Career Politician, where do I start...

No matter the colour of their political party they all have similar traits.

• Its a career and as such are more worried about that career including rising through the ranks within their chosen party a head of everything else.  We the electorate come a poor 3rd behind business.
• They have come through the same degree courses, as was shown by the cartoon in British papers when Jeremy Corbyn became the Labour Party leader, which refereed to the university system as cloning facilities.
• They will say and do anything to get elected and stay elected.  Their actions in between very rarely map on to the manifesto that they were elected on.  An example of this was the Tory party 2000-2010 records, including there 2010 manifesto being deleted off of their website before the 2015 elections, allegedly to stop the other parties using the information against them during the election..
• They love spin and use it in various devious way.  It is well known that very unpopular polices and news tends to be released at odd times of the day and when some other big event has the presses eye.   The Labour Party, during the Tony years, announced that they has spent more on the Trunk road network in the UK. What they had actually done was declassify large parts of the A roads from Trunk status, making it look like they had spent more money per mile.  In fact they had passed the burden on to the local councils who then had to find the money to maintain these previous trunk roads.
• A complete disregard for public money. You just have to look at the published costs that have shown up over the last two decades.  Using a taxi to travel a few hundred and the type of food and drink offered to them and the amounts of it.  The worst though has to be the 2008 banking crisis, where the government borrowed hundred of billions of pounds to bail out the banks only to sell them off without recouping the money lost and leaving us to fund the shortfall for decades/ generations to come. 
• A similar attitude to transparency in government.  It would be a threat to their career if the electorate was to truly see what is going on.  A brilliant example of this was in 2014 when just days before the metropolitan police were due to make a formal request for the expenses from 2000-2010 that were at the centre of a political scandal suddenly became the subject of a data protection policy and a data retention policy was implemented. The up shot of the current fiscal year + 3 previous, meant those documents had to be deleted.
• Big Business is more important that the electorate. Allowing multinationals to avoid paying the due amounts of tax .  Or worse the ripoff of the electorate where these companies push up the cost when the raw materials go up yet when the prices drop significantly do not pass on those savings to the electorate.  They then allow them to use the new lower price as a marker to justify price increases even thought the price is nowhere near the original high price.  The utilities and petrochemical industries in particular are using this model and the politicians do nothing, placing millions of working families in to fuel povity.