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Gloriously, pointless but a wonderful mark of commitment and local grassroots democracy in action
After all, it's hardly as if Corbyn was going to lose his seat and they needed to go door knocking for late support and wheel the old folk out to vote.
Come off it, telling is an age old practice and so long as they stay within the rules, there's nothing undemocratic or intimidating about it. Common sense. Get real.
I wouldn't want to live in a country where election observers and grassroots methods of getting out the vote were illegal. It would be an abdication of proper scrutiny. Such countries are often not really democracies at all. I've done both telling and election-day doorknocking in the past and it seemed to be warmly received - many people had simply forgotten that the election was on that day, or thought that the polling station had already closed, or just ending up voting when they hadn't intended to bother. It's not like you can actually make them vote, let alone vote a particular way.
I guess Supreme Leader will need to be dragged out of No 10 eventual, dead lady walking!
Borris for PM anyone, bet his phone is red hot !
Next time Arkady you need a bigger gang outside the station to out play Labour.
I didn't say it was an extreme view, but that you were arguing from the extreme, i.e. giving an extreme example to evidence your argument.
Good luck in your campaign to change this established and useful custom. For consistency's sake you'll need to ban exit polls as well of course.
I am calling it the REVENGE of the SNOWFLAKES!