Politicians

What is it about politicians that they think they are above the general law or at least that they can get away with behaving badly without recriminations? If the stories about Huhne are true and he persuaded people to pretend they were driving his car instead of him so he would escape penalty points on his licence for speeding, what on earth was he thinking of? If true he must have known that it was inevitable that there was every risk the whole sordid mess would become public knowledge at some stage. Is this arrogance or is it the need to live dangerously? If the latter, is being able to stand up and ask and answer questions in the cooker pressure of Commons debates an addiction which inevitably leads to a love of danger? Politicians all through the ages have done the kind of thing Huhne is alleged to have done but in my view it is arrogance that drives them to take these types of risk. An arrogance that they are so much more clever than the rest of us, that they are the centre of the Universe and that their needs and wants must be given priority over the common man. It is this kind of attitude which gives politicians a deservedly bad name and which led to the expenses scandal about which we have been reminded today. Will David Laws be able to rejoin the government? Surely someone would have to go before a space became available for him. Which Lib Dem minister will stand aside for him? I suspect he'll have to wait a long time.