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 email from 5 days ago asking why I should vote for him).

[Poll #1553873]

Comments

[dougs.livejournal.com]

My own existing MP, who represents my party-of-choice in a very safe seat, is standing down. None of the candidates this time round, including the new candidate for my party-of-choice, have made any particular effort to persuade me of anything at all, and none of them are people I've met or have heard of.

So while I've ticked "Candidate", above, I'll probably end up voting for the party.

[cdave]

I doubt I know the name of anyone beside myself and my flat mate who live in my constituency. The perils of living in a small London constituency and socialising largely outside of it.

[drplokta]

You certainly know the names of some more people who live in your constituency, although you may not know that they do live in your constituency. There are enough celebrities living in London that every constituency must have several.

[cdave]

Well I do live in one of the smallest constituency's in the country "characterised by Council accommodation, and Students", and the celebs tend to live a few tens of meters north in the trendier Crouch End, but a good point.

I meant I don't really have any sense of local community, so I'm not actually voting on a "local" MP. I'm voting on local candidate for the national seat.

[dougs.livejournal.com]

It's worth mentioning that the incumbent and I, as well as being in the same party, also know each other and have done for a while and get along just fine. The new guy hasn't previously been active in this constituency but has been elsewhere.