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varian Sat 05-Oct-19 18:36:00

My Tory MP, a member of the ERG, has just sent me a "survey" asking what are the most important issues.

The choice is between- Leaving the EU on the 31st of October and various normal issues like health, education, law and order etc.

Nowhere am I given the opportunity to tell him that the most important issue for me is REMAINING in the EU.

I do realise that he is just trying to build a database he can exploit at the next election, but it is so disingenuous for him to assume that in this roughly 50:50 constituency in 2016, everyone has now signed up to the brexit nonsense.

I am torn between giving him a piece of my mind, ignoring his "survey" or stringing him along.

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MawB Sat 05-Oct-19 18:39:20

That sort of “either/ or” reminds me of the old question
(Answer yes or no)
Have you stopped beating your wife?

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grannyticktock Sat 05-Oct-19 21:17:30

I had a YouGov survey once asking me which issues caused me the most concern, including things like "immigration". If I say it causes me concern, this doesn't explain whether I think there is too much, or too little, or people from the wrong countries, or that we don't deal with immigrants properly when they get here, etc.

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absthame Sat 05-Oct-19 21:31:44

I don't know about string him along, maybe you should have used the word “up” instead of "along" gringringrin

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