Obtaining someone's address from the electoral register

Valli

fluffnutter wrote: »

It happens all the time! People vote for parties, not individuals and if you're a lifelong Tory voter then that's what you'll vote even if the MP in question has been shafting his expenses for years, or some other dubious activity.

See also Labour/Lib Dem etc. It's the same across the board.

True enough. Don't know why I'm surprised, really. Must be my eternal optimism and tendency to see good in people.:cool:

Mimosa

Fluffnutter, no it would not help if he was Labour. I just wondered if it was above board in him accessing my address on the basis of a chat at the till. Let me see if I can PM you. Am new to this, sorry.


Valli, I know you think I was asking something pertinent to him and his party, but I was commiserating on his moan about that very development and the fact that the council don't want it.
I also talk to many many customers about things that interest them. The lady with her dogs, the bloke with cats, the chap with some medical issues - they talk about them, I respond and I am very friendly with them. I am by no means alone in having regular customers who would rather wait in a queue and be served by me so they can have a chat and a catch up. I am comfortable with them. I am not comfortable with him - hence my chatter in the face of silent staring.

fluffnutter

I'm with you, Mimosa. I think it's intrusive that he's sought you out and come to your house to discuss further what was simply a bit of phatic communication on your part.

Mimosa

And now I must leave you all. Kids, husband and animals are wanting to be fed. Thank you all for your input. I shall return tomorrow to answer any further posts.

Valli

Mimosa wrote: »

Valli, I know you think I was asking something pertinent to him and his party, but I was commiserating on his moan about that very development and the fact that the council don't want it.
I also talk to many many customers about things that interest them. The lady with her dogs, the bloke with cats, the chap with some medical issues - they talk about them, I respond and I am very friendly with them. I am by no means alone in having regular customers who would rather wait in a queue and be served by me so they can have a chat and a catch up. I am comfortable with them. I am not comfortable with him - hence my chatter in the face of silent staring.

Ah - I didn't know he had opened the conversation - I was under the impression your question was the opener, so I apologise. And I know that customer-facing roles usually involve a degree of 'friendliness' from the employee; I have worked in those roles. He has, IMO, overstepped the bounds because he has interpreted your comment as interest in his party.

So I would be limiting my conversation with him as outlined above and hoping he gets the hint.

j.e.j.

Valli wrote: »

When you answer the door just say you don't wish to discuss it; you have made your decision and that's all you're prepared to say. Whatever you do don't say you're undecided.

If saying 'no' is too difficult get a 'no canvassers' sign on the door!

There are loads on google, I might print one off. Which do you think

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Janepig

Mimosa wrote: »

Valli, you are right in all you say. I am very chatty and happy normally and have some truly lovely customers who are regulars. However, this man is just so ... odd. I have no other way to describe him. He has been pulled up for inappropriate behaviour several times, had lied about it when confronted and then very ungraciously apologised and has received the appropriate training courses. I don't read the local paper so was unaware of much of this until doing an online research.

This rings a bell - there was a feature on Jeremy Vine afew months ago about a councillor whose behaviour was really inappropriate and there's been a fuss about why his council/party don't get rid of him but apparently you can't "sack" someone who has been voted into power. I wonder if this is the same man (can't remember his name, where it was or what he'd done, off the top of my head - old age doesn't come alone :D). I think the reason they discussed it on the show was because the local authority concerned had stopped any of their female employees from dealing with him due to his behaviour.

Jx

Janepig

Here's the fella (link). He's an Indy rather than a Tory though.

Jx

foreign_correspondent

Janepig wrote: »

Here's the fella (link). He's an Indy rather than a Tory though.

Jx

He was a Lib Dem previously, till they booted him out - http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/09/08/women-told-not-to-speak-to-wigan-councillor-robert-bleakley-after-he-ran-up-2400-on-sex-chatlines_n_5786178.html

OP, to give him thebenefot of the doubt, he will have found you on the electoral register and may have misinterpreted your interest in an issue as being interest in his campaign.

He is not doing anything wrong by contacting any of his constituents, in fact most people complain that they never see their local Councillor.!

The best way to stop him calling is to that is to tell him that you are a strong, lifelong supporter of another party to be honest, political parties don't tend to waste their time knocking on the doors of people who are never likely to vote for them.

Mimosa

j.e.j. and Valli - the sign is brilliant! Will be putting it up, no doubt about that.:T


Valli, yes he began the conversation after I said hello, how are you? Had to laugh yesterday after I told a colleague to beware of him - she had his shopping bagged up and asking for payment before he could open his mouth. She had also heard him talking to the customers waiting in the queue, so she knew what she would be in for.:D


Janepig and foreign correspondent - no, it's not him. We are further south. My goodness, they aren't lying when they say that politics is a dirty business! It's rife everywhere.


He has also had to resign from another position due to his lack of "engaging brain before opening mouth". After that episode, he lost the remaining respect he had in the town.