Lunch time poll: Voting Dilema

[cdave]

In my local seat the two parties who most stand a chance of winning there have:

• A rebellious incumbent MP who votes against his party (usually in the direction I'd want), but whose party I don't want in power.
• A local councillor for the party I'd like to see in, who doesn't really impress me with his literature, and website (and hasn't replied to an

Comments

[makyo]

I'd be inclined to vote for the rebellious incumbent MP with a track record of independent thought and doing mostly what you'd like him to, rather than the lacklustre candidate who can't reply to email and just happens to be a member of the party you like.

[cdave]

Thanks. Nice way of putting it.

[cdave]

And to be fair to the poor chap, I didn't just ask why I should vote for him. I asked if he would have attended Wash Up, and disobeyed the whip if they hadn't withdrawn it.

[matgb]

For added bonus fairness to whoever

[cdave]

He does actually have a nicely put together site. I just don't get the impression from it that he wants to be an MP to change the world.

But that's part of the problem. If there wasn't a page there saying drop me a line, with an email address on it, I wouldn't have bothered tracking one down, and wouldn't be disappointed now.