Separate Moan Thread About The Election

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  1. gks

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    What's a leaflet? All I have had pushed through the door has come from the PO and Amazon, which was the same for the last election and the one before that and the one before that and so on.
     
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      Just had our first canvasser call at the door. The last time it was Norman Fowler!

      Still no leaflet from the Greens.
       
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        I don't think I've had leaflets for the Greens or LibDems and I've voted for both of them in the past, a bit disappointing. I probably won't vote for them this time but it would be nice to know what they're proposing! :dunno:
         
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        Only if they are worth more than a tenner! :biggrin:
         
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        I've had flyers from all parties and significantly more from the yellows that are trying to unseat the blue MP; all have gone straight to recycling. I've had a yellow knock on the door asking my opinion and what's important so I told him and he slunk off looking miserable. Postal vote has already been returned but the results and the end to this amateur theatre can't come quickly enough.
         
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            I tend to have that effective on visiting political canvassers ... and Jehovah's Witnesses. (I think I may be blacklisted as both groups seem to be avoiding an encounter. :biggrin:)
             
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              The reaction that I didn't like, on the very same night the result was announced, was to riot.
               
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                Cor, your garden tools must be worth a fortune! I mean, a lot of them are surely antique! ;) :biggrin:
                 
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                  Maybe I am too - I've only had the Lib Dems round. Perhaps it was me, an election or two back, chasing the Tory lot up the street to give them their 'recycling' back and telling them not to darken my door again. The F word may also have been used.
                   
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                    Probably saving ink and paper.:biggrin:
                     
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                      By them or you.:whistle:
                       
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                        Perhaps just as well I don't post on Facebook/Twitter or WHY as I have been known to say " I could murder a cup of tea/glass of wine "
                        Not long to go now so here's hoping that at least some of us get the result we were hoping for and if not, that we are able to see some improvements without feeling the urge to glue ourselves to No. 10.
                        PS I believe there was a mention previously that this thread would be closed after the 4th - I agree with that otherwise presumably it will simply continue for the next 5 years :)
                         
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                          I've had the leaflets, a knock on the door and now a phone call. I was in the garden at the time.
                           
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                            Phew! That lets me off the hook then.

                            On a more serious note on the subject, although I agree with inheritance tax and that it should apply equally to all people I have a problem with working out below what level the tax should not be applied and how we make it equitable seeing the enormous disparity of the value of property between the south and the north.
                             
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