This Mary Macleod is just a Cameron Cutie
Much like Joanna Cash in North Westminster her face simply fits the Cameron idea of his modern conservative party. I understand Mary was drafted into two constituencies she had no connection with before and failed on both attempts. Why should Brentford take a 'Cameron draft' who barely set foot in the place before 2006? If she is so good why did she fail? Should Brentford people not vote for someone who does actually hail from the area and knows what it is actually like to have lived and grown up here for years?I feel suitably qualified to point this out having lived in Brentford since 2002. If you are all locals then should you be voting for someone who actually knows the place and will represent you as an MP and not someone who sees the constituency as a vehicle for their career? I wouldn't vote for anyone who wasn't properly representative of the community I have chosen to call home for the last eight years. Strikes me that Cameron's A -list and his method of drafting people in who 'fit' is all about the party not the community. That man talkes about empowering localism. Really? Since when was drafing in these people localism?Mary is just a career politician. She'd have taken any seat given to her by the Tories. Isn't this what we are trying to avoid in our parliament?Strkes me that if you want to chose localism over national politics then you can't seriously consider Mary as a suitable MP. We have local choices. We have a reasonable choice of three locally produced candidates who have a chance of winning who would do a relatively decent job. As much as it irks me we have Phil Andrews as one of those three, in this case anything is better than Mary Macleod.
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