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Is MNHQ BU to ask you to answer this question?

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RowanMumsnet · 16/10/2019 10:57

Hello

We at MNHQ are getting a few media queries about whether MNers are worrying about travel over the half-term because of... oh, you know what (Brexit, October 31 'exit' date).

We couldn't see lots of you talking about this elsewhere so please indulge us by answering our poll - in which

YABU = I have cancelled, delayed or avoided half-term travel abroad that I would otherwise have gone ahead with

and

YANBU = the October 31 Brexit/exit date has not affected my travel plans this half term (including those of you who had no intention of travelling abroad then anyway)

Also do feel free to tell us more generally what you think about this issue so that we'll have something to say on the radio

Thank you and apologies for the appallling mis-use of the AIBU poll function

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RowanMumsnet · 16/10/2019 10:57

Sad it hasn't given me the poll option. Curses

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RowanMumsnet · 16/10/2019 13:42

@30to50FeralHogs that brings me neatly to another question that's being asked:

Of those of you who do have plans to travel to other EU countries over the next few months, who's confident that they have travel insurance that will cover you/your family for health emergencies (eg if EHIC scheme suddenly no longer applies)

Apologies for the non-appearance of the poll, folks - I think it might not be available to MNHQers Shock

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RowanMumsnet · 16/10/2019 13:43

@Erismorn

I haven't cancelled plans, but I am slightly concerned as DD2 is due on the 22nd and my hospital is just off J10 of the M20. I live near to J11 and, if the M20 is knackered then there is no way of avoiding the disruption on either the motorway or the surrounding A and country roads.

If I go overdue to the point of induction then it will be the 1st November.

They are planning to re-implement Operation Brock on the 28th, and if Brexit does happen on the 31st I am apprehensive about the traffic between us and the hospital. I've been warned it could be very quick this time (advice is to call an ambulance if needs be).

I'm aware that mine is an entirely selfish concern, but that doesn't stop it hovering at the back of my mind.

Oh gosh - very best of luck - hope it all goes extremely smoothly

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RowanMumsnet · 16/10/2019 13:44

@NerdyBird

Including people who don't plan to travel anyway will contaminate your data, as most of the reasons for not travelling will be unrelated to Brexit. Who are your media enquiries from?

BBC local radio at the moment - we wouldn't present this as anything other than a very rough straw poll of people who happened to see the thread (and happy to include your point about people having other reasons for not travelling)

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RowanMumsnet · 16/10/2019 14:11

@Somerville

Apologies for the non-appearance of the poll, folks - I think it might not be available to MNHQers Grin Grin

Would you like one of us to start it for you, LOL

Being able to use Talk functions really should be one of the perks of this job...

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RowanMumsnet · 16/10/2019 14:38

[quote flouncyfanny]@RowanMumsnet

I've never had an option of voting on anything. Is there something I need to enable in my settings, have I offended MN or is it just that the whole world hates me?

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I suspect there's a whole bunch of things I don't understand about this but some AIBU threads definitely, definitely have polls on (I'm not imagining that. Am I?)

Usually I think it's up to the OP whether to include a poll or not - you get prompted to make a choice about whether to include one when you start an AIBU thread.*

*Unless you work here, APPARENTLY

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RowanMumsnet · 16/10/2019 15:59

@TenPenceMix

YABU for the kiss at the end. Smile
Shock
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RowanMumsnet · 16/10/2019 16:04

@coconuttelegraph

From what I remember when it was introduced an individual poster doesn't choose to have voting buttons, it's determined by MNHQ for certain posters.

Right I think I've got to the bottom of this now: everyone (including me apparently) should see the option to start a poll when they start a thread in AIBU (see screenshot attached)

However it seems slightly shonky and doesn't always appear - we're seeing if we can work out what's happening

Is MNHQ BU to ask you to answer this question?
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RowanMumsnet · 16/10/2019 16:13

@Timeywimey10

YABU @RowanMumsnet for starting this thread here because there is a Brexit board to which MNHQ has regularly shifted threads for the past 3.5 years Agreed!

Get the feeling there's a backstory here Grin I know when I worked on the site/mod team, we were pretty constantly being asked by some users to move xx sort of threads into xx topic, then getting complaints from others about xx sort of threads being moved. (For ages we used to get people reporting AIBU threads as not being proper AIBUs...)

It's one of those situations where we can't please everyone - there will be people who are sick to the back teeth of Brexit and really don't want to see any discussions about it, so they'll have the Brexit board hidden and would like to have all Brexit threads in there. And there will be people who want to have those discussions on the wider boards. And there will be those who absolutely do not care either way.

In this case though we wanted to get as wide a range of responses to the q so posting here made sense

Also I wanted to do a POLL

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