Good turn out among the student population down here...
https://twitter.com/CamGoodhead/status/1205107698200711168
& I love this from Yorkshire...
Mrs Daz has volunteered her services today to drive labour voters to the polling station. Think lots of others are doing the same.
I’d rather see them picking up Tory voters and taking them to a pretend polling station.
Popped across to our Polling Station, voted Labour which is unfortunately weeing in the wind in the Tory loving Derbyshire Dale's. Just me and the two polling station volunteers, it is pretty rural and a polling station that most people would need to drive to. Whilst my vote will mean nothing I can't not vote as a nurse that works in some of Sheffield's most deprived areas. Given the latter I'm not overly hopeful of even a hung parliament, I never fail to be amazed by the number of turkey's keen to vote for Christmas.
Strong youth turnout in unis & remainery places will be offset easily by the pro Brexit/anti Corbyn vote across Midlands & leave areas , those places have been becoming less labour for years.
Everyone I’ve spoken to dislikes Whittaker.
Not as much as his son does.
Whittaker is one of the most odious people ever to be an MP anywhere, for any party (read up on him). I’d vote for anyone else to get rid of him… and I’m utterly baffled with anyone (including Conservative supporters) voting to keep him in his job… but about half the constituency will… which is bloody depressing.
I queued and heard a few murmurings of fear and dread from other (mature) voters. Have even e-mailed my kids and told them to think carefully about who they vote for and why.
No dogs to be seen but saw on Twitter #reindeeratpollingstations, a terrific pic of two reindeer and what looked to be a dog sitting in the sleigh. It's good to smile.
Even though it goes against my principals and I hate myself for it, I'm going to vote tactically and for Labour.
My constituency has previously been Labour but has been Tory for the last 2 elections. Lib dems unfortunately don't stand a chance. Hopefully this will be the first time my vote actually makes a difference. At 43 years old that's pretty sad...
Boris hasn't voted for himself.
It was more 'convenient' for him to vote in Westminster.
What message is this sending to his potential constituents?
Odds on No Majority still shortening and Tory Majority still drifting although when I checked this morning it looks like there had been an adjustment the other way during the night.
If I had to take a guess at where the real probabilities would be, I would say 60% - 65% chance of a Tory Majority, 33% - 38% chance of No Majority, and 2% to 5% chance of a Labour Majority.
The thing to remember is that Wisdom of Crowds type analysis could be significantly skewed by the biased coverage. As Craig Murray pointed out, it has been focusing on working class Labour voters backing the Tories and completely ignoring Tory voters who are abandoning ship to vote for Lib Dems or, dare I say it, Labour.
Finally faced the apocalyptic weather a little while ago, the few minutes walk to the polling station and back was a real struggle! 😈
Unfortunately, it didn't wake me up much, I still feel like death warmed up more than usual. 🙁
I'm going to call it now. Nicola Sturgeon will be the next PM.
So just vote for whichever candidate you agree most with
Normally Edukator I would agree with you, but this is no normal election. The most important task today is to avoid a tory becoming your MP even if that means voting for a party you normally wouldn't.
mother a life long tory voter registered her protest vote by voting Green (a rural norfolk constiuency where they've lost nearly all their public transport and theres virtually no doctors services and they'll still return a pig wearing a blue rosette with a 20000 majority) Which is a little odd as she quite likes Blowjo
Well done Mum. Hard thing to do.
The most important task today is to avoid a tory becoming your MP even if that means voting for a party you normally wouldn’t.
That's the way I'm seeing it as well.
Craig Whittaker the mormon, child beater Tory MP for CalderValley did you say ?
Craig Whittaker the mormon, child beater Tory MP for CalderValley did you say ?
And lives in Kirklees.
The very one. Why anyone votes for him is beyond me.
"they’ll still return a pig wearing a blue rosette with a 20000 majority"
Matthew Hancock is 'my MP' and he'll get around a 20k majority again. Interestingly though, a lot of older (true blue) people I have been talking to in the last few weeks (70s upwards) have said they will not be able to bring themselves to vote Conservative this time round.
Farmers (another reliable source of Con votes) aren't that happy with BJ either. When he promised we would leave by Oct 31st come what may, many felt they had to sell their crops before this cast iron exit date. Supply and demand meant that prices were depressed and as a result a lot of them have lost a lot of money and are therefore not that well disposed towards Johnson & Co. Oh yes, that and not having anyone to get the crops in over the colder months.
You never know.....
I would rather have Abbot that Patel by about 100 billion times
Just when you think she's reached peak stupidity she turns up to vote today like this 😂 😂 😂 Unless it's fake!
Farmers (another reliable source of Con votes) aren’t that happy with BJ either. When he promised we would leave by Oct 31st come what may, many felt they had to sell their crops before this cast iron exit date. Supply and demand meant that prices were depressed and as a result a lot of them have lost a lot of money and are therefore not that well disposed towards Johnson & Co. Oh yes, that and not having anyone to get the crops in over the colder months.
It is far worse than that, the current weather is hammering the industry, i am hearing of fields being ploughed under in the spring and resown with all the costs associated with a failed crop.
Yup, it is pretty tough for farmers at the moment. The fields around here are waterlogged and it can't be good for the 2020 harvest. A perfect storm for the agricultural community maybe.
wow - guido are getting really desperate!
Just when you think she’s reached peak stupidity she turns up to vote today like this
Oh, the humanity!
Yup, it is pretty tough for farmers at the moment
Interestingly near us, every sign in a field has been Lib Dem. Massive ones too.
Normally there would be the odd one or 2 and it would be Con.
Even if it was genuine, she hasn’t come out and said people being hungry is nothing to do with central government cuts, and all to do with failures in local government (who have born the brunt of central government cuts). Our current Home Secretary is a nasty duplicitous piece of work.
Even though it goes against my principals and I hate myself for it, I’m going to vote tactically and for Labour.
My constituency has previously been Labour but has been Tory for the last 2 elections. Lib dems unfortunately don’t stand a chance. Hopefully this will be the first time my vote actually makes a difference. At 43 years old that’s pretty sad…
Dont worry, I held my nose and voted Lib Dem
Just when you think she’s reached peak stupidity she turns up to vote today like this
And today’s award for not-the-sharpest-tool-in-the-box goes to...no, not Diane...
Maybe she's hurt her foot and is wearing two different sizes due to swelling.
But yeah you know whatever.
mother a life long Labour voter registered her protest vote by voting Green. Just saying.
Spotted just now on Facebook:
"Thinking of not bothering to vote because of the rain? Remember there are people having to sleep in it."
Sadly out of my family I think I'm the only one placed to actually make a difference. My Dad lives in a Conservative constituency that makes the rotten borough in Blackadder look average. Basically a dead pig in a blue rosette would be elected there by a majority of 25,000. It's really depressing to think that your vote is completely meaningless. 🙁
My Mum lives in a staunchly Labour constituency which is great.
My sister is another large Conservative majority place.
I'm the only one in a marginal seat.
Nice wee stroll to polling place in Kirkliston today (Edinburgh West, two way tie between SNP and Lib Dem last time with Lib Dem taking it). Gambled that there wouldn't be much too much of a swing towards the Tories due to more and more young families moving in, so voted with my heart for SNP (and a little bit with my head, thinking we'd be better off independent and in EU rather than in UK and out of EU!).
My wife cocked up and missed her missed deadline for postal vote. A little bit of me is celebrating this as she has been a lifelong Tory voter having been indoctrinated by her father (lovely man, but also a Daily Mail reader, if that's not too much of a contradiction in terms). Even worse, her sister votes blue also, as a hard up mother of three nurse! Would love to sit down and ask her just WTF she is thinking... Probably "imigants!".
On the flip side, my wife had been muttering about not being able to vote for BoJo, but also not being able to bring herself to vote SNP or Labour, so would probably have voted Lib Dem. She might just have been saying this so I'd stop asking her if she was still voting Tory...
She can take her postal vote to the polling station, but in the circumstances maybe tell her that tomorrow.
@13thfloormonk I might be talking bollocks but I think you can take your postal vote in to the station of you missed the deadline? Maybe don't tell her unless she's had a change of heart though...
Yes, you can, the returning officer just needs to have received it by the same time the polls shut (in effect get it there by 10pm)
But, maybe in this case.....no, that would be undemocratic.
On that point I like the facebook posts saying that if you want to really vote for Boris and Brexit, make sure to put an X in both boxes to reinforce the point. (if you're dumb enough to do that you probably shouldn't be trusted with the pencil they give you let alone a vote)
Do I go on my ge avoiding, very damp night ride, os say fk it & crack open the beers once the kids ha e gone down?
Certain it'll be a Tory win, so we're all **** anyway, right?
On that point I like the facebook posts saying that if you want to really vote for Boris and Brexit, make sure to put an X in both boxes to reinforce the point. (if you’re dumb enough to do that you probably shouldn’t be trusted with the pencil they give you let alone a vote)
I saw a similar post saying that due to anticpated very high demand at polling stations, if Labour and Lib Dem voters could please come along on Thursday and Conservative / Brexit could all do Friday, that would ease the queues nicely.
Anyone else feel an uneasy, sicky feeling in the pit of their stomach? I’m not normally massively bothered, but this election... it’s really got to me. 🤢
My other half thinks I’m bonkers to be bothered 😏
I’m going to call it now. Nicola Sturgeon will be the next PM.
That would be a constitutional stretch but still probably more chance than Jo Swinson!
People of East Dunbartonshire please vote Jo out of parliament altogether
Bit more movement towards a HP in the betting markets over the last hour...
Anyone else feel an uneasy, sicky feeling in the pit of their stomach?
Yes. I don't think I've ever thought that one of the options would be so damaging before.
Anyone else feel an uneasy, sicky feeling in the pit of their stomach?
Yes, very but then I've had that feeling since the morning after the 2016 referendum.