MaliA wrote:
Mimi wrote:
I’m actually a bit anxious about the election. Well, of course, because the last few have been crushing. But I specifically am nervous locally.
Since we moved to this area we’ve always had a Labour MP. When we moved, we still moved to within the constituency of the Labour MP, but since the boundary changes it has been shown that if the voting had taken place under the current constituency lines we would now have a Tory MP.
The north and south constituencies of our town plus the neighbouring satellite town have been smooshed together in the redrawing, and we are right in the edge of that lumping now (as in I could be in a different constituency if I walked about 40 steps) so I don’t want to wake up with the disappointment of having to come to terms with the fact that somehow, in this election of them all, we might gain a Tory MP. I hope it’s unlikely. But as we had I think the only council who increased the number of Tory councillors in the latest local elections, it’s just a nagging feeling.
We had a particularly right wing Tory for years when we lived in Yorkshire. I found that even though I disagreed with him on pretty much everything, when i wrote in about something local, I would get a prompt response, and then he'd chase it and copy me in on everything. It was always polite and well written.
It's massively possible they could be a great constituency MP, and just happen to vote in line with the whip.
We have Sajid Javid who is standing down (and hasn’t been seen campaigning for the Conservative candidate).
The one and only time I’ve contacted him, he did intervene at the Home Office with positive results so I can’t fault him for that.
He’s still a Conservative with all that entails, but he seemed moderate, competent, and did (belatedly) develop a conscience and refused to go along with Boris & Cummings. He was also pro-EU, but then pretended Brexit was a good idea when that became the party line.