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Originally Posted by tamashi
Quite frankly I think this is pathetic! Candidates should be able to put themselves forward anywhere they like. It is then up to the membership in the particular region to decide who they want to vote for. Knowing UKIP however and the mentality of members like you it will be the local candidate who gets the vote regardless of the relative merits of the individuals on such things as political experience, character, ability or anything else you can mention. Where you live is apparently such a major consideration that all else must be trivial in comparison.
If all else is equal then yes take the local candidate but where the candidates live should be at best a tie break question, NOT the first consideration above all others. Take a region like the South West, if you live in Gibraltar then how familiar are you with the situation in Cornwall? Or the South East, a member on the Isle of Wight might not be 100% familiar with the problems of Bracknell but they are both in the same region.
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I just lost my longer measured response to your post and can't be bothered writing it all out again.
But in brief
one can only assume that you would be quite happy for someone who has never so much as lifted a finger in a particular region, never funded or delivered a leaflet, never manned a UKIP stand at an agriculteral or other show, never recruited new local members, never badgered the press for UKIP coverage in the local media,
To just pitch up and displace a local candidate who flogs their guts out in the region all year long.
Well done you must be very proud of your views and obviously not so proud of local members working their socks off to promote the cause.
Fortunately myself and others think differently.
I'm afraid that I'm too dull to make head or tail of your second paragraph.