to put up a political poster in my window?

[ethelb]

Just had a slightly unpleasant altercation with the neighbour who lives downstairs in our shared garden.

I put up a poster for the End Austerity Now march taking place in London tomorrow, a week ago.

She came out 'to have a word' with me about it and said that I had to take them down as it wasn't fair to have my views on the building.

I said that it was fine for me to have my posters up and they would be coming down tomorrow anyway after the march has taken place.

She said I needed the freeholder's permission (she is an owner/freeholder and I am a private tenant) and I said that I didn't.

She argued that it would have been polite and I said that I did not think that it was necessary and just left it at that.

She muttered something about it being ok if they were coming down tomorrow but it would have been polite. I just smiled and left her in the garden.

This neighbour is a difficult woman and has given us grief before, over once hanging our washing out (once in TWO YEARS) on a day she hadn't assigned us.

But maybe I should get some perspective on this single incident. Is it worth fighting over?

PMSL at suggesting the OP might be made homeless for putting up a Christmas decoration

Please tell me you're actually taking the piss?

WeekendDilemma I saw that, yes

This thread remindede of that too.

Did you see her response?.It was inspired!

As an aside, what is the actual point of political posters in house windows?

I have my views on politics, austerity, etc. Reading a convincing argument opposing my views, or having an intelligent conversation with someone with a different view, might make me reconsider my position. But a sodding poster?

Has anyone ever seen a vote Tory/Labour/whatever poster and thought "I didn't know who to support but that poster has decided it for me?

Will anyone who couldn't give two hoots about austerity have an epiphany when they see the OP's poster?

Not sure I see the point. But, it's a free country and if the lease doesn't prohibit it, then she's free to do as she wishes.

Advertising works. You don't notice it working on you usually but it does.

No one goes into a supermarket and thinks "i'm going to buy that product because the ad made it look so great" yet sucessful advertising gives a return on investment as it does influence people, me and you both, without us even knowing it's happening.

With the austerity march a poster is also presumambly providing useful info about the date of the march, where to assemble etc

"End Austerity Now" presupposes that some people love austerity, and if you attend the marches of it and other campaigns personed by the same people, they are the very large number of people who voted in the current govt.

Equivalent to the BNP if you believe the extremely loud shouts of "kill the tory scum", and in the rhetoric a party voted for by the rich top 1% of the country and never anybody ordinary that somehow manages to field millions of votes and to have a pretty much guaranteed, consistent, majority in England for most of the last 40 years and beyond, which comes to the fore when Scotland and Wales' Labour votes go tits up. Basically, a bunch of persons protesting against an imagined bogey that WANTS austerity which nobody does, and screaming that they want to "kill" the "scum" that is the popular vote, yeah down with democracy, comrade.

I wouldn't want posters of any movement like that on my building, to be honest.

*they (the "culprits") are the very large number of people who voted in the current govt.

• Conservative voters are equivalent to the BNP if you believe the extremely loud shouts of "kill the tory scum"

...sigh, I shouldn't try to type while being clambered on by a baby.