PETER HITCHENS: I've lived in a truly corrupt country ��� that's why I know Britain isn't one

This is Peter Hitchens���s Mail on Sunday column

This is not a corrupt country. Corruption exists, and often it is driven much more by friendship than by money. 

I have little doubt that we will become much more corrupt in the years to come because the forces that restrain it are growing weaker.

But it would be very silly if we tried to decide our political future on the basis that one of the big parties was more corrupt than the other.

Both of those parties are terrible, but corruption is n...