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Originally Posted by Mancie
Yes it's not the ideal.. but it must be awful to have an elected Tory MP for most of the 80's in a town that was battered to the ground by the then Tory Government.. like I said votes in General elections are not really a vote for the best bloke/woman for the job.. but for the party you think will benefit from your vote.. so the vote goes to the candidate who is not Tory
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Even taking into account the boundary changes, judging from past results, the Conservatives in Bermondsey have such a small percentage of the vote, they haven't a cat in Hell's chance of winning.
Since there's a similarly nonexistent chance of the Liberal Democrats forming the next government, it looks like the people of your constituency are voting for the candidate soley because of his personality, which rather quashes your argument that people vote for party, rather than person.
If I lived there I'd be doing my best to unseat the hypocritical Simon Hughes, partly because until he fought the dirtiest by-election in living history, the seat had been solidly Labour, so there'd be a good chance of unseating him.
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