>There is a different approach up here. If there is only a smell of something wrong, it will be investigated, not only when there is proof. The point is politicians should be 100% incorruptable. If there is any doubt at all, it should be investigated.
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I would agree that politicians should be incorruptable. But the truth is they are not. They are humans with human failings. Perhaps, since your government is smaller, it is easier to root out the corruption. It happens here - just recently a local judge was indicted for falsifying an application for a handicapped parking permit. The GAO routinely turns up evidence of wrongdoings at the federal level, and they get investigated. There's currently a week-long series on National Public Radio dealing with farm insurance fraud.

My point is that we have mechanisms to sniff out corruption at all levels, both public ones and private ones (reporters, watchdog organizations, and so forth). Our government is not the corrupt beast you think it is. Yours is not the pristine one you seem to believe. It didn't take long to find this: http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?channel_id=1&story_id=4900. Should De Geus have been sacked?