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  The squaring of the circle regarding Independent PPCs (prospective parliamentary candidates), with the well ingrained notion among the electorate of voting for a Party to form a Government, has occupied me ever since the last election.
  I came here, and other places also, in the run-up to the last election arguing for the election of more Independent MPs and learned the lesson that not being in a position to form a Government is an all-but-impossible hurdle come a General Election.
  
  This victory of the Respect Party is heartening (for me) nevertheless.
  
  It has been argued over at least the last two elections that the gap between the Red & Blue affords the voter little or no choice as to who to vote FOR (or indeed against). This by election points-up that fact. The fact, that to all intents and purposes there were but two viable alternatives to attract the voter: to vote for the grey-mush that is already represented in Parliament or to vote for the one that is not of that 'mush'.
  
  What I have been working on is arriving at something (a Political Party) that will form the next Government, but will be an amalgam of Independent Candidates chosen by each community from that community and FOR that community. I'm nearly there. BUT Enough of me...now normal programming will resume...

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