Just like the rest of us, really

I received an e-mail from a friend today which contained the following:

"Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 600 employees and has the following statistics?

29 have been accused of spouse abuse, 7 have been arrested for fraud, 19 have been accused of writing bad cheques, 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses, 3 have done time for assault, 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit, 4 have been arrested on drug-related charges, 8 have been arrested for shoplifting, 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits, 84 have been arrested for drink driving in the last year.

Which organization is this?

It's the 635 members of the House of Commons, the same group that cranks out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line."

This is not to mention the bed-hopping, lying, cheating, etc.

I have no way of knowing if the figures I received are true, - I'm not sure that anyone will know all this. I mention them as possibly true, for a bunch of people we all know to be greedy, ambitious and not above lying through their teeth.

My point is simply this, that although they often put themselves on a pedestal, there is no need for us to do the same, and that if they had a little more honour and less arrogance we would respect them more.