Why politicians shouldn't expect to be loved and admired (or even believed)

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Here in the UK our political elite are in a tizzy over leadership. The Labour Party leader has very little support among his MPs but massive support among the party membership and is heading for a showdown with his parliamentary colleagues. The Labour Party came up with the crazy idea of giving party members - who pay a tiny fee to join up - an equal vote with the MPs and trade unions and got their last leadership election hijacked by the far left. Speculation is rife that the party will have to split if he retains leadership. The guy has all the charisma of week old leftovers. The Conservatives are also in a mess. The current PM resigned post-referendum, his assumed successor realised that even he didn't believe the rot he'd been spouting and discovered that if he became prime minister, not everybody would love him any more. It's one thing swanning around London handing out free bikes and an entirely different one going into negotiate withdrawal from Europe with at least half the population (remember, a lot weren't allowed to vote - the ones who've lived here for many years but don't hold British passports) hating you. The Conservatives narrowed down Cameron's successor candidates to two people - and one has roundly shot herself in the foot over some unfortunate comments implying that because she's pushed out a few babies, she's got superpowers that her childless opponent can't match. The media have (rightly) ripped her limb from limb and she wants to pull out because they've been nasty to her. Clearly she didn't learn anything about playground fighting from all those children. When will politicians realise that you can't please all of the people all of the time and you can't expect to be loved? You're not Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny and if you're after adoration and adulation, go start a cult and brainwash some impressionable folk. Don't try to be a politician.