It doesn’t matter. Moaning about people voting a different way to you isn’t going to help you.Over the years, I've talked to hundreds of non-voters. I know what they say.
You either rejoice that people who'd never voted before thought it was important enough to turn out, or you realise that they were (mostly) people who, never having bothered to vote before, were uninformed about political issues and least likely to understand this most important of political issues.It doesn’t matter. Moaning about people voting a different way to you isn’t going to help you.
Lessons are never learned, insulting people because they chose differently to you is going to make them do it again and again.
People who abstain from usual elections but voted leave in the referendum, had just as much right to be in that booth and put their x next to which ever choice they decided, as you did.
How do you know they were uninformed? Did you screen everyone before they went into the booth?You either rejoice that people who'd never voted before thought it was important enough to turn out, or you realise that they were (mostly) people who, never having bothered to vote before, were uninformed about political issues and least likely to understand this most important of political issues.
And it's not an insult to non-voters to respect their non-voting by never wanting to try and persuade them to change the habit of a lifetime. They do do it again and again - not vote. I'm not going to waste time trying to persuade them, maybe check once a decade.
It's not my business, you say. What do you think canvassing is for? You can tell me you won't say who you're voting for (and I probably won't call you again for five years) but we do know who doesn't vote (including the ones who say they will vote for us).
Good. I'd not want to waste time trying to persuade you of anything.How do you know they were uninformed? Did you screen everyone before they went into the booth?
I don’t rejoice, I let people get on with it. If they don’t want to vote it’s none of my business and who they vote for is none of my business.
Canvassing should be used to try and persuade, if any fucker knocks on my door and asks who I am voting for, whether he/she are red,blue, yellow, green, I’d tell them it’s none of their bloody business.
You’ve no chance of persuading me of anything, I’ve read your posts for several years.Good. I'd not want to waste time trying to persuade you of anything.
(And don't say that's an insult. It's a wise use of my time when I could be talking to someone else.)
Good. I'd not want to waste time trying to persuade you of anything.
(And don't say that's an insult. It's a wise use of my time when I could be talking to someone else.)
There’s more chance of me incinerating my season card at City and buying one for both Old Trafford and Anfield for the 2021/2022 season.You are best off waiting until he converts to Islam in time for the next election , then he is bound to vote Labour. Might even join you on your canvassing rounds.
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