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Originally Posted by lchoy
Just throwing it out there
The Conservative governement is really tightly controlled so that people aren't voting for an individual anymore but the party line. Unless the MP candidate is unusally powerful, who ever you vote in would normally just vote the party line. That may turn off potential voters
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Why would anyone run under the banner of a certain party and then oppose most of what that party stands for?
I agree, there can be certain issues where you have to make the decision not to toe the party line, but I think that should be the exception and not the rule.
And I think that if there is a constituency that for whatever reason has an electorate that strongly believes in something or opposes something, then it is up to that electorate to choose the person that will truly represent them and their views.
Now there can and should be parliamentary reform regarding some matters as well. For instance, how do you think the people in a constituency feel when the person they voted in, representing a certain party, crosses the floor and sits with another party? Personally, I do not think that should be allowed to happen.