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The loyalty for obvious job security.... the adoration for their egos, that people who wish to be in the spotlight, seem to have in abundance.
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Not all politicians crave the spotlight. They do it, because they have to increase their profile in order to reach as many constituents as possible and increase their chances of geting elected/re-elected.
The politicians who tend to crave that limelight are the serious, career politicians, the ones who are looking to get somewhere prominent on the national stage. Most politicians I've met are actually quite uncomfortable with media attention, and being the centre of attention at functions as well. This is one reason most polticians seek media training. It's not actually their natural habitat.
Even on the national scene, the representatives that each constituency elects to Parliament as an MP, are mostly people who've had other careers and other experiences. Most aren't 'career politicians' in that sense. We get more of them these days mind, people coming out of university with a political career in mind from the start. But for instance, my local MP worked in a bank until she got ill in her early 30s and lost her job because of it. She went off and got herself an English degree and was persuaded to run for Council, before eventually running for MP. She's the most down to earth normal person you're ever likely to meet. She lives in an ordinary little dormer bungalow, with a small lawn at the front. She hates having her photo taken and when she's been interviewed on tv she phones her sister to see if she watched it, and did her hair look okay?
They're just people. Most of them you'll never know their names, because they're not in the cabinet or in some prominent national role. They're just local MPs and they serve their local communities. You only see them as rows of faces on the green seats at Prime Minister's Questions.