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Denzil_DC

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8. That's my usual tactic whenever the Tories waste their paper on me.

Reply to LeftishBrit (Reply #7)

Thu May 2, 2019, 07:24 PM

May 2019

If I have the time and can be bothered, I'll add some corrective reflections to their drivel.

An escalation I've heard of is to wrap the leaflet round a brick and send that back to them in an unstamped envelope. But then you waste a good brick and an envelope.

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This was on my doorstep when I came home tonight.. [View all] Soph0571 May 2019 OP

How does voter registration work there? PoindexterOglethorpe May 2019 #1

I am on the voter register Soph0571 May 2019 #2

The parties that are standing get to send a leaflet to everyone muriel_volestrangler May 2019 #4

So GDPR does not apply? Soph0571 May 2019 #5

Not as far as I know. I don't think the parties are allowed to keep your details muriel_volestrangler May 2019 #6

That's the price of being a voter - election leaflets from tossers muriel_volestrangler May 2019 #3

Send it back to them without a stamp, so they'll have to pay the postage! LeftishBrit May 2019 #7

That's my usual tactic whenever the Tories waste their paper on me. Denzil_DC May 2019 #8

Most political parties have been preoocupied with local elections T_i_B May 2019 #9