To tell George Osborne that DH and I seperate thoughts and opinions and <gasp> women have their own votes!

[Bumperliciouzzzzzz]

Just receive a letter from George Osborne asking for my opinion on his economic policies, with a little slip at the bottom for answering questions like 'which of the following policies do you agree with?' and 'who are you going to vote for?' etc.

The thing is the letter was addressed to me and DH, and the back of the slip has both mine and DH's name on it, but low and behold, as I was canvassing him on his opinion, I found we differed! For example, I have no problem with inheritance tax, but he does, and I am going to vote Lib Dem (a tactical vote) but he is going to vote Green. So was I BU to tell Mr Osborne (politely) on the form that actually DH and I have separate opinions, and aren't going to vote 'as one'? I mean fair play, it is good to reach out to the electorate to get their view, but do it properly FFS, this is the 21st century.

Labour are the ones targetting "Take a break".

www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/apr/05/labour-campaign-male-dominated-harman

Maybe the Tories are as well. Sounds sensible to me.

I think all political parties distribute literature to the first person named on the electoral roll at each address to avoid wasting money - though might be wrong about this.

Just came back to correct my glaring error but see Ive been beaten to it!

Picked up the ST again to re-read article and realised it was Douglas Alexander. In my defence, there was another article about the Tories targeting a certain female demographic and I just appear to have morphed the two. Sorry MN and sorry George!

I've just realised it's probably because I am in a marginal constituency.

lolol oh dear clearly george got the wrath of my bad mood last night - when he emails me back i will tell him closing surestart centres pisses me off anyway .

We don't have Surestart Centres in Scotland at all - and we're Labour/SNP dominated.

oooh well labour haven't contacted me as take a break woman yet....

We get a letter from the Tories at least once a week, either addressed to me and DH together or we get an identical letter each.

We got the one from Osbourne last week and I'm going to write back asking him to stop wasting paper on us. After all, they have that scribbly tree logo - are they the party of cutting down trees or summat?

It is the Mumsnet election - shouldn't they be emailing us all this crap rather than posting?

bran DH and I also got seperate ones and probably for the reason that we also have different surnames.

TBH I'd ripped it up before I read it but the fact it was sent by DHL and not via Royal Mail annoyed more than the contents. Probably....