absence of interference. We are not children, needing support and guidance. It is the interference of politicians and people like yourself that dis-empowers and impoverishes communities.

It is not the job of government to ‘change society’. It is the job of government to do only those things that individuals or communities – usually for resource reasons – cannot do themselves.

This dreadful, interfering, infantilising Fabianism of yours and New Labour’s is what is destroying society for everyone. If only you would all just go away, we would all be better off.

Sounds about right.