To ask what you would do when local politics clashed with national

[Arseconono]

Put simply - where I live is a shit show when it concerns local politics and I would therefore vote for the independent.

however ideologically this doesn’t compare with who the party I would vote for in a general election - and would also be a wasted vote.

WWYd?

Someone once said to me that political parties were like public transport: They take you only in the general direction, and there's a bit of walking at the beginning and end. Which is closest to your ideal?