Johan Ward engaged with me and I was civil to him, because at least he made the effort to go canvassing.
From UKIP thread:
"My neighbour and I had a bizarre interaction with the UKIP Coldharbour councillor candidate last week, when he came a'canvassing. He seems to know nothing about retail politics: he didn't announce himself clearly, and his companion lurked silently behind him. I told him that local politics is about unglamorous quality-of-life stuff, not a glorious crusade against Brussels, and asked him how, without a party machine to back him, he could be as effective as say Rachel Heywood.
I mentioned anti-social behaviour, and tellingly, he excitedly interpreted and repeated this back to me as "law'n'order". Then he confidently stated that the police would be more sympathetic to UKIP than to other parties. I pointed out that the Met is an enormously complex and diverse bureaucracy, and that his analysis was startlingly simplistic. I mentioned what I thought might be a couple of useful points that I have learned as a civilian, about dealing with the Council and Police, and his eyes glazed over.
My neighbour asked him out of interest how he got her name (obviously the electoral roll, but she didn't know that), and he said: "why should I tell you since you're not voting for me ?" and stomped off. She was rattled by this and took a picture of him, at which he called her "mad"."
