Labour only seem to want my husband's vote.

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We have had reams and reams of leaflets and letters and 'free magazines' from the conservatives through our door. Each bit duplicated, one addressed to me, one to DH. I was starting to get a bit annoyed with the waste, until we started getting stuff from labour - only ever addressed to DH. What's that all about then?

Your not wanted as a Blairs Babe. Look at the disaster the others turned out to be. I wouldnt trust Harriet Harman to organise a birthday party in a creche.

They use the first named at the address on the electoral register. This is usually the man as there are more male names near the beginning of the alphabet and more female names further back. SNP used to do this but after protests from the women in the party ( and the Williams, Toms etc.) we now do one for each voter rather than one per houshold. Labour may have to resort to this tactic because the party is skint!

That's interesting Granny23, I figured it was something along those lines, as DH and I have different surnames and his is further up the alphabet than mine. It seems strange though to bother with the 'personal touch' by addressing them individually, but then potentially offend half of any couple, or other adults sharing a house.

(Not that I'm mortally offended, just was a bit bemused)

The tories certainly seem to have cash to throw around, given how much bumf we've had through the door.

Are they letters, or more general stuff? If letters, they might be targeting just their supporters or potential supporters - maybe he's told a canvasser in the past that he's a Labour voter/potential Labour voter, but you haven't?

We've both had identical letters from George Osborne Count yourself lucky. He's kindly supplied Freepost envelopes though so am considering carefully my "weighty" response