Servants of the people

There must be something in the water at Westminster that turns MP's and civil servants into power hungry imbeciles. I know they say power corrupts, but surely you'd expect to see the occasional exception to the rule? Mind you I'm probably clutching at straws here, or living in a fantasyland of my own imagining.
Express.

ARROGANT ministers have warned they may boycott the Olympics after being told to ditch official cars for public transport when travelling to events, it emerged yesterday.
Downing Street has banned them from being driven except in certain circumstances, amid fears of bad publicity if they are caught cruising down the lanes reserved for Olympic VIPs, athletes and media.
David Cameron said this week he would use public transport “and that is how I recommend everyone should travel”.
But some ministers, many of whom have been drafted in to look after VIP visitors, are unhappy.
One Cabinet minister said the “draconian rules” had caused “a lot of ill feeling and frankly some of us would rather not be going to anything at all”.

Most people I know won't be going to the Olympics at all, mostly because of the cost, the few that are, are sports fanatics and have paid through the nose to get there. I suspect their (and my) reaction is pretty much the same, these 'servants of the public' are getting freebies and watching purportedly one of the great sporting spectacles of the century. So when they bleat about having to use public transport and their dignity, my reaction is if you don't want to do it, give the tickets to a worthy cause. They seem to forget that it's our money paying for them to attend and that we expect value for money. Not that we do seem to get much in the way of value for money from any government office these days. Still it seems churlish to complain about getting something for nothing and keep bitching about having to use the same means to get there as everyone else save the other waste of spaces using the unpopular VIP lanes (not the athletes, fairs fair, they have to be there)
Still at least we know (again) just what a bunch of greedy pigs that were elected to serve us...