Martin Bell discusses independents and the Independent Network

Let's make 6 May 2010 Independents' Day

A message to Independent candidates and independent-minded voters.

I am writing on behalf of the Independent Network, the organisation that helps Independents help each other.

Independents have an unprecedented opportunity on 6 May to change the face of politics for good. The MPs' expenses scandal has discredited many individual MPs, the parties that allowed it to happen and the House of Commons itself. Many MPs with questionable expenses records have not been de-selected by their parties. It is up to the voters to complete the process.

This is a time for Independents to challenge the politics of the status quo; it is a time for Independent councillors either to stand for Parliament themselves or to help in the campaigns of others; it is a time to support the Independent Network by sending contributions to http://www.independentnetwork.org.uk/get-involved/donate; it is a time for the election of a group of MPs, without party baggage but with real world experience, to be a force for honest politics in the New House of Commons. They will be answerable not to a political party but only to their constituents and their consciences.




It won't be easy, but I believe that it is do-able.

If not us - who? And if not now - when?

Yours Sincerely,

Martin Bell

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News & Politics

Tags:

• UK General Election
• election 2010
• Martin Bell
• independent candidates
• Independent Network

[Nigel494949]

As a local prosepctive Town Councillor, the IN is tosh. They are supporting the Morley Borough Independents, which is a political party, but they are not supporting two local independents! How crazy. The MBIs have a whip, and they do not follow the Bell Principles.

[DumblyBrilliant]

Well said Martin.

We have to break the grip the two parties have on our Parliament and this election and possibly the next also is the greatest chance we have ever had to do so. The two party system breeds an arrogance that says, we can do anything we like and if we get voted out it does not matter because we shall be back. THAT MUST CHANGE. Vote Independent.

[SITFO]

Thank you , Martin, for all of your efforts. A true statesman, in every sense of the word. Now it's time for the British people to rise up against the party system and a news media that tells them that they only have three options.

Remember, a vote for a political party is a wasted vote. YOU have the chance to make a REAL change! Vote Independent!.

David Gale - Independent PPC - Derby North

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