I just scared away the Tories, entirely unintentionally!

[DoNotFeedMeBiscuits]

We've not had much in the way of political bumf - until tonight we'd only had a flyer from the communists.

I am currently sitting in my front room which has a large low bay window. I looked up from my laptop to see a small gaggle of blue rosette wearing canvassers standing on the other side of my fence looking straight back at me, clearly steeling themselves for some campaigning. I looked back at my computer and braced myself for the doorbell ring, but out of the corner of my eye I thought I saw them moving away - I looked up again and saw them disappearing along the road! Clearly I must have looked unapproachable in my demeanour and am officially frightening for our local Tories.

Is anyone else suffering from a lack of election info through the door?!

Most of the parties have heavily profiled the voting population. Ideally they only want to aproach floating/undecided voters. Commited voters are not worth approaching. Its a waste of resources. The techniques they use ar excedingly clever. You would be amazed at what they know about you.

They probably know your sort profile already but so apparently do the Communists.

Big brother is here.

But I AM a floating voter! I remain open-minded at the moment. Mind you, I think the Tories know there's not a lot of point in Glasgow - they came a very poor 4th in our constituency last time!

We had nothing from the Tories, but we are a safe Labour seat. However thanks to Cleggmania - first time ever - we got a Liberal leaflet.

No one ever comes round here (too many stairs probably).

Actually the Labour candidate did come and shake my hand some time before Christmas but not before he'd got his lackey to run up the stairs and check my voting intentions first.

I think he was only up for climbing the 40 odd steps if he was in with a chance of winning a vote

We get LibDem, Labour & SNP fliers. The Tories don't even bother sending someone in a rosette to stand outside the polling station.

Tories fairly thin on the ground round here though.

I haven't had any but am declaring myself an anyone-but-Tory voter. In my window I have labour, green & lib dem. None of the independants have appeared yet.

Our constituency was 49% labour last time, then 19% Lib Dem, then 13% SNP - Tories got about 9%. Probably have to be quite brave to even contemplate knocking on doors I suppose!

Tory (very) safe seat here, so very little in the way of campaigning activity. One, bit rubbish, Labour leaflet and a Green party one too.

Our Labour candidate doesn't even have a profile set up on the Labour party website so we don't know anything about him. They will have to pull their finger out if the voting methods change in future.

We did get phoned up by ICM the other night though, which was quite exciting

LibDem candidate shook me firmly by the hand outside school this afternoon. Then spoiled it by trying to do it again a few yards along the road 5 minutes later. I would have asked him if he thought he might be worth a tactical vote, but he only really wanted to press the flesh and hand out leaflets.

So far we've had fliers from BNP and Labour - won't be voting for either.
Makes me sad that it tends to only be parties like the BNP that make any effort around here.

We live outside glasgow and we had a tory campaigner at the door the other day. My 2 year old was screaming the whole time about how he was the 'bogeyman'. Poor guy (not)

that's hilarious scottishmummyofone!

Were you on Mumsnet at the time?

I've had visits from 3 parties already and election information from 5. The local MP was down our way the day before the election was announced and we've had very polite people from all the three main parties. Is this because its not a safe seat - even though it looks like one?

DoNotFeedMeBiscuits maybe they saw you look up from laptop and thought, oh no, a clued-up potential voter... no chance there.

5 parties of the 6 standing in this area have put one (or more) items of election literature in for me. Only one missing is the BNP candidate (had to check BBC website to know the full list of parties standing). I think the UKIP sheet came in with the post, the remainder were hand delivered.

No Green candidate, we have the "big three" plus Plaid Cymru, UKIP {and aforementioned BNP}

Last time had Labour ~45% Lib Dem ~25% Conservatives ~20% so it will depend on how 'trusted' the Labour and Conservative party are.

Our Labour Assembly Member (in Cardiff) has had leaflets delivered twice in the past few months, but nowhere do they mention she is in the Labour party. Only clue is that she worked for the Labour MP. Seems like she is embarrassed to mention them!

DH is a member of a political party. I am not. Come election time, without fail, he gets personal communications addressed to him by the other parties. I don't. And I come earlier in the alphabet, so it's not that. And other couples in the building get one each, so it's not as if it's a "target the man of the house" thing either. Somewhere their heavy profiling of the voting population is going wrong, as I'm a reasonably genuinely floating voter who always gives serious thought to who to vote for.

scottismummy told dh this am about that and dd2 must have been listening as she asked when we saw some in town

I was on mumsnet as it happens! Don't think they could see the screen though!

Ah, but could they have guessed you were using a computer - would not matter if it was MN or playing solitaire, "using a laptop" = "clued up"!