Mr McGrath, I fear you are listing "Les Detestables" based on their political affiliations rather than on their morality.

The most detestable politician in my voting lifetime was leader of the Labour party for many years.....but he spoke well, believed in completely unregulated immigration from within the EU and never laid a finger on any "pussy" but Cherie's......and then only with the lights out, under the duvet and wearing industrial gloves.

The game's up, there is going to be an evolution and if Left and Right don't take part there will certainly ensue a form of Fascism.

People have been programmed to accept unbridled capitalism, when it's working efficiently, but when it goes into decline as it always does,(it's in the nature of the beast) people will not accept the consequences. Important matters come to the fore like survival, the right to a decent fulfilling life, freedom from abject poverty.

The backlash kicks in with a vengeance!