I used to go along with thinking that the average politician (not many of them about, most are below/well below average) spent all of their time and energy into staying and getting re-elected. But some of them nowadays are so bad that they cannot even be accused of taking that line. My God a load of them seem to be going out of their way to be so useless that no-one could consider re-electing them unless of course they are SNP and have a support that is so delusional, parochial and just plain uninformed that they vote them in again anyway. What a way to run a country.