[Closed] Polling day, then

0.070

it's been Tory from Lib Dem by a good slice for the past 5 elections. And the Lib Dem candidate has been suspended pending investigations into false registration, but too late to change the ballot papers.

For national, voted UKIP. (Awaits brickbats).

Didn't someone develop a code for STW so you couldn't see certain posters? Can we bring that back? I don't want to see such selfish, ignorant low lifes if I don't have to.

I got 0.136 and it says it's a safe seat. They seem to be using last year's result which is pretty meaningless looking at the polls.

[quote=munrobiker ]Didn't someone develop a code for STW so you couldn't see certain posters?

If you're using Chrome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/singletrack-world-forum-e/cpgdlmbifgbhcoigdoeoooakijdionop

other functionality as well (I'm sure there are a couple of things I'm still supposed to be working on, suggestions are welcomed but may not be implemented!)

munrobiker - Member

For national, voted UKIP. (Awaits brickbats).

Didn't someone develop a code for STW so you couldn't see certain posters? Can we bring that back? I don't want to see such selfish, ignorant low lifes if I don't have to.

[quote=digga ]For local, voted Cons, although I don't care for Tories or the coalition, the local guy does a reasonable job IMHO.

Is the best reason to pick who to vote for in local elections IMHO - not a big fan of party politics in those. I'd have voted for the same people whichever party they stood for (though I might have felt a bit sick if they stood for your national voting preference).

Choosing which people's opinions you want to read is perfectly democratic 😉 (though personally I never have and never will use the blocking functionality)

Quite a queue in Liverpool Riverside. Most, I'm sure, will go for the default Labour option, despite us having an MP whose been in ages and doesn't do anything. 😡

Interesting to note that neither of the officials I came across had gravy stains down their jumpers. Welcome to the 21st century, I guess.

I just went to my sleepy little polling station, was just myself and a pushy woman with a blue rosette.

If she was genuinely pushy then report to presiding officer as strict rules on how candidates and their polling agents can behave.

[quote=WackoAK ]0.058 for me which is completely wrong, it's held by Labour but will fall to SNP.

I suspected they were basing it on the previous election rather than considering likely swings, thanks for confirming that (in my case 0.312 is wildly optimistic, I doubt it will be anywhere near as close as the last election, hence I voted tactically for somebody who has no chance of getting elected - which at least tells you who I didn't vote for in case anybody is interested).

Done

National Bocialist

That was right wasn't it?

aracer- thanks!

I quite like this:

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[quote=munrobiker ]aracer- thanks!

Not originally mine, but the latest updates are. Have just discovered something I'd been using in my dev version which isn't in the release version I'm currently using, so I guess another update is needed...

Two late twenty-something single mothers* outside my polling station arguing:

" I ain't voting for that *, what a posh tosser in his smart suits and all that, even though I think milliband is an ugly *"

Nice to know the local populous is voting based on an intellectual judgement of our potential political outcome...

Ha!

That's pretty much been the tabloid approach too.

That's pretty much been the tabloid approach too.

This sort of thing?

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/miliband-nasty-bad-man-2015050698064

😀

0.272

That was worth it then!!!

Done. Although the boy was most peturbed to see us heading into his playgroup only to find the toys all packed away and two mild-mannered gentleman sat behind a desk instead.

Also there was someone stood outside, presumably showing support for her party, except she was wearing an SNP *and* a Labour rosette.

Just walked up the hill a few hundred metres and voted in the very small annex of the church at the Wyche-must be one of the closest polling stations to a constituency boundry round here as Worcestershire West is about 150m north. Has a nice view though.
Like Stoner has said about Worcestershire West, Herefordshire North is also a rather bucolic blue area, although rather bluer if that website is correct, so it makes sense that my vote was worth 0.165 and his 0.312. And no, I didn't vote for the winner.

Quaint village hall here. Stopped off on bike on way back from school run.

Looked to be a decent turnout - 10 minute wait to vote not helped by the numpty ahead of me accidentally spoiling his ballot and having to get a new one (to their credit they sent him to the back of the queue).

Local council election was a bit baffling as it was up to 12 choices out of field of 14! A few of them I knew others were a complete mystery.

Nic the local potter was in the queue next to me wearing a bright red "Hell Yes, I'm Voting Labour" T shirt. I'm guessing the lady in the blue rosette doing the exit poll didn't bother to trouble him.

Anyone else's polling station use booths where the grain on the counter top makes your 'X' look like you have Alzheimers?

Houns - Member
Anyone else's polling station use booths where the grain on the counter top makes your 'X' look like you have Alzheimers?

Although I did wonder what they'd done with 'those' polling booths.

In Menston one year we had booths with counters half the size of the ballot* and on a right slope. It was a right bugger to get your cross in the right box.

*this might have been for europeans, I can't remember

I bet nowhere does curtains anymore, now if someone had utt that in their manifesto I'd have been on it like a flash. Can't beet a booth with curtains, something erotic about it.

0.039 in NW Hants.

Winnah!!!!

Oh, hang on..

I did notice this morning that the side returns on the two booths (and I'm sure there were three last time) were a bit skimpier than last.

You'd think there'd be some sort of standard for these things - it's not like they're particularly complex or expensive structures.

thestabiliser - Member
I bet nowhere does curtains anymore, now if someone had utt that in their manifesto I'd have been on it like a flash. Can't beet a booth with curtains, something erotic about it.

0.07 - pah!

Anyway, it was quiet. Just 3 of us at the time.

We were 'shielded' from view by the ballot box on one side and erm.....a cooker splashback on the other. To be fair, there wasn't any room in the caravan for anyone to get past let alone sneak a peek from the right hand side.

In one respect we were hi tech....we didn't have plywood to lean on but glass (over the gas hob).

Good stuff voting in caravans.

Being a UKIPPer i imagine you'd have been effervescent if there were any poles in yours! 😀

0.189 for me. Though I think that's bobbins frankly, they have us as a safe seat but everyone else seems to think we're going SNP. Just on the way up, hope i don't get attacked by one of the marauding gangs the zoomers in the other thread think will be hanging out around every polling station in Scotland...

thestabiliser - Member
Being a UKIPPer i imagine you'd have been effervescent if there were any poles in yours!

Also (and not aimed at you) I'm betting that few people have read the whole manifesto of any party, either, whether they voted for them or not.

Absolutely to both -

but equally if I'd let that gag slide I'd never have forgiven myself

100.0

Welcome to my rotten borough.

100.0

Welcome to my rotten borough.

Are you Colin the dachshund?

@digga TBH a Manifesto is not worth the paper it is written on. It will be a list of aspirations designed to capture floating voters. They are political fairy stories and best treated as such.

Unless of course, you know better, in which case I stand corrected.

In Sunny Brentwood ... even though Eric "fat face" Pickles is the imcubent MP .... my voting power is 0.047. 😯

Maybe the peoples of sunny brentwood really are as vacuous as The Only Way Is Essex will have you believe.

slowjo - Member
@digga TBH a Manifesto is not worth the paper it is written on.

TBH, based on previous track records; Cameron's pledges on "bonfire of quangos" and Cleggs on tuition fees, you have a fair point.

However, what really does annoy me is that people will question a party over policies it does not have and without having bothered to actually take the time to read what that party's declared manifesto actually is.

I realise few people actually read anything these days, but 70 odd pages is not much.

Have an unusual candidate in our ward;
http://vapersinpower.co.uk/liam

I don't know where to begin really. I'd bet that [s]Liam[/s] Blaze is actually a nice chap. He's certainly going to be interesting, given his employment history and being a former member of the anarchist movement. As well as vaping, I'd be willing to bet he also owns a "herbal atomiser".

Only two running unfortunately, people like this would add some colour to the ubiquitous grey people in UK politics.

0.903 for me!

Question ...

How many polling stations in the land ?

Any ideas, google draws a blank

wrecker - Member
Have an unusual candidate in our ward;

Only two running unfortunately, people like this would add some colour to the ubiquitous grey people in UK politics

He has, as he has discovered more about the process involved in drafting the TPD in the corridors of Europe, gradually altered his view of the EU from a benign (if staid) bureaucracy to an organisation beset with corruption and vested interests.

It is one thing that fascinates me about the prevailing UK attitude to the EU; given that most people mistrust politicians and bureaucrats, why are they so attached to maintaining another level of it?

We don't like EU bureaucracy, but we do like the opportunities the EU gives us.

At least, I do. The EU needs reform, not leaving.

Anyone worked in a polling station? I did it back in 2005 in a council estate in Northwich. It was an interesting day. Crazy rush in the morning and teatime, then nothing to do all day but talk to some old folks who'd come in mainly for a chat with someone. There was an amusing interlude when some skin-headed knuckle-dragger came in, took his ballot paper into the booth, then came back and demanded to know where the BNP option was. After giving him my best gallic shrug he then had a go at me and threw his ballot paper at me. Was bloody knackered by the end, 6am - 11pm is a bloody long day so be nice when you go.

Our polling station used to be my primary school- the polling centre dudes ended up sat at child sized school desks on foot high plastic chairs, they probably had to be carried out. It's less funny now.

I agree about curtains though, there's no romance in voting in an MFI wardrobe.

I can't remember the last time I queued to vote! Three desks for the name checkers, all 3-4 people deep.

Hopefully people are keen to exercise their right to vote.

Sure you weren't in Argos?

Right, I'm off to get in before the teatime rush. Then I'm going to Morrisons to buy beer and snacks for the results marathon.

All kicking off in Darlington after the UKIP candidate was missing from some ballot papers. Luckily they spotted after 89 people had voted and it was just one polling district so they managed to replace the papers.

It's a relatively safe seat, so the Labour incumbent should get back in with a clear majority, but if there's only 178 vote in it we could be facing a rerun...

Anyone going to stay up? Every time I try, I wait long enough for a load of safe seats to remain safe, then fall asleep and generally become tired and confused the rest of the day.

However the tension might prevent me from simply leaving it and going to bed properly.

I got to vote for myself, which was a slightly surreal experience.

Anyone going to stay up?

I'm at the count, so expecting to get home at about 4am. Unfortunately, I have a full timetable tomorrow, so I'm teaching [i]every[/i] lesson off zero sleep.

Anyone going to stay up?

I'll watch the first 30 mins or so of the C4 coverage then grab some sleep and hopefully get back up around 0430 to watch the rest of it before heading off to work.

Stabiliser - hang on, little desk, small pencil.....maybe it was Argos!

Getting up at 3am to see how the results are going. Seemed a good idea when I planned it.

Has anyone spoilt their ballot paper, if so, what did you do?

thestabiliser - Member
Sure you weren't in Argos?

miketually - Member
All kicking off in Darlington after the UKIP candidate was missing from some ballot papers.

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[i]Right, I'm off to get in before the teatime rush. Then I'm going to Morrisons to buy beer and snacks for the results marathon.[/i]

wonder if you'll be crying into your beer later Dazb?

wanmankylung - Member

Has anyone spoilt their ballot paper, if so, what did you do?

Someone on here proposed drawing a massive cock. But it turns out, in my seat there's not enough space. Either that, or he had an optimistic idea of what constitutes massive.

0.838 - dang, that's nearly a whole vote! Good luck everyone, stay safe out there. 🙂

0.845 voted

Yes, I was there at 7.25 am with my Tory, anti-STW hand-wringing, liberal, left wing vote! 🙂

Done mine. Through the door, line on the left, one cross each.

The polling station in Todmorden town hall was like walking into a 1950s timewarp. It did make me wonder why places like the US need to use fangled voting machines when all you need is a pencil, a bit of paper and a man with a beard to cross your name off a list and make sure you put your ballot paper it in the right box. I hope it's the same in 50 years time.

Job jobbed.

I'm absolutely flabbergasted that my housemate, having been winding folk at work up (we share an employer too), by asking them if they will be voting, and then on them answering yes he responds with 'UKIP?' Can't be arsed drag his fat arse 200 yards to the polling station to vote. Evidently his bed is too comfy. At 7pm. Unbelievable.

Marginal seat too, 0.774 worth of a vote.

Went in the morning, first they couldn't find me, then I was down twice.

I'm not convinced the new registration system is better...

Voted in the local Tescos at 7.30.

Left with a pack of jam doughnuts, two Dairy Milk bars, some new biro's and the new Seasick Steve album.

The guys manning it had been very bored and drunk A LOT of Costa coffee.

Made it! Had to stay late at work, then bomb home. Some chunk of the A30 near Reading was closed with NO diversion signs resulting in going around the houses to another route which was affected by the same closure.. Then they were resurfacing the M4 which caused a nasty jam.. And I needed diesel. I had to eat a fair few of those words posted on speeding threads. A middle class STW dilemma: neglect democratic responsibility, or speed?

[quote=molgrips ]I had to eat a fair few of those words posted on speeding threads. A middle class STW dilemma: neglect democratic responsibility, or speed?

Did you have to overtake?

Exit poll interesting 🙂

Did you have to overtake?

Actually no, but the roads down there are windy and tight so there's little overtaking.

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So.. Tories + LD could still have a majority... According to exit polls

Can we keep chat of the results (and project results) on t'other thread?

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/the-all-night-election-results-thread/page/2#post-6894886