Vent re Political Canvassers.

DKLS

You do realise you don't have to answer the door don't you? its not compulsory.
I have had a cheap camera wired in to the front door, and can see who is at the door, if they are uninvited or unexpected the door goes unanswered.

MamaMoo_2

DKLS wrote: »

You do realise you don't have to answer the door don't you? its not compulsory.
I have had a cheap camera wired in to the front door, and can see who is at the door, if they are uninvited or unexpected the door goes unanswered.

I often find that refusal to answer usually ends up in the bell being rung again.
CCTV is something I'm planning to wire up anyway, I ordered a DVR and a couple of cameras yesterday afternoon.
Ideally I'd disconnect the bell after 6pm, but it's hardwired and looks as if it's wired in with the fire alarm system so I don't particularly want to faff

NBLondon

I had one the other day who started the conversation by asking "Are you N---- B----?" No "Good Evening" or "I'm from the Labour Party" (mind you the rosette was a clue) or "Do you have a minute to talk?"


I was good - I slammed the door on her without answering "Who the ^&$*(%( are you to be asking?"

unholyangel

Why would you trust anything they'd tell you at the door anyway?

Most of them are notorious for promising the earth only to renege on that promise once elected.

Its often easy to get caught up in their spiel. But as the old adage goes, actions speak louder than words.

Smithers37

MamaMoo wrote: »

Because God forbid someone who was going to vote actually spent some time reading up on their options.
If people are complaining that they don't know enough about who to vote for, then why not spend some time doing research rather than waiting for someone to knock your door?

Read up on them? Like in the Daily Mail?

It's a good time to engage them. For parties such as UKIP and Green Party who have very different ideas to the mainstream, it's a chance to press them and have a conversation. Of course you're not obliged to speak to them etc however I don't think they should stop because Eastenders is on etc.

MamaMoo_2

Smithers37 wrote: »

Read up on them? Like in the Daily Mail?

It's a good time to engage them. For parties such as UKIP and Green Party who have very different ideas to the mainstream, it's a chance to press them and have a conversation. Of course you're not obliged to speak to them etc however I don't think they should stop because Eastenders is on etc.

No. Like read their websites, look at policies that they've implemented in local areas, look at what their councillors have been up to and what their connection to the local area is...
Alas, the daily mail was one of the few places I found much about what the Green Party have been doing with their power.

The people canvassing for the Green Party aren't the councillors themselves, just ordinary supporters who probably know about as much as they're told, and would be entirely useless if I were to engage them and ask in depth about policies as they aren't the people that will be getting involved and implementing changes etc.

There are many reasons why the Green Party weren't getting my vote to begin with, not just the DM article, there's also the fact that the councillors don't live near the area, haven't attended meetings, and the fact that, despite being a supposedly environmentally friendly party they send out so much advertising crap it's ridiculous. I mean really, we recently got a whole newsletter about one of the councillors a having a baby, nothing else, nothing relevant, just a birth announcement... What a waste of paper.

And quite frankly, my issue is nothing to do with "eastenders being on", more that between 6-8 pretty much everyone around here is doing dinner, bathing their kids and putting them to bed, and as such don't want to be disturbed, so some of us put signs up, some politely inform canvassers, and some just rip them a new one for ignoring both the neighbours and the signs.
Either way, I don't see them getting many votes from our road...

Herbalus

I like to put all of the "I'm voting UKIP/Green/Labour/Lib Dem" posters in my door window so that when they come round I can point them to their party's sign and say I'm already voting for them, and encourage them enthusiastically to move on to the next house.

When they ask why I have all the signs, I tell them with a bright smile that I say the same thing to all canvassers, but of course that none of the others know that I'm lying to them.

The look on their face

hollydays

notanewuser wrote: »

We don't do bedtime till 8-9pm (later in the hols) so it's no issue. It doesn't need all of us anyway.

Don't any of you work? How come you're all home of an afternoon?

.. How rude..

notanewuser

hollydays wrote: »

.. How rude..

Oh come on! A whole street where everybody is at home every afternoon?!

MamaMoo_2

notanewuser wrote: »

Oh come on! A whole street where everybody is at home every afternoon?!

Most houses around here have someone in during the day for a variety of reasons...
- moms who are on maternity leave
- parents who are full time carers for their disabled children
- stay at home moms/dads with working partners.
- unemployed
- families who work shifts so someone can be home with the kids at all times

There are 18 houses on my road, and we all know each other well enough due to kids playing together etc, and out of all of the houses there are only two where nobody in the house is at work.

There are a few families with disabled children as these houses are "disabled ready" with wide doorways, low sockets and switches, wiring in place for stairlifts, downstairs toilet etc. and so when they were built two years ago a fair few were allocated to waiting families with a need for such a house.

Yes, someone is in during the day in most of the houses here, it doesn't mean that nobody works at all...