We're recruiting for Mumsnet pre-election focus groups: would you like to take part?

[GeraldineMumsnet]

Would you like to be involved in three pre-election Mumsnet focus groups we're co-organising?

We're working with the Times and a polling organisation to find out what issues are important to you, which politicians you like / loathe and how likely you are to actually cast your vote.

We're planning on running three focus groups (one at MNHQ and the other two online) and you would need to be able to take part in all three.

If you're selected and take part in all three groups you will receive £100. Travel expenses will be paid for the London group, (up to £15 for those in London and up to £100 for second-class rail travel for those coming to join in from outside London).

1. The first focus group would involve coming to Mumsnet Towers in Kentish Town, London on Tuesday 23 March between 12.15pm and 2pm. We'll provide a light lunch, but we're really sorry we can't accommodate babies/children as we simply don't have the space or facilities.

2. The second focus group is online - so you would just be logging in from home (we'll send you a link) and will take place on Tues 20 April from 11.30am-1pm.

3. The third focus group is also online and will be on Tues 4 May from 11.30am-1pm.

We're looking for a good cross-section of Mumsnetters. The polling organisation has devised the questions.

The comments made during the focus groups will be used by the Times for articles in the lead-up to the general election - please note your real first name may be used and they will want to use a picture of you.

All data from this survey is confidential - participants will be screened by responses to the questions and your MN or real name will not be linked to your responses.

Sorry, but this project is only open to UK residents who are eligible to vote in the upcoming general election.

So if you're interested, and you can make all three focus groups, please click here.

Thanks,
MNHQ

language timothy

thing is it's not that much far in advance now is it? so i'd have thought the really cheapo fares are out?

I don't know. It was called something advance. Long distance train fares are such a lottery - think you just have to ask the right questions (or tell them the right info).

Maybe they knew your timetable Number 1?!

Can I just say again...

PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME

Right come on then chaps, let's get on with it shall we: what policies will be most important to you in deciding who to vote for during the election. Pick one:

(1) Education
(2) Health
(3) Sock puppets

And how do we feel about euthanasia

(1) Right in certain circumstances
(2) Morally wrong
(3) To be encouraged in the case of spin doctors.

Pick a candidate:
(1) Morally bankrupt but air brushed posho
(2) Morally vacuous but biscuit scoffing posho
(3) Anonymous chappie number 3, possibly has all his own teeth.

loath just looks wrong

I don't know ruddy. Think they'd have to tell you pretty soon to get that fare. At £142, it'd be cheaper hiring a car and driving it down (even with cong charge and parking!) I would have thought

AND DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LOATH AND LOATHE

Tis like this, trying to organise MNers

Sorry, I didn't know the caps were on

I loathe people who don't know the difference between loath and loathe...but I am loath to tell them so

I want to do it - have done the survey - but now I want to know about this photo/real name business. Will it say "This is 43 year old leftie Verruca, who posts as Hassled on Mumsnet?". Or will it leave out the Hassled bit?

I also need to know whether I will be excluded on the basis that I always blink and/or look like an alien in photos.

love it who moved!

Can I just say at this point (in case nobody else was aware) that MN can edit their own posts.

Looking at Olivia's 21.36 earlier, she failed to strike through "Oscar", but now it's properly formatted.

So now you know!

I loathe the thought of voting for one of these stuffed shirt lunatic megalomaniacs, but I am loath to waste my vote, given that women DIED for me to have it.

(this is like a quiz in Just 17 - mostly "d" - "you are the most popular girl in the world; everyone loves you")

My answers:

Sock puppets.

To be encouraged in the case of spin doctors.

Struggling with this one:-

Pick a candidate:
(1) Morally bankrupt but air brushed posho
(2) Morally vacuous but biscuit scoffing posho
(3) Anonymous chappie number 3, possibly has all his own teeth.

Which one is David Cameron? Which one is Broon? Can Broon be described as a posho?

smart arses and pedants are only allowed to be 1% of the selected group

It's you or me then, 100x

at hunker. I am usually pretty loath to bang on in such a boring way, but I need numberone to know, it's not her book. Also maybe it's affecting how she's reading it, she's thinking 'sheesh, this person is full of hate' whereas all they are expressing is a mild, unwillingness.

Anyway, the focus group. . .

My god cat is right. Stop the election crap! This is much more important. I sniff a conspiracy....

Did someone mention Whippets?

I am a reformed Whippet now...born in the North, but now a softie southerner.

Actually I could do this... run my own business... DH could look after kids... am within an hour of London..

But y'know what? I don't think I want all my friends and neighbours to see my photo in the paper, and
a) say, "Oooh - let's go and see if we can find her on Mumsnet", or
b) "Didn't know she was as raging Tory..."

We need a female PM.

I think Justine Mumsnet might juuuust do.

I do so loathe Lotharios, I am loath to tell them so.
For even when they suck up to me, I tell them where to go.
I conjugate my verbs so well, I use my nouns as names
I do not like my language moved about like many games
Cats in hats and sheep have played and it's all gone to my head. Now it's time for me to stop and slothlike go to bed.

Are you a real whippet?

From whippet to whipped then?