text: Then Heather does need to stay home. I say this as someone with nut allergies. If she’s so allergic that oil on a surface threatens her life, she needs to carry an Epi-Pen or stay home. I wouldn’t expect a building full of people and their families to never consume nuts because that’s what you’re saying. Co-workers and the public at large having nuts before work, outside the building at work, or making their kids a PBJ sandwich before work, or even just touching a surface and transferring oil/touching her hand is dangerous for this co-worker that case. Heather didn’t mention this level of sensitivity to HR beforehand so I’m calling BS on the candy dish.
  No. What I’m saying is literally that it’s a reasonable request to not have peanut butter candies freely distributed around the office and OP is an agile for acting like an allergy that can kill someone is the same as just not liking the smell of something. I know exactly what I said.
  Also, people staying home because they can’t function in the world the way “we” want it is actually immensely ableist and not a thing we do. Because disability rights.
  
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  UPDATE: Someone in the Comments seems to have interpreted this as me taking a pot-shot at Grant. Not at all! I thought it was a brilliant summation of what it takes! Grant is a fantastic campaigner, as he proved at the last election.
  Except it really isnt true. The Lib Dems could keep all their supporters AND find others and they wouldn't win a Gen Election.
  In a constituency basis of winning an election is getting 1 more vote than your opponent - simple as that. You could both lose support and still win.
  Grant is a top notch campaigner, and his majority is likely to rocket up come the next election. People in Welwyn Hatfield have a lot of respect for him, regardless of their political persuassion. It seems a bit unfair to take potshots at him over a single comment on GMTV.
  His website uses the new standard Content Management System that lots of associations are using. It looks awful. How long is that page?
  The best feature on Grant's website is undoubtedly the forums on which he corresponds with constituents.
  He also has a lot of his own material on there, instead of the usual Party Press Releases and campaign buttons.
  I'll check out the forum... They're great if they're used (and properly), but the problem with many aspects of Internet concepts being used by politicians is that they just don't 'get' them or see them through properly.
  Take Facebook, for example. I suspect lots of politicians don't really know what they're doing- it's just something to 'keep up with', that they'll never really maintain properly and is open to abuse if they're not careful. They need to look at why they're using a particular idea (if they even need it) and then ensure it's done properly.
  So dismissing 70% of your membership and supporters by saying that "I have an uncompromising message to those who think they can perpetuate a pointless debate about grammar schools: We will never be taken seriously by parents and convince them we share their aspirations if we splash around in the shallow end of the education debate" is just plain stupid.
  Introducing: Cameron's Kamikaze Conservatives. An object lesson in how not to keep your own supporters, not find others and not win the next General Election.