The inability to grasp the nature of independents is not an exclusive Hartlepool phenomenon, then?
https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/accusations-pulling-wool-over-peoples-16629192?fbclid=IwAR2Wg1xlXZwcKefUG3WNcK-uvUjxwhRi31a2jEbmB_9xYjuAMwIBmHsYlCU
A politician is a politician. An independent politician is just as corrupt as a not-independent politician. Given the history of the IU Group are we to assume they have all had a Damascene conversion and no longer hold to their previous Party views?
And if so why is one of the IU a fully-paid-up member and elected official of a National Political Party of the hard-right type?
It all a trick and why people fall for it is beyond me.