You mean like the eminent surgeon Ara Darzi, who was made a minister and given a seat in the Lords so he could be in government?

Yes, the political system is tarnished, and the venality and greed of so many individual MPs is shameful, but I think the government's taken an unfair shoeing over this. But it's easy to take a pop at whoever's in power (and it's easy to be in oppositon, even when your MPs are greedier and more corrupt than the government's, it seems.
What really pisses me off, though, is the response I keep hearing from people. "I didn't vote; it's not worth it".
As has been pointed out, the BNP were voted in wither fewer votes that they got last time, because people were too jaded, cynical, spineless, lazy, stupid or selfish to vote.
Anyone who doesn't vote abrogates the right to whinge, moan and kvetch about the system.
I wonder if the prospect of being herded into cattle trucks and taken to the gas chambers by MBS George;'s political masters would cure that sort of mealy-mouth, spineless, whey-faced, pathetic equivocation.