Just been to pick up my son today from the local primary and really felt rather harassed by the labour supporters handing out leaflets to parents and stickers to the kids (kids of that age like stickers but its not them who vote is it) They were standing right in the gateway so there was no way to avoid them:( Not sure what I would have done if they had tried to put a sticker on my son but not particularly happy about the way that this was done. Dont get me wrong they were nice enough women but is this the way political lobbying should be done:( Strangely they havent got my vote;)

LisaH xxx

It must have felt worse than walking down Fargate.

Maybe they're getting a li'l desperate?

I'm afraid that if they'd have put a sticker on my child, they'd be sporting it on their foreheads before they could say David Blunkett!:rant: :mad:

Ask the head teacher to call the local Agent and ask them to remove their canvassers.

Whilst it's legal, it could be viewed as obstruction of the highway and at a stretch it might even be a road safety problem. ;)

Joe

Originally posted by lisaH
Strangely they havent got my vote;)



I'm only guessing here but I doubt that this incident is what's preventing you voting Labour.

Strangely, people who are going to vote Labour are usually pleased to see the canvassers.

Your children don't go to Rivelin school do they? If not it must be the hillsbro area they were targeting, because I had the same probs when I collected my daughter from school this afternoon.

hi they were at killamarsh infants one day and juniors the other day no stickers though still wrong to stand outside gates at school

Originally posted by royjames
The depths the labour people will go to never fails to amaze me,you should have told them where to stick the bloody leaflet.


I don't think any party should be canvassing outside a school. But at least its not as bad as what the BNP do, putting leaflets inside school books and then phoning up the media pretending to be outraged parents! Thanks for the info about the anti-BNP protest... I may attend if I'm not busy!:thumbsup:

I was at a school gate in Heeley yesterday handing out Labour election leaflets to parents, and, for the record, giving out stickers to kids (if their parents ok'd it).

Why shouldn't Labour supporters talk to parents and hand out leaflets on the street outside school gates? There is a lot to celebrate - new school buildings going up across our city at a rate of knots; extra investment per pupil; extra investment in teachers and support staff. Where better to remind voters of what the Labour government has achieved in education than outside the schools themselves.

I found it very refreshing that the majority of people I spoke to yesterday, and gave a leaflet to, welcomed our voter contact.

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Please keep threads on topic. Just because the nature of this thread is vaguely political doesn't give you the automatic right to use it to campaign for or against a party. There are more effective and appropriate ways of doing this. On this occasion I believe that one user was clearly responsible for changing the 'angle' of the thread and action has been taken to try and ensure it doesn't happen again.

Right, let's now get back to the original topic.

Originally posted by jayne67
Your children don't go to Rivelin school do they? If not it must be the hillsbro area they were targeting, because I had the same probs when I collected my daughter from school this afternoon.

Yep. Thought they were really blocking up the pavement:( I know they have a job to do but do they really need to stand in the school gates and all the exits!

LisaH xxx

surely adding more to the thread about why the political parties were doing it adds to the debate?
people can make up there own minds as to whether they agree or disagree. It's a forum isn't it? Therefore censoring threads which move off-topic (or debates which move on, as i like to see it) detracts from that forum idea.
I'm now more intrigued as to what the deleted posts said, rather than the other posts here.
When they are deleted, where do they get posted? Or are they just sent to the furnace down a memory hole?

I have just watched the TV news ,and it seems that the leaders of the three main parties only talk to school children, and in their own classrooms.

Has no-one told them schoolkids can't vote ?

Or ,maybe they won't get heckled in a junior school classroom !