I thought the basic principle of democracy was that leaders were elected who would embody the will of the people, not that the people had to comply with the will of the leaders or be rejected as unworthy. So maybe this is a key to the hostility that all the main parties are facing. If the electorate has come to loathe politicians, it may be that they just see themselves as returning the compliment. Lesson number one in basic governance: generally speaking, people do not like to feel that their leaders find them repulsive. Even kings and tyrants (unless they were mad) have understood the need to express “love”, or at least concern, for their populations.