Are All MPs Self-Serving Pigs With Their Snouts in the Trough?
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🗓️ 18 January 2026
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Are All MPs Self-Serving Pigs With Their Snouts in the Trough?
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Are all MPs self-serving pigs with their snouts in the trough? After 30 years in radio and TV, watching politicians off-camera in green rooms, I've had enough of the act.
On screen they shout, sneer and pretend to hate each other. Off screen they laugh, joke, slap backs and sneer at how stupid they think voters are.
Today I'm saying what millions suspect but the media won't admit: Westminster isn't about public service — it's about careerism, ego and performance.
Is politics just showbiz for ugly people? Does Westminster corrupt decent people — or does it only attract the wrong ones in the first place? From expenses scandals to fake party rivalries, from cosy BBC panels to MPs who've never done a real job, this is the reality they don't want discussed. No script. No filters. No apologies. You decide — I'll tell you what I've seen.
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| 0:00.0 | Good afternoon. Welcome, excuse me, welcome to the John Gorn podcast. Here's the question. Are all MPs self-serving pigs with their snouts in the trough? I've been holding a survey today, but what kind of survey? It's not that scientificly. On and on Facebook, and I'll give you the results soon. |
| 0:22.8 | And they surprised me. The question was, are all MPs self-serving pigs? And the answers could be yes, no, most of them. |
| 0:35.4 | There were three options on the, |
| 0:37.9 | on the poll. |
| 0:39.4 | I'll tell you the results in a moment, |
| 0:41.4 | but let's have your opinion on this. |
| 0:44.4 | Because ever since, |
| 0:45.5 | Robert Generic |
| 0:46.8 | defected to the Conservatives, |
| 0:51.1 | and now there's all this other talk about, |
| 0:52.8 | oh, what Labour person is it? The mainstream |
| 0:55.6 | media are obsessed. This is all bullshit. It's all showbiz. And in fact, I now definitely |
| 1:03.2 | agree with the adage that politics is just showbiz for old people. Why do I say that? Not for old people, ugly people. Why do I say this? |
| 1:14.0 | Well, I spent nearly 30 years in radio and television green rooms, basically doing that thing |
| 1:20.4 | where you go from one studio to another and you're a gob on a stick and you give your opinion, |
| 1:25.4 | particularly when I was writing for the sun. And what I've been in |
| 1:29.1 | these green rooms, I've watched politicians when they think the public isn't looking. On |
| 1:35.5 | camera, they shout, they posture, and they pretend to hate each other. Off camera, they laugh, they joke, they slap box, backs, mock the voters they claim to represent, and then go for lunch together. Don't believe me, well, I'll tell you all about it today, because this proves what the problem is with Westminster. |
| 2:07.9 | It's stuffed full of self-serving pigs with their snouts in the trough. |
| 2:13.8 | Genric is the absolute lute personification of this. |
| 2:19.1 | He's only gone to reform to keep his pathetic political career going. |
| 2:24.1 | If he stayed being a Tory MP in Newark, he wasn't going to get elected. |
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