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Promoting a political party

for some reason this upsets me...

 

For example...if you vote for A, B or C party I really don't mind and can see reasons for choosing one or the other.

 

My assumption with someone voting A, B or C is that, after weighing things up, after being generally disappointed by everyone and everything....they have made a decision to go with B....fine

 

But people who change their facebook to "Vote B"   or put a poster in their front window "Im voting A"....this really disturbs me.

 

Sure come to a conclusion about who to vote for but how can you really be proud of any of them??!!

 

A family member has recently done this and for some reason it has really wound me up

"Sure come to a conclusion about who to vote for but how can you really be proud of any of them??!! "

 

Note everybody thinks like you.....

There is a road I pass every day on the way to work. It has those yellow libe dem estate agent type boards. I think the lib dems are pretty hopeless on every level but this kind of thing is part of a vibrant democracy

in the road where I live, some people have eu flags hanging on the front of their houses.

 

I don’t see what’s wrong with saying “I will vote for X party, I encourage you to do likewise”. Although I don’t personally do it.

Nothing innately wrong with it, and I know a lot of people do it  - to me it just says something of someone. And I find it hard to imagine myself ever being one of those people, and so when people close to me do it it makes me feel.....urrghhhh...uncomfortable. 

 

The reason your conscious brain thinks the Lib Dem’s - obviously the party of choice for the sensible progress-minded middle class person - are “hopeless on every level”, Dice Man, is that your subconscious is silently screaming that they might well destroy the tories in big parts of their heartland at this election, and your tribal affiliation to the tozzas is trrrrrrrrrrigerred as a result.

p.s. are you and I the longest standing ROF regulars? Pretty sure we were both here in 2002. Can’t think of any other regular survivors from that era.

Archibald, I think their is a strand of Englishness that doesn't like to proclaim political allegiance stridently as they fear offending people or being gossiped about by their neighbours.

apnhb - I come and go. I'm not sure the lib dems have ever destroyed anything. wasn't their peak in 2005 post Iraq? abut 50 MPs !!

 

 

I thought that the point of the posters in the window was to stop the door knockers. 

not that I can ever recall a candidate knocking on my door at any address ever

there is something slightly smug and annoying about it though 

the most amusing poster I saw during the London local elections was a labour one.  It just said "VOTE LABOUR"  but the guy had written in pen "Corbyn not so much"

I prefer the posters that just state the name of the party rather than order you to "VOTE LABOUR" or lie that lib dems  are "Winning Here" when the closest they came was coming 4th  in 1782

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