While there's still a chance...

I'm thinking of going up to Hartleppol for a few days to help out with the by-election campaign. Given today's news, I wonder if this might be the last chance to go out onto the doorsteps and start knocking on doors:

The detail of the proposal will make it an offence for a person to be "outside a home for the purpose of representing to or persuading the resident, or anyone else, that he should not do something he is entitled to do, or that he should do something he is not obliged to do, and causing harassment, alarm or distress to the resident"...

...It would apply even if each individual is harassed on only one occasion, a Home Office spokesman said.

Though of course these laws are only designed to stop Bad People doing Bad Things and won't ever be used for anything else. Oh no. That never happens, does it?

Still, if I ever get pissed off with the Jehovah's Witnesses or Mormons coming round, I can always claim that they're causing me 'alarm or distress'.