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Originally Posted by [Malks] Pixie
I can understand that perception but quite a few MP's do do significant work for helping their local community
I dealt with a number of MP's regional offices in helping solving issues for their local residents when they were getting the short end of the stick from government departments
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I'm not against having a local MP's office, I think that is a great idea, able to provide the above support, just don't want to limit who I can vote for based on who is local.
I assume that the local MP is decided by the FPP method of counting, Ie winner takes all? If you're voting for one of the "smaller" guys, even though they might be fantastic, if they don't win the whole electorate it feels like a wasted vote, resulting in voting for the most popular MP who is opposite to the one I hate the most.