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Politics. What a bunch of b******t

Today marks the 50-something election this country has had and the third in the last four years.  I don’t know who’s going to win. I don’t particularly care at this point. It’s all a game of cat and mouse and it’s unclear who’s who. If I were to believe my more fortunate friends, they’d have me believe the Tory’s are the saving grace of this country but if Twitter is anything to go by, there’s not a single person my age willing to vote anything other than Labour. For me, I see two white men fighting it out for power and using lies, deceit and the nativity of the public to do so. So it turns into a game of who’s lies matter the least and who’s stances are the most acceptable. But here I want to understand how it got to be this way. How did we get to a point where honesty didn’t win. Weren’t we taught it was the best policy? To be honest there isn’t a decisive answer to this, nor is there an ounce of clarity as to when politics shifted or a part of history we can look to as an explan...