Wannabe MPs Dry Up As Cons Tipped To Lose Election 2015

DecentLivingWage

Interesting article in Mail explaining the various reasons new MPs aren't signing up in their droves to fight for Cameron and OsBean at the next election esp in the key battleground seats - have they all seen the shenanigans over the last wannabe Louise Mensch - actually it's quite a serious grass roots crisis as to have any hope of winning, they need to start campaigning in Feb! Does anyone think A listers being helicoptered in from out of area to replace local hopefuls is a good idea? (It worked for Labour with Sarah Champion.)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2251368/Does-want-Tory-MP-more.html

chewmylegoff

I think all that matters is whether the economy recovers or not. If by some miracle it does they might get elected, if it doesn't they won't.

BertieUK

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Generali

BertieUK wrote: »

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Well that's better than about 60% of the posts here. Well done.

BertieUK

It is nice to know that you do have a sense of humour after all, not that I doubted for one second.

Sorry about my last post, not sure what went wrong there but I ended up with a gigantic font size, and I cannot blame alcohol at all this time.

My point was that could not believe what I was reading in this article, to me it makes no sense at all, maybe our Learned friends can explain the positives side of why Mr Cameron went so far...........

Of course, this has been welcomed by many as overdue — but there has also been criticism that many of these people were chosen for their politically correct profile rather than for their ability.

Many were picked despite having no political experience,having never run for public office, or without any long-standing allegiance tothe Tory Party.

In the process, dozens of male, white heterosexualcandidates, many of whom had served the party loyally for years, were discarded in the rush to choose people who fitted Mr Cameron’s metropolitan, right-onviews of the world.

The deeply worrying legacy for Mr Cameron is tha this local constituency associations feel increasingly marginalised, and now they are struggling to find strong parliamentary candidates of any sexualpersuasion, gender or colour.

BobQ

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I think all that matters is whether the economy recovers or not. If by some miracle it does they might get elected, if it doesn't they won't.

Of course if it recovers a little but a little late we might end up with a small majority and a ministerial team drawn from an even less talented pool of B-list candidates who never thought they had a chance of winning.

lvader

It's always tough and unpopular to do what is right when times are hard. I still find it hard to believe that people will actually vote Ed and Balls into power, god help us.

Thrugelmir

lvader wrote: »

I still find it hard to believe that people will actually vote Ed and Balls into power, god help us.

Until there's an election called. Then idle speculation is meaningless.

GeorgeHowell

We don't want any more of the likes of Louise Mensch in any of the parties, so this sounds like a good thing.

A._Badger

GeorgeHowell wrote: »

We don't want any more of the likes of Louise Mensch in any of the parties, so this sounds like a good thing.

Fewer politicians of all kinds would be a blessing. We should be innately suspicious of anyone (particularly anyone under 40) who gets up on his hind legs and preaches to us that he or she knows the answers to all our problems.

GeorgeHowell

A._Badger wrote: »

Fewer politicians of all kinds would be a blessing. We should be innately suspicious of anyone (particularly anyone under 40) who gets up on his hind legs and preaches to us that he or she knows the answers to all our problems.

I'd actually take it a stage further. I am pretty sceptical about anyone who sets themselves up to govern us at any level, from parish councils to Westminster and everything in between.

There will of course be exceptions but the vast majority seem to be motivated by a desire for self-agrandissment, or by what they can get out of it, or both.

Very few seem to genuinely see themselves as representatives of the people who elected them, duty bound to look after the best interests of those voters. Very few also seem to take on board their responsibility to hold public servants to account, and to make sure that they act in the best interests of the communities who pay their wages. And finally very few seem to take seriously their responsibility to protect public funds and ensure that the public get good value from the large portion of their hard earned money that gets paid in taxes of various kinds.

Overall it's not far short of a complete failure of democracy.