Conservative Candidate @karlmccartney Gets Ruder Still

If you’re in Lincoln and haven’t yet voted, I strongly urge you to vote for an MP that actually cares about people and listens without giving blunt and patronising answers.

Candidates I would suggest are Reg Shore (Liberal Democrats- though obviously I would say him first as I am a member of them!!), Gary Walker (Independent Candidate) or Gillian Merron (Labour). There are BNP, English Democrats and UKIP but they all seem to share the same essentially white supremacist feelings.

Anyway, here’s the latest from @karlmccartney

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Karl McCartney
Date: 27 April 2010 10:48
Subject: Re: My vote should count
To: Gary Watts

Dear Gary,

and your home address is?

You and I both know will not be voting for me. Your views are simplistic and tainted by the political party you support.

No.

Kind regards – I won’t wish you luck in your election for obvious reasons.

Karl
On 22 Apr 2010, at 11:56, Gary Watts wrote:

From:
Gary Watts

Dear Sir or Madam,

I live in the constituency you wish to represent in Parliament.

As a candidate in the election you are asking me to vote for you.

But I would first like to know if you understand the need for real change in this election. According to recent polling, there’s a possibility that the party that comes third in terms of share of the vote will actually have the largest number of seats in Parliament.

Whatever your party, I hope you agree that this is grossly unfair to voters and a perversion of our democracy. Our “winner takes all” system of first-past-the-post is broken. We need and demand change.

As a voter in your constituency, I want you to know that I will only support a candidate who will commit to a referendum on the introduction of a proportional voting system during the next Parliament.

Will you make that commitment?

Thank you.

Gary Watts

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