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Originally Posted by The Bear
They didn't.
They voted for a man who CLAIMED to support Conservative policies by virtue of the Conservative manifesto and so was standing on the Conservative "ticket".
This isn't an "I hate Bob Spink" thing, I actually rather like what I know about the man, It's about the rights and wrongs of "Crossing The Floor".
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Care to give us any instance of an MP switching party, resigning and restanding in a by-election (a huge waste of public funds)
The majority of electors who voted in Castle Point did not vote Conservative at all but they have Spink as their MP and he is obliged to serve the interests of all of them, which I have no doubt he does very well.
In this country we vote for indivduals, not party lists. It is merely a system by which a sensible choice is made when there is more than one candidate for a particular seat.
Spink, of course, was and remains a Conservative, just as I do. It is Cameron and his pack of shysters who have walked away from us not we from them.