What is your local election coverage like?

[robscot]

Anyone been to or seen any local hustings? Q&As with candidates? Who is doing them?

Door knocks and leaflet drops?

Anything out of the ordinary?

I am talking your local candidates who are on the ballot paper - not UK wide stuff.

[fourstardan]

All i've had are leaflets with someone running around for the party. We've not had an MP knocking on a door, but tbh if he did id probably lose it based on what he felt he needed to tell me about the opposition rather than his own policies.

[bigpriest]

Had a car driving around making garbled announcements. It was like the 1970's.

[fourstardan]

All i've had are leaflets with someone running around for the party. We've not had an MP knocking on a door, but tbh if he did id probably lose it based on what he felt he needed to tell me about the opposition rather than his own policies.

[anonymous-user]

I live in the Tory stronghold of Uttlesford, Kemi Badenoch is my MP, she won't be getting my vote next week. We've had all the party leaflets through the letter box, all of which have gone straight in the recycling bin. None of them have had the balls to knock on our door yet looking for votes, probably a good idea as I have a bucket of water waiting for them in the upstairs bedroom should any of them come knocking. The only interaction with any of them was with a suspiciously smiley looking woman who approached my wife and I whilst we were having lunch in our local cafe. She started waffling on about our thoughts on the upcoming election and who we would be voting for, so we told her what we thought of all the parties and our self serving politicians. Turns out she was a Labour activist and asked if we would like to speak with the Labour councillor. At which point I told her you've got to be joking! Just out of interest I asked her what their plans would be for filling in the potholes in the roads which plague the constituency. Her response was to walk of in a huff!

Edited by anonymous-user on Monday 1st July 20:28

[Mr Whippy]

Leaflets here.

Interestingly my wife and I had leaflets posted to our name/addresses but they were each unique designs (3 fold vs a square unfold), but both same messaging from the Cons.

My local MP is Julian Smith who was/is Cons whip and AIUI he’s pretty good, party politics aside… but clearly they have a decent wodge of money to spend having posted materials and multiple designs.


Fed up by now. All they’re seeming to all say is how st the others will be, rather than how good they’ll be.

An inadvertent admission they all know they’ll be st, just which colour of st you want to go for?

[Monkeylegend]

Election

[robscot]

bigpriest said:

Had a car driving around making garbled announcements. It was like the 1970's.

Love that - need more of it!

[Yertis]

One leaflet from Labour.
One leaflet from the Conservatives.
One from Reform.
One from Mr Ed.
Eight – I’m not joking – from Carla the Denyer and her gang of Greens.

Edited to clarify that's six different leaflets, all different designs one aping the design of a Labour party one, and a couple of dupes.

Edited by Yertis on Monday 1st July 21:32

[anonymous-user]

bigpriest said:

Had a car driving around making garbled announcements. It was like the 1970's.

Vote Daley!



Vote Rigsby!

[Biker 1]

A couple of leaflets which I burned along with the rest of my cardboard packaging.
I'm out in the sticks so probably too scary for any candidates to attempt door knocking thank fk.
I noticed the party political broadcasts keep coming on TV - I switch channels for the 5 minutes of ridiculous claims. Do people actually watch this crap?

[JagLover]

Yertis said:

One leaflet from Labour.
One leaflet from the Conservatives.

This plus some YouTube ads for Labour.

No canvassing + no election posters seen. Feels more like local elections around here.

[sparkythecat]

The incumbent labour MP came to our door. I don’t know why she bothered as she’s a a definite shoo-in.
The other parties have sent leaflets

[Jamescrs]

Nothing other than posted leaflets from all the main parties, most of which went straight into the bin. haven't had anyone knocking on the door or seen anyone walking around canvassing.

There's the odd sign up in peoples gardens here and there but not many and the usual mini signs set up along grass verges on roadsides.

Seems very subdued this time round

[fourstardan]

Are the days of canvassing long gone now?

Lots of incidents in the public have probably given people the willies.

[markymarkthree]

Usual leaflets.
However i was impressed that the Labour bod and his cronies were pestering folk in the town on market day. Which is something i cant see Dr Fox doing.

[eliot]

has anyone ever had an actual politician knock on their door?

They all seem to repeat the same line “when im knocking on the doors of xxx people tell me yyy”

[rscott]

We've had leaflets from all the parties.
3 from the Conservatives - one addressed to each of us, plus one sent in an envelope from CCHQ.
All except the Reform leaflet had a lot of detail about who the candidate was and what they would do at a local level. Reform's leaflet was the same as the one they've sent in many other constituencies.

Had some local Facebook advertising from Bernard Jenkin, which seems to have stopped, probably because it was swamped with comments from locals asking why he hadn't delivered any of his previous commitments.

One house in our village has a Lib Dem sign up, but very little else. Several farmers always had UKIP boards up, but they haven't got Reform ones.

[A.J.M]

Leaflets from Labour, tories, snp and greens have all arrived.

Have YouTube adverts for Labour constantly.
Last night we had a Labour canvasser at the door.

Explained I had a postal vote and have voted Labour purely to get rid of the snp.
Young guy did say that the general opinion he’s getting is people are wanting rid of the snp here so Labour are getting the vote for that.

[ARHarh]

In all my years (60 of them to date) I have never had a candidate knock on my door.

We have had leaflets from all who are standing, but the lib dems seem to send a leaflet or letter every other day.

Strangest one was the special edition conservative one, printed in a fetching red