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Feb. 13th, 2010 10:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lady_t_220I guess election time must be looming closer, my Labour MP keeps trying to get my opinion on crap. I got a letter this morning with a questionaire on the back about the economy.
Well, I call it a questionaire in its loosest form, it's more like "Tick Yes/No/Maybe - Do you hate this Tory policy that has been specifically picked to outrage you?" followed by "Tick Yes/No/Maybe - Do you like this pretty Labour policy specially picked to make you think we're lovely?"
Manipulative bullshit from start to finish, quite honestly.
I'm in a confrontational mood and feel like writing back telling him to stop making the election look like it's all about ONE policy and how crap the other side are.
I know the other side are crap. I also know your side are crap. I'm stuck between crap and more crap. How about a little less badmouthing of the opposition and a little more genuine outlining of the rest of your policies?
How about an easily accessible, centrally located, plain-speaking, honest manifesto that doesn't have to be carted around in a wheelbarrow?
How about some election promises you can actually keep?
Or how about, Mr Local-MP, how about you actually tell me about ONE THING you, yourself, our elected representative in government, have actually physically truly done for my benefit in the last eight years you have been in office? Because right now I'm hard pushed to name *anything* that you've done in government at all. Other than turn up, sit down, claim expenses and come home again.
Eh, fuck 'em all, I can tell you right now I'm voting obscure 3rd party. Hung Parliment, bitches.
Well, I call it a questionaire in its loosest form, it's more like "Tick Yes/No/Maybe - Do you hate this Tory policy that has been specifically picked to outrage you?" followed by "Tick Yes/No/Maybe - Do you like this pretty Labour policy specially picked to make you think we're lovely?"
Manipulative bullshit from start to finish, quite honestly.
I'm in a confrontational mood and feel like writing back telling him to stop making the election look like it's all about ONE policy and how crap the other side are.
I know the other side are crap. I also know your side are crap. I'm stuck between crap and more crap. How about a little less badmouthing of the opposition and a little more genuine outlining of the rest of your policies?
How about an easily accessible, centrally located, plain-speaking, honest manifesto that doesn't have to be carted around in a wheelbarrow?
How about some election promises you can actually keep?
Or how about, Mr Local-MP, how about you actually tell me about ONE THING you, yourself, our elected representative in government, have actually physically truly done for my benefit in the last eight years you have been in office? Because right now I'm hard pushed to name *anything* that you've done in government at all. Other than turn up, sit down, claim expenses and come home again.
Eh, fuck 'em all, I can tell you right now I'm voting obscure 3rd party. Hung Parliment, bitches.
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Date: 2010-02-13 01:38 pm (UTC)Then one day I harkened back to my undergraduate days as a Marketing student when we actually studied how to do a non-leading questionaire to try to get a read on what people really liked or disliked.
So in that mood I got out my red pen - played marketing professor critquing a proposed survey and made comments on each question - why it would be a leading question or a biased one then added proposed corrections to get a true read on the issues.
Funny thing after mailing the corrected versions back - I don't get those in mail any more from either side. As Hubby said - once you point out the man behind the curtian he doesn't want to know what you think because you can be manipulated.
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Date: 2010-02-13 01:59 pm (UTC)