Lib Dems & Tories... Can they work together?

ninky_2

thanks for posting the dc email lir. this bit made me laugh...

I know how hard every supporter, member and activist worked during this campaign. I know how tough and gruelling it was. I know how tired you all feel now. You'll have blisters from all the pavements you've pounded; paper-cuts from the envelopes you've stuffed; bruised knuckles from the doors you've knocked on.


is that dc's idea of gruelling hard work???? stuffing a few envelopes and knocking some doors. blisters??paper cuts???bruised knuckles????? !!!!!!.:rotfl:

i suppose maybe from cameron's perspective putting leaflets in envelopes gruelling hard work.

i'd like him just to spend one hour in my OH's job.

lostinrates

ninky wrote: »

thanks for posting the dc email lir. this bit made me laugh...

I know how hard every supporter, member and activist worked during this campaign. I know how tough and gruelling it was. I know how tired you all feel now. You'll have blisters from all the pavements you've pounded; paper-cuts from the envelopes you've stuffed; bruised knuckles from the doors you've knocked on.


is that dc's idea of gruelling hard work???? stuffing a few envelopes and knocking some doors. blisters??paper cuts???bruised knuckles????? !!!!!!.:rotfl:

i suppose maybe from cameron's perspective putting leaflets in envelopes gruelling hard work.

i'd like him just to spend one hour in my OH's job.

I agree...a ''little over boiled'' I thought: but I think perhaps there are people who do the knuckle grazing knocking after doing their work and a lot of older people certainly volunteer I think...so for them possibly are draining and less snigger worthy?

ninky_2

lostinrates wrote: »

I agree...a ''little over boiled'' I thought: but I think perhaps there are people who do the knuckle grazing knocking after doing their work and a lot of older people certainly volunteer I think...so for them possibly are draining and less snigger worthy?

i'm not sniggering at the people who canvas door to door lir. i think it's admirable. even if it's for the (grits teeth) tories. i'm sniggering at cameron's ott concept of that as gruelling hard work. hopefully they can use some of ashcroft's donations to send out canvasser first aid kits with some bandages and tcp (tory corn plasters).

treliac

ninky wrote: »

i'd like him just to spend one hour in my OH's job.

............ which is?

lostinrates

ninky wrote: »

i'm not sniggering at the people who canvas door to door lir. i think it's admirable. even if it's for the (grits teeth) tories. i'm sniggering at cameron's ott concept of that as gruelling hard work. hopefully they can use some of ashcroft's donations to send out canvasser first aid kits with some bandages and tcp (tory corn plasters).

No, sorry, was not suggesting you were sniggering at people...more that what is hard work for your OH...who I presume is fit and able bodied though IIRC works n a hysical role, is not necessarily the same as hard work for an OAP volunteer...the volunteer might come home comparatively as ''wrecked'' IYSWIM.

As it happened, we had no canvassers by any party here!

bo_drinker

lostinrates wrote: »

As it happened, we had no canvassers by any party here!

Neither did we, I didn't see any anywhere in other areas. Doing work on our new place so trawling back and fore and didn't see anyone at all. Plenty of recycle fodder through the doors though

PrivatisetheNHSnow

ninky wrote: »

hopefully they can use some of ashcroft's donations to send out canvasser first aid kits with some bandages and tcp (tory corn plasters).

i have to laugh when labour supporters get wound up about ashcroft's donations. labour have their own non-doms, but that's beside the point...

how much of the public's money is indirectly backing the labour campaign? the tax credit budget was £20 billion/year last time I looked. i've lost count of the amount of posts I've seen that from people worried the tories will take away their tax credits. in the election campaign, labour falsely claimed we can afford to continue the tax credit system without any cuts, even for relatively high earning households. i wonder who they will vote for...

i wonder who all the pensioners labour has bribed with free bus pass, prescriptions, TV licences and winter fuel payments will vote for?

i wonder who the people in the hundreds of thousands of new public sector (non) jobs labour has created will vote for...?

treliac

lostinrates wrote: »

As it happened, we had no canvassers by any party here!

Nor did we! You're probably in the same position as us - a safe seat in which nothing is gained by canvassing. The winner was always going to win and challengers would have wasted their time.

lostinrates

bo_drinker wrote: »

Neither did we, I didn't see any anywhere in other areas. Doing work on our new place so trawling back and fore and didn't see anyone at all. Plenty of recycle fodder through the doors though

We had one set of stuff from Lib dems, one set from tories, then later a letter from tories..think that was targetted though.

treliac

PrivatisetheNHSnow wrote: »

i have to laugh when labour supporters get wound up about ashcroft's donations.

how much of the public's money is indirectly backing the labour campaign? the tax credit budget was £20 billion/year last time I looked. i've lost count of the amount of posts I've seen that from people worried the tories will take away their tax credits. in the election campaign, labour falsely claimed we can afford to continue the tax credit system without any cuts, even for relatively high earning households. i wonder who they will vote for...

i wonder who all the pensioners labour has bribed with free bus pass, prescriptions, TV licences and winter fuel payments will vote for?

i wonder who the people in the hundreds of thousands of new public sector (non) jobs labour has created will vote for...?

With all this incentive, wouldn't you have expected a higher turnout than 65% ?