To expect not to be ridiculed by a Labour canvaser at my front door?

I'm a Wursel- Its local elections soon so do you like your town (does it seem well looked after/organised/police around stuff like that) if you do vote to keep the same people if you don't vote to change them!

I had someone knock on my door at election time a few years ago and ask 'Would you like to meet John Redwood?'
I almost said 'How much will it cost?'
Presumably he is too important to waste his time going to houses where he might be unappreciated.

I met whatsisname today, David Cameron!

We don't tend to get canvassers here either as most of the local bods know that my brother belongs to the opposition to them so therefore we're the Untouchables as far as they're concerned as they assume that 5 adults in one house all vote the same way .

Idiots - it would at least be a laugh to read their spiel . I always hand my ballot card to another party as I exit the polls just cos I can.

But even if i did vote for one, i wouldn't know who to vote for.
I'm rather dim on the world. Don't read papers,or watch the news. If radio is on my brain switches off when the news comes on.
It just all muddles my brain if i even try to understand half of whats going on.
Make sense??

you must have some sort of leanings even if its just from which newspaper you read (hence me being a bit of a snob about newspapers )

Agree with Purple.... everyone should vote.
I have to say though that I dont really understand politics, they all seem as bad as each other.
When I started work I said to a bloke I worked with that I didnt "get" politics and he said "its simple, if you have money you vote conservative, if you dont you vote labour. That was 20 years ago so not sure if that applies now.

I've never had a canvaser of any party knock on my door, ever!
Last time round, for the Scottish elections the MSP and MP and whoever else went to all the Officer's houses near me, but didn't bother anyone else.

I think I'm most probably unreasonable because I get really cross that someone else feels they have to right to know how I intend to vote

and they try to ask me by phone call and door to door

feck off .. its my business not yours

see? totally unreasonable

Imawurzel - YES you are wrong not to vote. EVRYONE should vote. Even if (like my DH) you just spoil your ballot (even though I disagree with that cause i think that even if he doesn't want to vote FOR someone he should vote AGAINST someone else IYSWIM! but i digress...)
Anyway! if you don't vote you have no right to complain about or celebrate anything that the government does.
VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!!!!!!!

Had a Tory leaflet through the door yesterday with pictures of the 2 candidates on. It looks like an advert for The League of Gentlemen 50 years from now!

Am i wrong not to vote ??
May do when i'm older and listen more and interested in it.
I don't think they do what they say half the time anywho.
That's my thinking. MAybe i am wrong.
I will decide when i have LO's what to do.

Doubt it expat - no fundamentalist zeal here - they would probably just pass the message on to the satanists in the office down the hall in the spirit of multiculturalism!

I wonder if a sticker of a pentagram will be as useful here as it was for religious canvassers in the US.

That worked a treat there!

I return the Tory leaflets with a 'please recycle your rubbish instead of posting it through my letter box'

They go away when they hear my accent. They automatically think I haven't got the right to vote here.

They're wrong.

In my younger more idealistic days, I used to canvass (couldn't really give a stuff now how anyone else votes I'm afraid), so be nice to them if they do come around - its a rubbish thing to do!

Our Lib Dem one almost let himself into our house without knocking (we shouted thinking it was an intruder) he's so keen to get our votes. Most marginal seat at last GE may be why.

I think a lot of candidates coerce unsuspecting family and friends into helping them canvas. My colleague's lovely new wife is standing for the Tories and has managed to persuade her new MIL to help with the campaign despite 4 decades of voting Labour! Might explain their unwillingness to persuade you to vote otherwise

I got a phone call yesterday from the lib dem candidate asking if I'd decided how I was going to vote - so I said "no" (to maintain an air of mystery)and he just said "oh, OK then" and hung up! No attempt to sway me at all! I was most disappointed.

Hmm, wonder why I don't get any.
Am I scum too and always have been or have I just always lived in such strong Labour seats that none of them felt the need to bother?

I legged it to the front door when our labour bloke came round, fancied a bit of a chat and a bait - he stuffed a leaflet in my hand and ran. Mind you, I realised after he'd left that I had my top on inside out. Maybe that's what did it .

i swear - exluding tories - if the ' pink party wanting pink everywhere with pink policies on pink paper knocked at my door - i would say "well done you just won my vote"

I live in a very, very marginal council district - hence the canvassers.