Mick Hume over at Spiked! sums up perfectly the Laws scandal (about Britain's Chief Secretary to the Secretary David Laws resigning for paying the rent of his secret gay lover):
This is the end point of the process that some of us have warned about from the start, when the elite obsession with sleaze becomes a substitute for political debate.
British politics suffers from the same disease that is inflecting American politics ( which has contaminated the rest of the world) and paralyzing essential debates due to an incessant focus on the trivial and the titillating, but insignificant.
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