StephaniePowers - that just sums up the tragedy. ALL politicians seem to be cut from the same cloth nowadays.
So many MPs their families and their entire peer group (Tory, Liberal AND Labour) NEVER use the public services and public sector infrastructure that the vast majority of us depend on, such as the NHS, state schools, public transport, public libraries, local post offices, Council-run leisure facilities (such as swimming pools, gyms, sports clubs for youngsters) and no-one else within their orbit does either.
They don't know anyone who is 50+, long-term unemployed following redundancy and facing a life on the scrap heap because employers won't even consider you. All their jobs are obtained through the Old Boy network. They aren't trying to live on £53 per week Carer's allowance while they look after elderly or disabled relatives. They can buy in care.
They ALL have private health insurance, use private schools and healthclubs and drive (or are driven) everywhere. They can buy books instead of borrowing them and have internet acess at home.
How many of them have ever had to battle with an inefficient underfunded Inland Revenue, CSA or Benefits Agency themselves, rather than pay others (accountants, lawyers) to sort out their financial and legal affairs? Or been completely dependent on public transport to get to a Post Office to cash their pensions or giros?