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Originally Posted by Eurosceptic Atlanticist
Elections are on the basis of the candidate. It's not like it's done on Party lists.
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And the candidate is chosen by the local party. He / she represents the party, they do not represent him.
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Originally Posted by Eurosceptic Atlanticist
You vote for the man, not the Party. The fact that people place relevance on the latter is inconsequential, because that's not how the system works.
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That may well be not the way the system works in theory but it certainly is how the system works in practice.
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Originally Posted by Eurosceptic Atlanticist
At the end of the day if the people of Castle Point don't like it, they vote him out come the next election.
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That's the point. They shouldn't NEED to wait. He has decided to no longer be the Conservative MP that the locals decided that they wanted to represent their wish to be represented by a conservative in the House. They now find themselves represented by a man who is (presumably) supporting a very different manifesto.
That is wrong wrong wrong.
If Spink decided for whatever reasons that he no longer wanted to take the Conservative “pay and rations”, he should not only have left the party, he should have vacated the seat that the locals wanted filled BY a Conservative.
That would have been the honorable course of action to take.