Who is your MP?

[Mesterh]

I dont know who mine is and im not looking them up (it is a Labour one)

 

Does that make me an idiot as when I vote, I vote for the party I want to be in power rather than voting for my local MP, thats how I see it in my mind not how the system works.

 

So, I simple one, do you vote for your local MP regardless of which party they represent or do you vote for the the party the prime minister you want in power works for? Thats a double or maybe quadruple question btw.

 

Just trying to understand how this politics game works in case I have to vote sooner rather than later.

[Sussex Groundie]

We voted for our MP who lost last election by 700 votes. Do not like his Party but like the good work he has done for the Town, each to their own I guess first time we have ever done this.

 

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[agg221]

When I was growing up the local constituency regularly changed hands and my local MP was Bob Dunn (conservative). He became a junior minister in the late 1980s/early 1990s. The Channel Tunnel rail link was being planned at the time and was infamously drawn as a straight line on an out of date map. Bob Dunn was the person who stood up in the House of Commons and pointed this out. It cost him his ministerial career, but the seat was his as long as he wanted it.

 

These days, I live in a constituency which is such a safe conservative seat that nobody even bothers to canvas, the MP doesn't bother to visit the area (he's one of Boris' mates from somewhere in South London and clearly doesn't fancy crossing the river). Voting is therefore a pointless exercise since it makes no difference - still couldn't bring myself to not do it though!

 

Alec

[the village idiot]

It would be interesting to see what would happen if all aspiring MP's had to stand as independants in elections. They would be more free to articulate their personal stances on things, and we could vote for them accordingly.

 

The problem with Party politics is that when it comes to vote on things to be enshrined in law the MP's are whipped (ie. threatened) into following the party line.

 

The 650 independant MP's could vote to determine who holds the position of Prime Minister.

 

This proposition is probably riddled with problems, but I am struggling to see them off the top of my head.

[Mull]

It would be interesting to see what would happen if all aspiring MP's had to stand as independants in elections. They would be more free to articulate their personal stances on things, and we could vote for them accordingly.

 

 

 

The problem with Party politics is that when it comes to vote on things to be enshrined in law the MP's are whipped (ie. threatened) into following the party line.

 

 

 

The 650 independant MP's could vote to determine who holds the position of Prime Minister.

 

 

 

This proposition is probably riddled with problems, but I am struggling to see them off the top of my head.

 

 

That's bang on vi!

Unfortunately most things are governed by greed, if you're not greedy you will struggle to change things I think☹️

 

 

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[nepia]

Same here Alec; ours has been nicknamed locally Invisible Sam (Gyimah). Spends his days at Westminster it seems grooming his career, doesn't appear much in his constituency.

[s.varty]

Heres mine:001_smile:

[peatff]

Heres mine:001_smile:

 

Penny Mordaunt of Splash fame.

[s.varty]

Penny Mordaunt of Splash fame.

 

:thumbup1:Should of put her on "favourite girls" ,ive seen a lot worse on there.

[se7enthdevil]

funny thing is, the PM should be my mp as i live in maidenhead but there is a funny set of boarders right where i am so i actually get a guy called dominic grieve.

 

no one canvases round here as we've been conservative since year dot.