have you ever been canvassed?

[weltweit]

I have been leafletted by all of them now.

They all went in the recycling bin after a cursory glance.

Not been canvassed, don't want to be!

 

[butchersapron]

UKIP just been, did it proper - you voting UKIP - no. OK thanks bye.

Please please let the BNP/lib-dems come round thoday.

 

[fiannanahalba]

Being canvassed when you live in weigh the vote safe Lumpen Party seats is as rare as hens teeth, id love to be canvassed but it remains a pleasure that has alluded me......

 

[Scarlette]

But will you?

(They now have you down as a supporter, and will bug you on Thursday about voting).

For council, I think, yes, but Labour for MP, despite it being Harman. Doesn't matter if they bug me re voting as am definitely voting for someone.

 

[danny la rouge]

For council, I think, yes, but Labour for MP, despite it being Harman. Doesn't matter if they bug me re voting as am definitely voting for someone.

Fake a limp and get a lift off one of them.

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

i used to do canvassing

i actually liked it... oh dear!

 

[Sgt Howie]

Had the Lib Dems round twice already despite telling them to fuck off both times. Tories just the once and there's usually one party or another every time I go past the tube station.

 

[Proper Tidy]

I've been canvassed three times - twice by the BNP and once by Ukip. Nothing from the establishment parties. There's a moral in that story.

Not been canvassed at all this election mind.

 

[danny la rouge]

Had the Lib Dems round twice already despite telling them to fuck off both times.

This is why they can't be trusted to run the country.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Been canvassed a lot in the last fortnight. Only by Labour and the Lib-Dems, though. The Tories pretty much accept that they're always going to come in third in this area, so don't bother.
Streatham constituency Labour party are pushing Chuka Umanna really heavily, but all they've really got to sell him with is the fact that he's local and black, apart from that he's an unknown, except insofar as he's a product of a political machine a la David Lammy.
Lib-dem bloke at least has a history of doing work in the community and trying to hold Lambeth council to account, and he has a chance of taking the constituency because the Labour MP here has been lackadaisical (to say the least) since the last GE, but even so, would you. Could you?

 

[Sgt Howie]

Been canvassed a lot in the last fortnight. Only by Labour and the Lib-Dems, though. The Tories pretty much accept that they're always going to come in third in this area, so don't bother.
Streatham constituency Labour party are pushing Chuka Umanna really heavily, but all they've really got to sell him with is the fact that he's local and black, apart from that he's an unknown, except insofar as he's a product of a political machine a la David Lammy.
Lib-dem bloke at least has a history of doing work in the community and trying to hold Lambeth council to account, and he has a chance of taking the constituency because the Labour MP here has been lackadaisical (to say the least) since the last GE, but even so, would you. Could you?

Ummuna is the great hope of the Labour Cruddasite soft left, he's a big player in Compass. Was down at a friend's house in your manor, I saw his election address which carried an endorsement from Polly Toynbee praising him for being opposed to Iraq and ID cards.

My friend had also had a leaflet from the WRP - it's all go in Streatham.

 

[butchersapron]

Compass are saying vote labour (wink/liberal)

 

[Geri]

My sister got canvassed by the Tories when she was living at my dad's. She needed a lift to the polling station as she had fractured her pelvis and couldn't walk too well so she pretended she was going to vote for them so they would pick her up and take her there - when she got there she voted Labour

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

We've just had someone from the Labour party round which is the first time anyone has bothered.

 

[ericjarvis]

Yesterday the UKIP parliamentary candidate came by. I told her I'd rather poke my eye out with a stick than vote UKIP then closed the door. Hopefully she is suitably grateful that I didn't waste her time by explaining all the reasons I think her party is crap. Which is something I reserve fpr the Lib Dems.

 

[flash]

I was canvassed when I was at Uni by the local Lib Dem PPC. Genius move on their part, to this day I don't know how close the constituency was, but they were the only ones that bothered coming round to student halls to explain their policies etc. Getting the student vote is an easy leg up in student towns (providing the students are registered to vote).

 

[flash]

Yesterday the UKIP parliamentary candidate came by. I told her I'd rather poke my eye out with a stick than vote UKIP then closed the door. Hopefully she is suitably grateful that I didn't waste her time by explaining all the reasons I think her party is crap. Which is something I reserve fpr the Lib Dems.

Our UKIP candidate only lives a couple of roads over from where we are. Haven't been canvassed by him, I think he knows he's probably only good for about 4000 votes and just accepts he's going to get what he will get. Nice chap though.

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

butchers "Why behave different on a message board than you would on the doorstep?"

Different medium, different audience, very different purpose.

"If you're saying that you lie and dissemble in real life then i again express my outrage at the Greens letting you loose."

I would be disappointed if IWCA had ever let anyone loose in public who was consistently a sarcastic, cryptic smatarse but I know full well the internets is quite different from the 3D flesh / bone world.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

I used to live in a ward with three councillors, one from each main party, and where the Greens and any left candidates could make a real difference, so every year you would get canvassers from all three main ones and the greens (and I did some canvassing for the lefts) I always used to keep the Libdems and Tories talking as long as possible so they wouldn't talk to anyone else and possibly convince them or remind them.

I got canvassed by local extremely corrupt Labour candidate in another ward one time and chased him and his supporter down the street ranting and shaking my fist while wearing a scruffy polo shirt and tracky bottoms

A mate of mine who is a proper skinhead got canvassed by the BNP and chased them down the street once

 

[Nigel Irritable]

for who?

A Blairite shitbag imposed on a local New Labour branch.

 

[ericjarvis]

I vaguely remember Ken Clarke knocking on my mum's door when I was a kid, I think probably 1985, and that's one of the safest seats in the country still (Rushcliffe)- he certainly can't have been too worried abuot losing it at the time!

I've canvassed Ken Clarke.

And Jeffrey Archer, Paddy Ashdown, Jim Callaghan, Fred Mulley and Ian Gow.

Not that there's much point since it's a fair bet they won't be in on polling day, but it's satisfying marking Jim Callaghan down as "doubtful".

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Yes - today. Well technically it was Mr. QofG's as he answered the door. We were asked if we were a name we didn't recognise and then asked if we were going to vote Tory. I shouted from the sofa that we weren't and never would. I was proud of my work

 

[JHE]

This time I've been canvassed, but only by phone.