Disillusionment with politics isn't a recent phenomena.It's very evident in Swifts's works some 300 years ago
All too often circumstances seem to conspire to trade down political discourse and general culture to the lowest common denominator - a political entropy

Politicians tend to mislead because there is an advantage in doing so, and a culture that fosters it, not just within Westminster but outside it and a 'desire' almost by certain sections of the public to want to be misled rather than face themselves or a more complex world

You don't have to look very far to see those who would prefer to believe their own prejudice rather than having to confront it
It is a scientific fact that 200 million illegal immigrants are in a telephone box at Dover awaiting a phone call to release them.Europe is filled with power crazed dictators ready to invade Poland hoping to find the odd plumber left, prisons are 5* resorts, with meals by Fortnums free internet and extensive exotic holidays. The list goes on, largely fueled by a biased unelected press and a gullible public
It is in various ways a two way process that all conspire in, though not all desire.

I'm sure that were people not to vote in significant numbers consistently, it would force some confrontation of our own system, and would represent a democratic choice of rejection But Im sometimes here reminded of the prisoner strung up on the wall in 'Life of Brian, who endlessly moans and groans while at the same time demanding harsher penalties and supporting his captors

Most odd, as is the person who convinced himself that in a previous life he was 'little Lord Fauntleroy' and proceeded to act on that basis in this life, pompously appointing himself to an office that didn't exist, and powers he never had.Not surprisingly he fell from his little pedestal quite quickly. But old dogs and new tricks are never a good mix