The Whig Party candidate for Stretford & Urmston Paul Brady-Law urged UK politics to engage the public once more during the ballot count in Trafford.
Challenging the current political climate, he spoke about the lack of choice at the polling booth.
Mr Brady-Law told MM: “I’ve never known an election where things are so on a knife edge, and yet nobody cares.”
Speaking on behalf of one of the country’s oldest parties, the Whig Party candidate spoke of the need to inspire potential to voters.
He called for: “Charismatic figures possibly, but charismatic politics would be good. Politics where people could get behind bigger themes and ideas.”
The candidate also bemoaned the way that, as he saw it, Labour had let the Conservatives frame debate in the run-up to the election.
Regarding the budget deficit, he said: “The Tories are very good at framing an argument, and they are framing it in the language of we need to put some away for a rainy day or we need to pay our credit card, they use the credit card analogy a lot.”
“Whereas what we’re saying on our manifesto is that a better analogy would be me deciding to go home now and pay off the mortgage in five years, and in order to be able to afford that not feed my children.”
The Whig Party candidate also warned of trying to out-Ukip Ukip, and questioned their approach to immigration by branding the very use of the phrase ‘immigration controls’ as ‘pejorative’.
The pro-immigration candidate said: “What does it say on the statue of liberty? Send me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
“It doesn’t say send me you biotechnologists, your surgeons, and your nurses.”
The Whig Party are currently fielding four candidates nationwide