Reform UK leaflet pushed through the letterbox.

[bez_lightyear@crispsandwi.ch]

Reform UK leaflet pushed through the letterbox. "Sorry we missed you. We really wanted to talk to you about how things are"

No you fucking didn't. I watched you walk up the drive, heard the letterbox go and then watched you walk down the drive.

If you can't be honest in your canvassing, why should anyone trust you?

[fizzfizzpopop@veganism.social]

@Bez_Lightyear I remember a national front leaflet being pushed through the door at around 5 minutes to midnight. I was still awake and decided to return it to the poster, but when they saw me coming out of my driveway while holding the leaflet and looking up and down the road, they started to walk away briskly. I started to first walk, then run to catch up and they literally ran away and out of my road like this mad old overweight person (me) might eat them.

[timwardcam@c.im]

@Bez_Lightyear It usually works though - anyone who's done any door knocking will know that most people *are* out most of the time.

[timwardcam@c.im]

@Fizzfizzpopop @Bez_Lightyear Yeah, you do tend to get out of the way of people who come out of their houses and follow you. You never know what they have in mind, best to be safe.

Part of the personal safety training is not to be trapped in a dead end by anyone coming out of their door after you, eg when you're in a corridor in a block of flats you start delivering from the far end and work you way back towards the stairs, so you've always got an escape route.

Another part of the training is "all death threats go to the police, it's their job, not yours, to decide how serious they are". I personally have never bothered, though I did once check with the council about a tenant. (This is *not* a recommendation - follow your training.)

[emsquared@social.coop]

@Bez_Lightyear Years ago I put a spare swingbin outside our door that had a sign saying "please put all political leaflets in here". I reckon around 96% complied. Ideal. Straight to bin solution.

[timwardcam@c.im]

@catch56 @Fizzfizzpopop @Bez_Lightyear Just giving some technical info which might be interesting to people who aren't in the business.

I'd be surprised, actually, if Reform had actually done any training of their volunteers.

[vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de]

@TimWardCam @catch56 @Fizzfizzpopop @Bez_Lightyear

I had a senior (easily old enough to be my Dad, and I'm in early 50s) put an anti fox-hunting leaflet through my door (a bit of a surprise, in an outer suburb a good few km from the rural areas!).

I wanted to go and congratulate him but he was already 100m down the street so I didn't want to scare him, he was definitely not hanging around and possibly expecting a hostile reception due to the nature of his campaigning.

[timwardcam@c.im]

@vfrmedia @catch56 @Fizzfizzpopop @Bez_Lightyear Yeah, that's a problem - you find yourself running away from people who are wanting to be nice to you.

Like, one of my mates at work once - I didn't know he lived there, and kept walking fast when I heard someone calling after me.