Truth in Politics

The three larger political parties are starting their national campaigns, laughingly in support of the LOCAL elections.
Seemingly, they are targeting their campaigns on anti-social behaviour.
The trouble is that the example they give us by their own behaviour is so appalling that the impact is likely to be the same as when Blair and Brown tell us that our marines were in Iraqi waters. Sorry, but since the last time we had heaps of "evidence" shovelled in front of us and it turned out to be half baked, it becomes difficult to take such things totally at face value.
Furthermore, when we allowed "extraordinary rendition", misbehaviour by our troops in Iraq, the continuation of Guantanamo Bay and all the rest, that is seemingly OK. It is very difficult to argue against Iran accusations that we are in no position to complain about their action. The Iranians may, of course, have acted illegally, but so did we when we invaded Iraq.
So why should the electorate, and particularly young people, take the direction of our national leaders terribly seriously?
Even on the home front, the Chancellor of the Exchequer when making a formal speech, supposedly as a senior minister does so in a duplicituous manner, rather than as a formal statement of fact and information. The trouble is that many of our politicians, and particularly those in government have now spent so long manipulating the truth and distorting the facts, they no longer recognise an untruth when it leaps out of every other sentence.
Whilst ASBOs are of questionable value, we should perhaps be trying them out at government level and if they fail to bring a cure there then perhaps they should be abondoned altogether.......