Originally Posted by Osem

No but actors/luvvies, musicians, authors and the like certainly do more than their fair share of public moralising on such issues as poverty etc. and often get quite heavily involved in politics in one way or another. Of course their fans aren't likely to criticise them to the same extent as some suit in parliament. I don't have any problem with our politicians being beyond reproach but in the real world that's asking a hell of a lot, especially when they're often damned if they do and damned if they don't. Right now it's quite fun for people to be branding all our politicians as somehow untrustworthy when I think most of them aren't any more so than anyone else.

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I wonder if all those baying Guardian hacks and readers will want to comment on...