Contrarian Brian Barder tries to put in a good word for MPs. A dirty job but someone has to do it.

I agree with most of it, especially the first part where he agrees with me.

But at the end comes this:

… these are the people on whom we depend for rescue from the depredations of free market capitalism.

Huh?

In the unlikely event I wanted rescuing from that phenomenon, the very last place I would go for assistance (only then to find myself dependent on their kind help? The sheer humiliation of it!) would be the Westminster Parliament, let alone the European one which is far worse.

In his comment posted on Guido’s site and reproduced on his own, Brian claims:

The worst thing about these revelations of petty venality on the part of some of our politicians is that they reinforce the general disillusionment with our politics and our politicians, just at the time when we desperately need widespread public support for action by governments everywhere (and governments are staffed by politicians) to get us through a massive global financial and economic crisis caused by a handful of much greedier private sector financiers, not at all by politicians.  

Not all by politicians?

Not at all?

Come off it.