Election 2019: On the doorstep

On 2 May 2019, there were local elections in England, one council by-election in Dundee, and various elections in Northern Ireland. Then on 23 May there were elections to the European Parliament.

This is where the story really starts, T☆ry supporters going out on the stump, banging on doors, have been attacked by enraged voters as soon as they mentioned the government’s shambolic un-attempts to leave the European Onion. (See this story in the Daily Mail, for example.) To counter this tendency, local T☆ry agents have advised candidates and their canvassers not to mention what has become known as “Brexit.”

So what are candidates going to say when a voter answers the door to them?

Here is my two pennyworth. How to avoid conflict on the doorstep, for T☆ry candidates.

Avoid mentioning, in alphabetical order, Brexit, care for the elderly, energy prices, the Health Service, homelessness, illiteracy, inequality, pensions, the railways, tax avoidance, unemployment, wages or wars abroad.

Anything else is all right.

Edited 26 May 2019.

Note: It is neither desirable nor necessary to attack a T☆ry candidate, or anyone else. This blog is opposed to violence. Just vote for someone that you think will govern the country better than the T☆ries have been governing it for the last ten years. It isn’t difficult.