It’s a fair comment, I am unfortunately in that position.
I have considered voting for a smaller party knowing it would be a wasted vote in our first past the post voting system, though it won’t count, but at least I’d be saying I REALLY WANT THIS (I can appreciate that mindset). I’ve looked at smaller parties and nothing draws me to them, my politics has me between Labour and Liberal Democrats, so as I’m not that happy with Labour currently the obvious choice would be Lib Dems, but then it’s a wasted vote in my area :-)
I currently still plan to vote Labour, if we had proportional representation I would be drawn to the Lib Dems for a change, if they could get 150 MP’s they’d have some power, especially under PR with smaller parties like the BNP/Greens/UKIP taking seats as well: 5% of the popular vote for the BNP theoretically gives them 30 MPs under PR.
If an independent impressed me then yes I’d consider voting for them, even if it was on a single issue that I cared passionately about. I’d have to be really impressed with the person, I wouldn’t vote for a celebrity for example, just because they are a celebrity (that really winds me up)! I don’t know anyone personally who’d want to stand as an independent and yes I’d consider helping out**.
**The fact I’ve created this site and dedicating far more time to it than any of my other sites (that pay the mortgage) tells you I’m interested in politics beyond moaning about MPs down the pub.
BTW you got the comment threading right, the post you commented on has a lot of responses below it, so it looked like it wasn’t in the right place (deleted the comment about the comment threading).
David
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