The oil - sands crowd — most of the population and almost the entire political class of Alberta and Saskatchewan — are defending the right of hard - working people to extract and sell a product that is, after all, legal to own and use, and that probably got your car to work this morning: hydrocarbon - based fuels. (macleans.ca)
It is as though the force of the economic crisis has thrown the entire political class into a gigantic lake of treacle. (totalpolitics.com)
Those familiar with the problems of 21st century British politics - the disengagement headache, the ambiguities of personality politics, the constant atmosphere of distrust overhanging the entire political class - are present here. (politics.co.uk)