Yeah, as a former ukpol regular I am aware of the problematic nature of some of the moderation there. The following is all my personal thoughts (@NuPNuA may chime in, neither of us are particularly dictatorial in how this place is run but we haven’t disagreed yet) but hopefully gives you the gist of what I hope the community will be.

1. Because of the small size of this community right now, moderation is very light touch. Lemmy gives you the tools to block and hide threads as you see fit so mods right now are for clearing spam and stickying mega threads and not much else. That would only need to be reviewed if and when the community gets to a much more significant size.
2. Because of 1), additional mods would only be appointed if there was a need. If a Reddit ukpol mod came to this board, they’re quite welcome, but they would not be given mod permissions just because they had them on Reddit. If we decide there’s more mods required, we’ll have an open discussion with the community about filling that need.
3. That said, and I am about to go all centrist dad here, I personally am as uninterested in moderating a hard left community as I am in moderating a hard right community. Lemmy has no shortage of hard left spaces already (including, I believe, an /r/greenandpleasant spinoff) and this will not be one of them as long as I am a mod. Right now we don’t have any real rules (woo yay anarchy) because we haven’t needed to get strict with anyone. If this place starts getting filled up with soapboxing, hate speech, any kind of *-phobist behaviour, or generally becoming an unpleasant place for me to discuss my tedious centrist views, I will push for us to have rules and for them to be enforced.

If I had to articulate what I’m after, it’s a BBC / Guardian / Financial Times comments section with shitposting and more political nerdery and without the spEak You’re bRanes brigade.