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		 Election poster boards in front gardens
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| derbybill 
 
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| 22-04-2010 07:46 PM 
 
There's a lot of these about, but watch your head if you are walking down Stondon Park as one of the Green posters cleared my head by just a few mm.I know these are temporary boards, but they still present a hazard when they stick out over the public footway, which I am sure they should not.
 Green Party posters look like they are made of something substantial, unlike estate agents boards made of corrugated plastic.
 Has anyone spotted a blue one yet?
 
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| Snazy 
 
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| 22-04-2010 07:52 PM 
 
Seen massive ones for labour, not much for anyone else.Not seen a blue one, but at the same time a vote is a private thing, so im not impressed by the signs. Used to them of course, but one has already been torn down by the Dulwich Plough.
 
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| robin orton 
 
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| 22-04-2010 09:06 PM 
 
Snazy said:
 a vote is a private thing, so im not impressed by the signs. 
Doesn't it add to the vitality of our democracy if people  are prepared to make a public statement about their politics? (Like my wife, who's put  up a poster, but in the window of her upstairs study, so that I can dissociate myself from it if I feel like it)
 
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| Sherwood 
 
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| 23-04-2010 06:03 AM 
 
One window displaying a Conservative poster had a brick thrown through it. That may explain why you don't see many posters for the party in the lead according to the surveys.
 
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| BT 
 
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| robin orton 
 
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| 23-04-2010 07:13 AM 
 
Sherwood wrote:
 
 One window displaying a Conservative poster had a brick thrown through it. 
 Where and when was that then?
 
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| Snazy 
 
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| 23-04-2010 11:54 AM 
 
Robin, I am not against them, and well done to anyone wishing to promote their vote. Posters are one thing but "for sale" style board look hidious, especially down roads with a high number of properties for sale too.
 The whole window smashing thing is certainly something to take into consideration. Either way, putting a posted up does not sway votes, so as noble as it is, its pointless.
 
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| andrewr 
 
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| 23-04-2010 05:13 PM 
 
If putting posters up doesn't sway votes, then why do political parties pay out so much for big poster sites?  I am sure there are many swing voters who are keen to vote either for, or against the party they think is winning.  If their local area is a sea of one colour then it will surely affect them.
 
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| Snazy 
 
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| 23-04-2010 07:00 PM 
 
There is a slight difference between vast apparent "factual" advertising posters on paid for billboards, and window posters with a colour and name on them.
 I have to say if swing voters vote based on the colour that surrounds them, maybe they should not bother voting at all.
 A vote should be an educated decision, not because a party is your favorite colour, or you saw lots of posters for them lol.
 
 Buy a burger because you saw an advert by all means, but vote with your mind please people.
 
 Maybe this is how the country gets in such a mess all the time
   
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| roz 
 
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| 26-04-2010 11:48 AM 
 
I'm a little confused by the orange Lib Dem boards as I thought they'd changed their corporate logo to yellow a while back?
 
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| Snazy 
 
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| 29-04-2010 12:16 PM 
 
The other half said that too. I think its more to do with standing out. Yellow would fade pretty quickly, and not be as bold.
 
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