Pretty much everyone agrees that British politics is rotten. And yet in Westminster, a revolving door continues to exist whereby regulators, legislators, businesses and journalists exchange jobs between each other in a self-enriching merry-go-round which has become accepted as normal.
Everyone knows it is happening yet few people speak out against it because if they do, they risk being ostracised from the cosy little club and find that their job options suddenly become limited. And who would be brave enough to do that, when they have mouths to feed?
And so it goes on. A ex-MP joins a company board, a journalist becomes a lobbyist, a lobbyist becomes a Lord. Gifts and favours exchanged. The impact on the parliamentary process is corrosive. Trust in politics continues to fall. And yet the revolving door carries on.