Two tenants on a bus.
“Hi there, how are you?”
“Fed up with the Council ringing me?
“What for?”
“The Housing vote. They’ve rang me up twice, telling me I ought to vote Yes, trying to get me to tell them which way I’m gonna vote. I’m fed up with them trying to bully me. I told them it’s none of their business how I’m gonna vote. It’s supposed to be a secret ballot. They don’t ring me up for a General Election or a Council election.”
“Yes they seem to be doing this all over the place, instead of providing “neutral information”.”
“Yes. I’ll bloody well be voting No.”
As reported to STCG
Swindon Tenants Campaign Group 
I couldn’t agree more. Within the space of a fortnight, I had four answerphone messages left regarding the Council being ‘unable to contact me to ‘speak to me about my choices ‘ – I was at work by the way.
I honestly can say, in all the years I have been a tenant, I have never received so much attention, usually at best I get apathy at the other end of the line when I do contact them about repairs/concerns etc.
Now they suddenly want to ‘listen to our opinions’ novelty indeed.
Anyway a GREAT BIG NO from me as well.
Not that I think the current bunch are fantastic Landords, but if nothing else, this whole selling charade shows that clearly some people are set to gain from the proposed transfer, and I think we deserve better than being used as pawns in their game.
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