‘Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation.
You were deputed here to get grievances redressed; are you not yourselves become the greatest grievance?
Gold is your god, which of you has not bartered your conscience with bribes?
Make haste ye venal slaves, be gone.’
Oliver Cromwell speaking in Parliament in 1653 denouncing MPs’ greed.
The Incisal Edge 