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Original poster

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

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Aimsmum · 10/04/2007 23:11

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bogwobbit · 10/04/2007 23:13

I'd be amazed if I ever got a canvaser (of any party) at my front door.
So far I've lived (as an adult) in 4 different houses and never seen one.

KatyH · 10/04/2007 23:15

They were obviously just embarrassed to be reminded of their long-abondoned socialist roots and so decided to beat a hasty retreat!

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Aimsmum · 10/04/2007 23:16

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Aloha · 10/04/2007 23:16

I think they get it a lot! I asked one how on earth they slept at night

bogwobbit · 10/04/2007 23:17

Had lots of leaflets too.
Also got a Christmas card from my councillor last year.

brandnewhelsy · 10/04/2007 23:17

They won't have seen one since 1994.

custy · 10/04/2007 23:19

as we are percieved as HA scum - in scumsville we dont get any canvasers.

funny that.

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Aimsmum · 10/04/2007 23:21

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Aloha · 10/04/2007 23:21

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

custy · 10/04/2007 23:22

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"

brandnewhelsy · 10/04/2007 23:23

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 .

bogwobbit · 10/04/2007 23:23

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?

bermudatriangle · 10/04/2007 23:25

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.

KatyH · 10/04/2007 23:32

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

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Aimsmum · 10/04/2007 23:34

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Tinker · 10/04/2007 23:35

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.

GooseyLoosey · 10/04/2007 23:40

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!

expatinscotland · 10/04/2007 23:41

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

They're wrong.

MrsWho · 11/04/2007 00:07

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

expatinscotland · 11/04/2007 00:08

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!

GooseyLoosey · 11/04/2007 07:14

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!

Imawurzel · 11/04/2007 07:23

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.

LazyLine · 11/04/2007 07:43

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!

purplemonkeydishwasher · 11/04/2007 07:50

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!!!!!!!!!

Twiglett · 11/04/2007 07:59

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