Wednesday, 20 May 2009

Politics still matters


After the events of the last few weeks at Westminster, it's tempting to dismiss all politicians as a bunch of self-serving troughers who are best ignored. But politics should never be ignored because when it is, disaster can follow.

Right in the middle of the current second-home flipping, expenses-gate circus, last Wednesday former Conservative party leader Iain Duncan Smith went on a one-day trip to Auschwitz. His description of that visit provides a timely reminder of what can happen when politics fails. You can read it here.

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