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Labour canvasser today

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SirSamVimesCityWatch · 15/07/2023 10:59

I'm in one the constituencies with a by-election coming up.

Just had a labour canvasser (woman, mid/late fifties) knock to ask if I was voting. I said yes I would be.

She asked if I knew who I was voting for. I asked if she knew what a woman was. I told her I was a single issue voter and that was the only issue that was going to decide how I voted.

Her response: "I believe a woman is anyone who believes themself to be a woman".

I told her in that case I have nothing else to say to her, and closed the door.

I would have loved to have actually put some of the issues to her (rapists in prisons, assaults in mixed sex spaces, including schools, destruction of women's sports etc) but my heart was already racing and I knew it would be like talking to a brick wall anyway.

But anyway - at least that's a clear pile in the eye for the whole 'it doesn't come up on the doorstep' nonsense.

So, I'm either voting Tory or SDP.

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MissLucyEyelesbarrow · 15/07/2023 12:32

I've been raising this issue with any canvasser who has knocked on my door since 2013. Marginal constituency, so there have been loads of them. Yet, apparently, "no one ever raises it on the doorstep" 🙄

CoffeeWithCheese · 15/07/2023 12:31

We have a family member who is currently still suspended from the Labour Party for daring to question the "lady-feels" approach they're taking.

SunnyEgg · 15/07/2023 12:23

Good for you.

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SirSamVimesCityWatch · 15/07/2023 12:20

I've never yet voted Tory. Never thought I would. But I don't want to waste a vote on a minority party, I can't vote Labour, and I spoiled my ballot last time - this time I really do feel the need to cast a vote.

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EVHead · 15/07/2023 11:54

It’s a nightmare knowing how to vote at the moment! I’ve mostly been Labour all my voting life, not a cat’s chance in hell I would vote Tory.

Froodwithatowel · 15/07/2023 11:52

Bravo OP. Reassuring you have other candidates in the area who can offer a grip on reality as a starting point for serving the constituency.

Although I'm still left wondering htaf did we get to the point where this is even something a voter has to worry about.

Heliotroper · 15/07/2023 11:51

The follow up question should be

"Do you know what circular logic is"

MrsOvertonsWindow · 15/07/2023 11:48

Well done OP. The more of us who give this message to canvassers on the doorstep, the better.

ThisTimeIts · 15/07/2023 11:43

Your Labour woman example, is the type who now makes my skin crawl, they are Myra Hindly, enabler types with zero insight.

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SirSamVimesCityWatch · 15/07/2023 11:09

Update!

Just got a Tory leaflet through, but no knock. Chased her down the street to ask what the Tory candidate's view on women's sex based rights is 😂

Explained what had happened with the labour canvasser and she pulled an excellent 🙄 face. Said she couldn't speak for Tory candidate but she would expect it would not be that, and that it's certainly not how she defines a woman.

She has just come and knocked on the door with a bit of paper, I've given her my name and address, email and phone, she will ask the candidate to get in touch with me.

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