It’s interesting you say that. Labour ministers and MPs one after another have been rolled out using the excuse of freebies is “it’s not unusual, every MP does it”. Guess they must be a bit thick and like easy sound bites eh?
Trust in politics is at an all time low. People are listening to the daily news and hearing these MPs come out and refuse to accept the optics are shit, Linkin Park summed it up well when they wrote:
These fuckers are laughing their way to the bank, and cashing their cheque
Asking you to have compassion and have some respect
For a leader so nervous in an obvious way
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day
In the living room, laughing like, "What did he say?"