Voting for the party or the leader?

[View From The Top]

Who is making their decision based on the party itself & who is making their decision based on its leader?

 

I'd be interested to know.

[norwaysaint]

Not only that, but in Britain you don't vote for a party or it's leader, you vote for a person to become your MP, who can change parties if they wish, does anyone actually base their vote on knowledge of that individual?

[View From The Top]

Not only that, but in Britain you don't vote for a party or it's leader, you vote for a person to become your MP, who can change parties if they wish, does anyone actually base their vote on knowledge of that individual?

 

Good point.

[Barry the Badger]

I vote mainly based on the policies of the party, and try to find out as much as I can about the local prospective MP's before I vote, but I am also inevitably swayed by the party leader on occasion as much as I try to put that to one side.

 

For example, I'm pretty open politically, no particular allegiances and tend to look at all parties and judge from there, but there is no way I would vote for our local tory as the idea of contributing to having Cameron as PM sends shivers down my spine.

[Scummer]

Not only that, but in Britain you don't vote for a party or it's leader, you vote for a person to become your MP, who can change parties if they wish, does anyone actually base their vote on knowledge of that individual?

 

They are talking about the electorate being able to recall MP's and trigger a by-election, which would presumably happen in a situation such as that.

[Pancake]

For the local MP.

 

Which is a shame, as my Local MP and local party is/are a star but nationally his party isnt. In an ideal world I would like to be able to vote for my Local MP from Party A, a vote for Party C in the General, and a vote for the Leader of Party B to run the country.

 

Never going to happen though.

[dune]

Both the leader and the policies influence how I vote.

[Johnny Bognor]

Both,.

 

The leader (in the loosest sense of the word) will influence who I won't vote for and the party will influence who I will vote for.

[bridge too far]

The Party

[Huntingdon]

My MP is Jonathon Djanogly

 

Needless to say Huntingdon (John Major's old constituency) is staunch Tory

 

It makes voting almost irrelevant

 

There's more chance of seeing Elvis delivering charity white bags than seeing a Labour MP

[SW5 SAINT]

Not only that, but in Britain you don't vote for a party or it's leader, you vote for a person to become your MP, who can change parties if they wish, does anyone actually base their vote on knowledge of that individual?

 

I have always based my vote on what the candidate stands for - never ever voted for someone who was in favour of capital punishment!

[Gingeletiss]

IMHO, you have to vote for the policy's. There was a time you'd vote for your local MP, but they're not botherd about you, all they're bothered about, is getting to Westminster. They all succumb to this 'I'm better than you' bug.

[Ponty]

I tend to vote for the party but have been known to vote against the person.

[Saint_clark]

For the local MP.

 

Which is a shame, as my Local MP and local party is/are a star but nationally his party isnt. In an ideal world I would like to be able to vote for my Local MP from Party A, a vote for Party C in the General, and a vote for the Leader of Party B to run the country.

 

Never going to happen though.

 

This is how it should be done. Why can't things be that easy?