Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, Neil Kinnock, John Prescott and Peter Mandelson have all done very well financially out of their political careers. But the much abused public received little in return, probably much less than they thought they had. The one thing that British government leaders have in common with leaders of other countries, is a shared contempt for the people they are paid to serve, and a belief that they can get away with any deed, no matter how foul.

Let us look at just one example of the way governments have abused the people.

After the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and further nucleur tests had been carried out, radioactivity levels rose and British and American governments became secretly alarmed. Rather than halt further tests they decided to check the effects of radiation on human beings. From 1947 to 1993 hundreds ( if not thousands) of members of the public, without their knowledge or consent, were administered doses of radioactive material. Those used as guinea pigs included pregnant women, children in institutions and cancer sufferers. Many of these people died, became permanently ill or gave birth to children who then suffered radiation damage, some only lived for a short while.

Numerous tests of this monstrous kind were carried out in America during July 1947 as part of the Manhattan Project, where numerous unwary participants were injected with a poisonous substance. To make matters worse, the results gleaned from these experiments were casually discarded as being of little use. It has been established that during the 1950s more children, hospital patients and pregnant women were deliberately exposed to radioactive material. To reduce the risk of public anxiety, the reassuring name, "Project Sunshine" was given to this sinister programme. In 1955 the atomic scientists who carried out the experiments admitted that similar studies were also taking place in England, and they hoped that the results could be coordinated. British government officials denied that such experiments had taken place.

After killing the victims, it was common practice to remove parts of the body so that a more accurate measurement of the effects of radiation could be recorded. This included checks on how far radiation had penetrated the bones. Among the children who died was a six-month-old baby from Anglesey. After having their suspicions aroused and drawing a wall of silence from the authorities, some of the victims and their families managed to piece together the evidence, showing how the establishment had callously risked the lives of their loved ones by treating them like laboratory-bred rats. In Britain it was the Medical Research Council, a government department, that was responsible for these atrocities.

Don't think that such immoral behaviour is beyond Brown's Labour Party or Cameron's Conservatives. Indeed they have already carried out many activities that are considerably worse. The murderous and bloody assaults on Iraq, Afghanistan and countries in the Balkans have had nothing to do with democracy, but everything to do with an insatiable greed and fanatical desire to control. Collect any group of people at random from a bus stop, and put them in charge of the country. Without much hesitation, we would expect to soon see them setting about cleaning up our hospital wards, improving the standard of education, policing our borders, ensuring jail sentences are equal to the crime and removing the new constraints placed upon motorists. These issues which Parliament refuses to tackle are what concern the public most. Instead of tackling what needs to be done, Parliament instead makes a big issue out of road deaths, using it as an excuse to control and spy on the public, as well as a means to extort yet more money from motorists. This, despite the fact that more than twice as many people die in hospitals, through neglect, mistakes and super bugs than are killed on the roads. What is your opinion of the government? Is it bad or is it mad?