Dh won't let me put a Labour poster up in the window.

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He is a Labour voter. But he doesn't want the neighbours knowing how we vote, as it's none of their business.

I did say I could put a note on it saying 'not DH' but he still said no.

He's a very private person generally to be fair, but usually lets me get my own way and he won't budge on this one.

WIBU to put it up during the day and take it down again before he comes home everyday?

Bluntness, it's to get people engaged in politics and thinking about who they'd vote for

Then put a poster up that encourages that, like the suffragette suggestion. Put one up that makes people interested and engaged in politics. Not just something advertising one party. Whatever that is.

So be a dear, you don't need to think outside the box, but just actually thinking might help you.

pig that's hilarious! Love it!

Well you put your suffragette poster up then bluntness, it would be nice to see you taking women's political viewpoints seriously instead of writing them off as the equivalent of a teenage crush

My parents had posters up in the window back in the 80s/90s. It's certainly not new.

I'm a member of the Lib Dems, but I'm still not putting a poster up. I have a pin badge I might put on my lanyard for work (work in a secondary school, so think its good to discuss politics to a degree) and I am getting my children to help me leaflet dropping the area in half term, but I still wouldn't do a poster. I live right in the middle of a UKIP/labour/conservative area (honestly it's like being in the middle of a triangle!) and I don't want to advertise where I live tbh.

I think a plain "VOTE" poster is a great idea. I might do that myself.

My lifelong Labour-voting granny always put up a Tory poster in her window just to throw others off the scent about her private voting habits

LOL

I think a plain "VOTE" poster is a great idea. I might do that myself

I'm doing this. Definitely. Fabulous idea

Dishwashersaurous

Most men had to win suffrage as well, non landowning males were only granted suffrage 10 years before women under 30.

Also you could say your second point is a reason for more men to vote as they disproportionately recieve signifcantly less social support than women even when excluding family related issues.

Either way I don't see advocating any and everyone to vote as a good idea. Voting is like owning a car or a firearm...we shouldn't be encouraging disinterested and uninformed people to blindly vote on a whim. Voting or not voting is a personal decision and this culture of trying to shame people from abstaining is wrong in my opinon.

As for OP given your reasoning been you live in 'Toryville' and you want to 'wind up the neighbours', which is in my opinion a very hostile and provocative attitude to have to them, I can understand your husbands concerns. Also i'd suggest it is this very attitude why a hell of a lot of people are no longer interested in voting for Labour...why vote for a political movement which treats you and people like you with outright hate and disdain and only Jerkly and Hyde's between condescending arrogance and half hearted pandering when they need your votes?

No one is going to see your poster and think 'crikey maybe I should vote for that terroist sympathising, open borders wanting, investment scaring Islington elite who would have us defended by two men and a paddle boat' but then that isn't your intended aim is it?

"Also you could say your second point is a reason for more men to vote as they disproportionately recieve signifcantly less social support than women even when excluding family related issues."

Can't leave that particular gem unchallenged........

Er, I was joking about annoying the neighbours.

But you're totally right. We shouldn't let the thick and uneducated vote. That would be democracy, and we can't have that, can we?

Put it up.

YABU and your DH is right. Voting is and should remain a personal thing. I think it's rather sanctimonious of people to put posters up.

However, you could cover your entire house in Labour posters, it won't make a difference. Labour have absolutely no chance at winning, won't even be close.

Yeah sure you were.

And no I said we shouldn't try and twist people's arms into voting if they don't want to considering it is a great responsiblity as well as a right. But its pretty funny you bring that point up considering its your lot who have been bleating on for the last year or just short about how Leave was voted for by thick, guilible poor people...tyranny of the majority I believe your lot were calling it.

But please keep encouraging those who don't typically vote to vote. Many times more often than not C2DE votes will benefit my side or are you just too deluded to see that the working classes aren't stupid enough to see through your thingly guised hatred and contempt for us and have had a first row seat to the shitshow of the previous Labour governments political failures.

YABU. Your DH is right.

I think it's awfully tacky to put political posters up, especially as it's a secret ballot. It's like when people put England flags everywhere when there's a world cup. It just seems tacky.

Oh no it's so tacky and attention seeking cringe. No one cares how you vote and your dh is right. It makes you look like bigoted idiots whoever you vote for sorry

"However, you could cover your entire house in Labour posters, it won't make a difference. Labour have absolutely no chance at winning, won't even be close."

You see, this is why I think in this Election, if not others, putting up a Labour poster might actually help. Because we are repeatedly being told that there's no chance of Labour winning, not a hope, not under Corbyn, etc, etc. The media in particular is like a broken record on it.

It therefore becomes a self-fulffiling prophecy, and people who would like to vote Labour will start thinking they can't, because it's a wasted vote as they won't possibly win - and therefore they won't. So on this, occasion, seeing Labour posters around, whilst it won't change the vote of someone with a strong party allegiance may encourage a nervous potential Labour voter because they can see there's more support for the party out there then they've been told.

I don't know if Labour will win, tbh. I would like them to, but I have low expectations of the general public and even then they fail to live up to them, so it wouldn't surprise me if May wins. Sicken, dismay and distress me, yes, but not surprise me.

I'll tell dd she's a bigoted idiot at 18

That's a few times you've referenced 'you lot'.

What lot? Who am I?

There were way more posters years ago, I remember almost every home having one in the 1960s.

It's kind of innocent and pre-internet, from a time when a difference of political affiliation was a far less important thing than it seems to be now.

I wouldn't.

green

Labour i am guessing

Nope. Cos she:he said Labour hates us lot.

What lot?

YABVU

Why do something entirely unnecessary that actively makes your DH feel uncomfortable? It's really not a considerate thing to do.

Has this thread changed your mind OP? Are you going to make sure you don't embarrass your husband by not voicing or advertising your political opinions.

I'm going to print a VOTE poster and put that up instead.

You have a choice.

(A) Be an entitled arse and do what you want.

(B) Have some respect for your partner's feelings.

I think that voting intentions are very personal and if your H wants to keep any political leanings private then you should respect that and forget about the poster. Sticking a 'not DP' note underneath it is just daft.