please empty your brain below

They should ban lawyers from becoming politicians - all they seem to do is pass more laws and add complexity to create work for their mates.
What a "choice" they are! Even if it wasn't raining i would not go out and vote for any of them.
With due allowancw for your writing style, it sounds like your current MP is rather sensible (except for an aberration when it came to nominating the current leader of the party) and all the others are only making a token attempt.
“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”

George Washington
During the last Tower Hamlets mayoral election campaign we were sent a booklet of all candidates' pledges. I think they got a page or two pages each. Some of the independent candidates had clearly not proofread their work. One was littered with so many spelling and grammatical mistakes it took all my resilience not to take a red pen to it and tweet the result.
For people who aren't in your constituency, I have made 650 Twitter lists - one for each constituency.

http://twittelection.co.uk/
It does seem that the political parties have been caught on the hop buy this surprise election and have been desperately rushing around trying to find suitable candidates; in my home town of Exeter, which is presumably a big Tory target, the Tories took weeks to announce their candidate and the bloke they finally found is pretty uninspiring and seems to have lost more council elections than he has won.
Just a very minor correction to your ever brilliant writing DG, and that is that this may not be the last ever election to the Bethnal Green & Bow constituency! The Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster Constituencies is continuing despite the unanticipated General Election, but as the Review had only reached the Second Consultation stage, the Boundary Commission can still amend their recommendations before presenting a final recccomendation to Parliament.

The Boundary Commission have released the following statement about how the ongoing General Election has affected their work, but how it has not affected the timetable which they are working to:
boundarycommissionforengland.gov.uk/statement-on-the-general-election/
>>'Independent' can be cover for all sorts of things when you stand in Tower Hamlets<<

How very tactfully put.
surely whom?
@Philip Brown
The 2015 General Election was also supposed to be the last one fought on he existing boundaries. The Commission doesn't report until September 2018, and it will be some time after that before the boundaries can be formally approved, so there may even be time for yet another one.

There were two elections 17 months apart in 1964-66, and just seven months separated the two elections in 1974.
Timbo: indeed. The fixed term parliaments act was supposed to put paid to such nonsense. But it didn't suit Theresa, and mysteriously Corbyn acted like a turkey voting for Christmas with his "bring it on", so we're back to those days again, where the party in power has this very powerful lever at its disposal.
Any more local thoughts from local people?
To be pedantic, George Galloway didn't bugger off to Bradford until 2012. In 2010 he tried and failed to be elected in next door Poplar & Limehouse.

dg writes: Updated, thanks.
It wasn't prorogation that meant Ali stopped being an MP; Parliament is typically prorogued at least once a year.

She stopped being an MP upon dissolution a week later.

dg writes: noted
My local MP for Poole, Robert Syms is priced at odds of 1/300 to win. He basically turns up at Poole arts centre once every 5 yeas, wins by a ridiculous margin and goes back to one of his many houses.










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