Doorstep challenge: Ten questions to test the canvassers

YOU’VE ranted in the pub, roared at the telly and made rude gestures at photos in the paper so why does it happen that when one of those “gangsters” you “only ever see at election time” finally “has the cheek to show their face” at your door, you can’t think of a thing to ask them?

“Right so,” you say awkwardly as you accept another glossy contribution to your recycling bin and pray silently that the hand that delivers it doesn’t want to shake yours. “I’ll keep you in mind.”

Door closed and canvasser at a safe distance up the path, you revert to angry citizen mode, shake the election literature from your tainted paw and bellow: “What I should have said was...”