Voting is Pointless because I have a strong-interest in Democracy

[Idaho]

The doctor was certainly a bottom up, hard-work-wins story deserving of praise. The anti corruption media insider media circus, much less so.

[Pannonian]

I remembered some details wrong, but not the salient ones. Reg Keys got over 4000 votes standing as an independent for the Sedgefield constituency in the 2005 election. Blair was elected with 24,000 votes, but Keys ran the Tory and Lib Dem candidates close. As a comparison, the UKIP candidate got 646 votes compared with Keys's 4252 votes.