Pundits keep saying Rishi Sunak will hold out until the last possible moment to call a General Election, but I've got to say I wouldn't be
surprised if it came sooner. Being near the border between two constituencies we tend to get two lots of mailings (which always makes it interesting to see who's using the official party template) and so far we've had two from the constituency up the road (incumbent, who I thought was standing down but apparently not, and Labour) and now comes the news that the former Liberal Democrat incumbent is planning to stand again in the constituency I actually vote in. This makes things easier for me, as he's a good constituency MP and I like him and his values much better than I like his party, so I'm much less conflicted about casting my leftie vote for a centre-right party in the cause of getting the Tories out.
The calculus goes the other way when it comes to his Conservative opponent, who is
also a hard-working constituency MP and who I'd probably like and trust if I encountered him as, say, a friend's husband, but whose backbone unfortunately crumbles the moment a whip mutters 'party unity' in his direction. If I had an effective choice between some lazy nincompoop who only bothers to plonk his backside on the green benches if there's a cheque in it and a candidate parachuted in from party headquarters who'd never so much as had a part time job in a fish and chip shop before becoming a spad, or, even worse, one of
these ghouls, I'd be even crosser about it.
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