My general guidelines is 'someone who's willing to put the work in' first, and 'less of an arse than the other guy' second.
EDIT cos I clicked send too soon: I have no idea which I would choose in your situation--it would depend if I could hold my nose long enough to vote Tory.
I'm sort of hoping that the Lib Dems will have bothered to leaflet today in order to put me out of my misery. Then I'll vote for whoever I consider to be less of a bastard D:.
I don't think I can vote Tory, but I really don't want to vote for either of the others. I'm not sure why I'm worrying about it considering that there's no forseeable situation where the Conservative won't win the seat, but still...
I can see why it would be easier voting by party at this point. But I hold that party loyalty is poor game theory :P.
I've always been really happy about voting, so I try my best to vote for who I think is genuinely going to be good at what I'm electing them for. I guess I enjoy engaging in the entire process more as a voter than someone who supports a party.
I've seen a lot of leaflets and would have to say...
The candidate who remembers to take their tie off for one snap and their jacket off for another on that one morning they spend in the ward for photos? I might not vote for them, but by candidates posing for pics standards, that's a consummate professional! (Or has a skilled person wielding the camera, more likely...)
Also, I am so very very stealing the name "Mr Not-appearing-in-this-election" to use in future political conversation.
(er yeah your post elsewhere today had me clicking through to this Quite Old Entry)
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My general guidelines is 'someone who's willing to put the work in' first, and 'less of an arse than the other guy' second.
EDIT cos I clicked send too soon: I have no idea which I would choose in your situation--it would depend if I could hold my nose long enough to vote Tory.
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I don't think I can vote Tory, but I really don't want to vote for either of the others. I'm not sure why I'm worrying about it considering that there's no forseeable situation where the Conservative won't win the seat, but still...
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I've always been really happy about voting, so I try my best to vote for who I think is genuinely going to be good at what I'm electing them for. I guess I enjoy engaging in the entire process more as a voter than someone who supports a party.
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The candidate who remembers to take their tie off for one snap and their jacket off for another on that one morning they spend in the ward for photos? I might not vote for them, but by candidates posing for pics standards, that's a consummate professional! (Or has a skilled person wielding the camera, more likely...)
Also, I am so very very stealing the name "Mr Not-appearing-in-this-election" to use in future political conversation.
(er yeah your post elsewhere today had me clicking through to this Quite Old Entry)
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