However the best candidate will get 3-line whipped by their party leader and so even if your local MP is the dog's, they still invariably vote along party lines for all major issues. Therefore you ARE voting for a party, like it or not.
Can't vote Tory for as long as *any* of these guys hold major roles. Decided that after the Barnard Castle business. Therefore I have effectively disenfranchised myself, probably for good (or at least until there is a new centre ground party not following Keynesian economic policy but is...