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Article: This horseman's head won't halt the hunters.(Features)
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 11, 2009
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Byline: John Waters
THERE is a popular view that when governments remain too long in office, corruption inevitably creeps in. This tendency - call it 'Roman Empire Syndrome' - dogged the last months of John Major's Conservative government in Britain in the mid-1990s, when every day brought some new revelation about something dodgy in the public or private lives of leading Tories.
Once this trend takes hold, it becomes almost impossible to stop and, in extreme cases, can cause long-term damage. There is a plausible case to be made that, had Neil Kinnock's Labour defeated the Tories in 1992, Britain would not today have had 12 continuous years of Labour ...