@HebrideanHecate @Ladyfat I had this conversation with a woman last night. She was defending our newly-elected local MP; *decent* was the word she used.
I did try to inject a little healthy scepticism. He might be trying hard now to fight for our town, but if he's in a political party he may have to choose between party advancement and what is right. And most of them take the coin. At the moment he at least answers my emails and seems to care about personal freedom, but he's a Lib Dem, so I know he has to at least pretend that some women have penises in order to be allowed at the table, because that's what party politics does to the brain.
I also had to remind her that this is not about one party over another. I'm non-partisan - I hate them all equally (except the Party of Women, of course).