Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Update on Richard Holden and the Basildon and Bilericay local association" video.

  1. I can just picture the Basildon Billericay constituency leader on the phone to Sunack. “But Rishi, we already have an MP, with whom we have a good working relationship, serves our interests in the community, is known by the locals and whom has earned our loyalty! You can’t just eject him to make way for some mainstream party wonk, who will never be here, never do surgeries and who doesn’t know any of us, let alone what the community needs! . . . You want us to betray the MP who has worked so hard for us and LIVES here? Where do you think you are? Westminster!?” 😂
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  2. As to your vote this year, I wouldn’t deign to tell you how to vote, but I do have a suggestion. From all of your videos it is clear to me that you are one of the most knowledgeable and authoritative voices on British politics out there. So, you must know that it’s more important right now, not just to get this particular brand of Tories out, but to lay down a lesson for the ages about who we are as Britons. I am hoping that the Tories do not even retain opposition status after this election and that the message becomes clear: The more far right wing your politics, the less chance you have of achieving power. This election cycle promises at least that much opportunity. Whether the British people take it or not remains to be seen. But, for myself, I have joined the tactical voting scheme that has grown and organised itself rather brilliantly around the country. They have websites which make it really easy to find out which candidate stands the greatest chance of defeating the Tory candidate in your area (and is not right of them politically) which they regularly update with the latest quality polling information. That information becomes vital in marginal seats. In my area, in the East of Scotland, it is not the same, as the Tories don’t traditionally do well here anyway. But I have spread the word to my friends and family all around England and Wales, (I don’t know anyone in Northern Ireland) and given them the links showing them how easy it is to get genuinely helpful guidance, if your aim is simply to irradiate the Tories as a political entity. Sorry, to get to my point: Please consider a tactical vote? If not, I would love to hear you account for why you think tactical voting is a bad idea, or just not for you personally; but, of course, I fully respect your right not to account for anything, let alone disclose your voting intention. Yet you did discuss it to some degree there. With the campaign itself, having gained so much traction around the country, I do feel it is a worthy topic for your channel and you may like to share some thoughts on it in a more generalised discussion, perhaps? Your output is so vast that it’s quite possible that you have already done this and I have missed it? Much as I’d love to see all of your videos, I cannot fit them is with everything else I’m trying to keep up with right now. But if you have already discussed tactical voting, perhaps you could direct me to that video? Edit: I should add that the tactical voting website also gives helpful information on the local issues in your area, the voting records of the candidates and any public record titbits about their speeches, or other relevant facts about these candidates, that a voter may feel it is important to know.
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