Advice for Independent Candidates?

**Marilyn** · 06-01-2011, 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by bdf4bnp

Wrong.

Voters vote for the person who tells them what they want to hear. Massive balls to tell lies is all you need. Even better if you can back it up with the support of one of the main parties, who have the cream of liars at their disposal.

My oh My .. I guess you are with the "people are sheeple" brigade .. excepting for you, of course.

**Mon dieu** · 06-01-2011, 06:14 PM

Originally Posted by bdf4bnp

Voters vote for the person who tells them what they want to hear. Massive balls to tell lies is all you need. Even better if you can back it up with the support of one of the main parties, who have the cream of liars at their disposal.

Ain't that the truth!

Originally Posted by bdf4bnp

My advice to independents is to not bother. Even if you win, you will achieve nothing, unless you jump over into one of the main parties once elected. Thus you might as well join them anyway.

Talk about piddling on someone's bonfire before they've even lit the kindling!
Of course independents should bother. Independents do get in occasionally, and when they do, the big parties are humiliated for their complacency.
This applies to both independents and smaller parties.

**Anthony Butcher** · 18-01-2011, 11:50 AM

Thanks for the advice everyone. I did write a reply... but it seems to have disappeared. I have started delivering my first leaflet/newsletter already. I made the mistake of calling myself the 'candidate' rather than 'prospective candidate', but I have no intention of spending a lot of money so it shouldn't matter.

My leaflet isn't very exciting visually and is text heavy. It very much focuses on the local stadium issue, with a strong NIMBY theme as the local Bristol City FC fans like to call it.

For anyone interested, I also found a useful site here:
Politically Independent Candidate X

**Citizen Stuart** · 18-01-2011, 08:36 PM

That looks like a good site, I've bookmarked that for my own use. One other tip that occurs to me - whenever you put out a leaflet, you might want to make a pdf of it available to download from your blog. It doesn't cost anything to do, so you might as well. Also design some "Vote for Me" window posters and make them available for people to download and print off at election time.

You might also want to see if there any Facebook groups and/or internet forums that are specific to your local area, and promote your blog on those. Online campaigning's no substitute for leafleting etc, but it's free.

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