Election Canvassing
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Has anyone actually had a representative from any of the parties knock on their door? For the first election ever nobody has visited the area I live. I know there is still time but it is still surprising!
Janey
I bought mince pies especially for a candidate but no one has come so will keep for the real bearer of gifts and good cheer as I know he will call on Christmas Day!
Unfortunately not. As I was looking forward to throwing back all the crap they have been posting for weeks and gleefully shutting the door in one of their two faces.
None of the parties have enough members to go door to door. It is easier to contract it out to facebook etc using their advertising budgets.
Slamming doors in people’s faces achieves nothing. We need more public discourse rather than watching from afar political leaders talk to the converted or bored journalists.
Conservatives – a party whose claim to GET BREXIT DONE will go the same way as “die in the ditch”, “Brexit is Brexit” and “Strong and Stable” when it meets the reality of international politics and economics.
Labour – a shadow cabinet of well meaning but mediocre student politicos who never grew up led by a party leader whose attitude on the biggest issue,Brexit, is contrary to that of nearly all his party’s activists. He prefers the purity of opposition and campaigning to the realities of government. In all likelihood he will get to enjoy being pure for another five years.
Plaid Cymru – claim to be different to the others however their USP is that they choose different scapegoats on which to blame our woes.
Brexit party – identikit version of Plaid Cymru for people with similar mindsets who happen to grieve over the loss of imperial weights and measures rather than Tryweryn.
Lib Dems – seem so traumatized by the experience of being in government 2010 – 2015 that they appear determined never to be in a relationship, sorry, government again. Bizarrely decide on policy to just pretend the 2016 referendum never happened.
Green Party – green is in the Welsh flag but you wouldn’t know it from our politics. When you see politicians clamouring for tolls on the Severn Bridge to be scrapped to encourage more vehicle journeys, you know that the environment matters little and declarations of a climate emergency are all talk and too little action.
Ballot papers should come with a health warning – Voting for these people could seriously damage your health and a lot more besides.I’ve had Wingetts at the door trying to persuade me to sell my house and a nice lady from Slimmers World who called me a fat bastard.
Unsure which to vote for, mind.[quote quote=178042]I’ve had Wingetts at the door trying to persuade me to sell my house and a nice lady from Slimmers World who called me a fat bastard.
Unsure which to vote for, mind.[/quote]If I were you, I’d go for the lady from Slimmers World.
[quote quote=178041]Labour – a shadow cabinet of well meaning but mediocre student politicos who never grew up led by a party leader whose attitude on the biggest issue,Brexit, is contrary to that of nearly all his party’s activists. He prefers the purity of opposition and campaigning to the realities of government. In all likelihood he will get to enjoy being pure for another five years.[/quote]
Even if all of these highly original thoughts were true, I think it’s better to have ‘well meaning’ fumblers in Government than a bunch of Tory psychopaths.
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Labour – a shadow cabinet of well meaning but mediocre student politicos who never grew up led by a party leader whose attitude on the biggest issue,Brexit, is contrary to that of nearly all his party’s activists. He prefers the purity of opposition and campaigning to the realities of government. In all likelihood he will get to enjoy being pure for another five years.
Even if all of these highly original thoughts were true, I think it’s better to have ‘well meaning’ fumblers in Government than a bunch of Tory psychopaths.[/quote]
JC’s party activists (plp members) have and are the problem as far as I can see, in that they cocoon the leader into thinking that all is well with his policies etc, where as in reality a lot of traditional life long Labour voters think nothing of the sort.
Something the same as happened with Brexit outside of the London bubble.
We shall see by tomorrow.
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