I get the point of independant candidates in the election and campagning on a specific local issue could be really powerful, but surely this relies on people knowing who you are and what you stand for and it being a very principled view (anti war etc) or a local point specific to your area.
I looked at who is standing where I live and found two independants, one has a website with some lofty but fairly pointless (IMO) centreist principles for the national agenda. There is nothing specific to Sheffield at all. What’s the point? If I want a wishy washy candidate who doesn’t really stand for anything I can vote for Nick Clegg. So what is the point?
The other is some bloke called “Jim Stop the Fiasco Wild”. Sounds interesting, I wonder what the “fiasco” is? I’ll google him. Nothing, not a web page, newspaper article, twitter account, nothing. What is the point of this? Even if he is just trying to attract the protest vote away from a spoiled ballot surely it may be a sensible idea to tell people this somehow?