Can’t remember the person quoted, but someone once said that anyone wanting to be a politician should be barred from being one.
A different tack. The right viewed from the left. Selfish, greedy, elitist. Promoting greater disparity in wealth, staid.
The left viewed from the right. Profligate, disincentivising hard work, promoting mediocrity by supporting the feckless.
The reality is that the British mainstream left and right are very similar as they have to operate within reasonable norms, otherwise they wouldn’t get elected because, get this, the British public are not as stupid (on the whole) as the politicians would like to believe.
They will happily have the press troll on their behalf, though, getting supposedly respectable columnists to push their agenda. When you look at it like this, the rantings of Peter Hitchens and ravings of George Monbiot are painfully transparent.