Incidentally, ritualised decadence of that nature has more to do with
"class" matters, than with actual politics, although large numbers of
politicians and senior government levels are drawn from "upper class"
society, not least because many of them receive the best educations
available, and already have many of the necessary contacts to do so.
The "Old Boys Network" of various schools is still very much in
evidence, and extremely influential and powerful.