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Any authority is only as good as the people elected to serve in it. And, as has been proved over and over with DTC, DDC, KCC, councils up and down the land, and parliament itself, the standard (in intellect, imagination, erudition, independence of thought, wit, and any other comparator you care to mention) is very, very low indeed. They are, almost without exception, unprincipled, vain, self-serving dullards. The astonishing thing is that we nevertheless continue to put these exploitative, compromised fools in place. And that says much about our own standards.