I don't think any fair minded person would think they're any better or any worse than the ex-tory politicians, many of whom were lining up very lucrative directorships by doing the odd favour for their future colleagues in the boardrooms of Britain now and then whilst still in power.
A nose in one kind of trough is just the same as a nose in another kind of trough unless your so rabidly anti-labour that you can manage to find excuses for the tory politicians who do it but not for the labour politicians who do it. And Keith is of right when he says, "Given the chance, the majority of us would do the same".