to have a growing respect for Ed Milliband ...

[SammyTheSwedishSquirrel]

even though he looks like Frank the tortoise?

That's true Sammy and undoubtedly she influenced them hugely too
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Kozak

It just worries me when you read their background and Cameron's to see they have done almost nothing outside of politics at all, its such an artificial world that they live in, a middle class intellectual bubble. (and I think that is unhealthy and too narrow even though I am a middle class professional who lives in North London etc...)

I find him as unlikeable as Cameron and Clegg TBH. Are there any politicians left that aren't career politicians?

It worries me too. It makes me think they value their political careers over what is right. Our old, now retired MP, came to it later in life almost by accident. He couldn't have cared less about party politics or his personal position, he just wanted to fight for what he thought was right. I remember him saying that his party's leaders hated him because he wouldn't tow the line.