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Originally Posted by DaveinGermany
Have looked at 192, so what happens when the person who would be best for the constituency, doesn't fit into the party that is best for the Country, and furthermore the issues you state here about Personality & Ability ?
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It's a fine balancing act.
The abilities of a particular candidate, versus the policies of the party they represent.
To further illustrate the point. When a certain person announced their intention of seeking selection in the forthcoming General Election, we had a thread about it. In this thread quite a few people, who in the past have said they have no strong political allegiance, and have indeed voted various ways in the past, stated there was no way on earth they'd vote for this particular person.
So it obviously does matter which candidate people want to represent them.
If it didn't, the local Conservative party wouldn't be having the reported trouble over their selection short-lists, and they could just put forward a monkey with a blue rosette pinned to his monkey jacket, to stand for them.
(An idea that they've probably considered, as long as the monkey is a local primate.)