Is it true that you answer every question with a question.

"who told you that?"

One more point

If you expect to see anything more than unrealistic promises to address voters deep seated prejudices during an election campaign, from anyone, then you are being wildly optimistic.

I disregard all of them. I don’t even bother to read them. I’ll look at real proposals made by a government when they are in a position to actually do something.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

I will vote for the candidate I trust to represent me. Not for a party. Or any promises made by parties.

I then delegate the decision making to that person. That’s my approach to representative politics.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Fine except how do you know the candidate and I am not being confrontational. I sympathise with your ideals. We have a new Tory candidate in Beckenham I have no idea who she is or how reliable or trust worthy she is.

I could go to meetings but what's the point she will say whatever she thinks the voters want to hear so unless I know her personally it's a lottery.

My benchmark is where you and I disagree. MP's are voted in on an election manifesto unless during the campaign a candidate publicly deviates from the manifesto I expect them to keep their word.

It's why I despised the Tory MPs who in the Theresa May GE said they supported the referendum results and then voted against it. It was quite obvious that unlike Ken Clarke who made it clear he was pro EU they were liars and deceived the electorate.

So unfortunately my strategy for selecting an MP only works after they have been elected and proved themself.

One more point

This sort of revisionism is such a crock of s***, it's quite funny.

Quite literally everything promised by the Leave campaign has not come to fruition; cheaper weekly shop, better NHS performance, lower immigration, cheaper energy bills, more trade with the rest of the world, easiest trade deal in history etc. etc. etc.

None of it has happened, and everyone who told you it would has sailed off into the sunset... and still the penny doesn't drop that you were sold a crock of s***.

In fact, Farage comes along with exactly the same sales pitch he had 8 years ago, and a good percentage of people still bloody buy it.

Now that is funny.

Edited by EverybodyDannsNow (05 Jun 2024 10.30am)