"A VOTE for me would mean..." What?

At a hustings held by Churches Together in Nailsworth the vicar of St Georges, Rev. Mike Smith gave six parliamentary candidates 30 seconds to finish the sentence.

Rich Wilson said: "If you always do what you've always done you'll always get what you always got.

"If you vote for me on the 7th May I might not win but, in the last five months we've fundamentally changed the local political debate in Stroud.

"We've got 30 candidates around the country to support us, imagine what we'll achieve in five years."

Neil Carmichael said: "A vote for me will make sure that we have a real economy that works for everybody in this constituency of the Stroud Valleys and Vale.

"We'll do this by promoting jobs for those who need them, opportunities to develop their careers, security for elderly people, improved pensions, better care of services in the health sector and in social care.

"And you'll also get a devoted person who's actually really keen to help people who need to be helped when they come to my office."

Sarah Lunnon said: "If you vote for me you'll be voting for hope, you might feel like you'd be taking a risk and I might make mistakes but you have to ask, who would I be a risk to?

"I would be a risk to the tax evaders, I would be a risk to the modern day robber barons who are making off with our commonwealth and I would be a risk to those currently committing ecocide and risking our very future."

Adrian Walker-Smith said: "As I said at the start, if you vote for me then you're voting for a fair, free and open society in which we seek to balance the fundamental values of liberty, equality and community and in which no one should be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity."

Caroline Stephens said: "Well a vote for me is for local and international democracy.

"I'll put the people first, I'll listen to the constituents.

"If they say no to the EU then on behalf of the constituents I will follow that through.

"I intend to control our borders and I intend to commit an extra £3bn to the NHS."

David Drew said: "Vote for me and I will always put this constituency first.

"I am a party politician I make no apology for that, I've always been very open of where my politics are but I wouldn't ever stand for another constituency, this is a very special consituency.

"The market towns and the rural hinterland make it very very important that the representative you chose on May the 7th is in tune with you, listens to you and is willing to act in accordance, not always in agreement because that's what politics is about.

"We have to have friendly disagreement but I hope whoever you chose you will hold people to account so we can get a better system "So I will do what I've always tried to do, keep in touch with you and do the very best I can."