[Closed] Polling day, then

Pork pies for politics innit

Freshly shot partridge, what, with green beans and red cabbage in an English ale for English voters gravy 😀

Postal vote late last week but I'll wander up this evening to the village hall when my wife casts her vote. Interested to note that one of the candidates for my constituency lives around 350 miles away.

British Red Cross building for me then spent some time hanging out at the (only) polling station in my constituency.

Will go back at lunchtime and this evening - just make a presence, as permitted by the laws and that.

Rachel

I did have the option of cannabis is safer than alcohol.... but the guy couldn't get out and canvass due to excessive snacking... There was a ukip and green candidate but much as I tried I couldn't find out about them... It left the "big" three... So I made my bed as it were....

Third voter in to our polling station.

First time I have cast my vote on a gas hob!

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Two late twenty-something single mothers* outside my polling station arguing:
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" I ain't voting for that ****er, what a posh tosser in his smart suits and all that, even though I think milliband is an ugly ****"[/i]

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

marcus7 - that's bad if they are not making the effort. I've been round and knocked on every door (apart from a few I couldn't access) in my ward. Over 100k steps and I have a severely croaky voice now!

Rachel

" 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 *"

That may end up being as good a basis as intellectual judgement 😀

Sorry for the hijack folks, but in a way I find the local election more interesting as I actually know a lot of the people involved, and there might be a big power shift this election (of those on our ballot paper, 3 of them I know very well - Stoner might live next door to one of his, but given I don't live in a country mansion like him I'm probably geographically closer to one of mine who lives 2 doors away)

[quote=slowjo ]First time I have cast my vote on a gas hob!

😆 - really, where is that? Not sure about the disabled access!

So what pie for democratic participation?

Labour: Pork and pickle - the staple of the working classes but these days possessed of an unshakable whiff of gentrification
Lib Dem: Mince and onions - no one's favourite as it's a bit bland and lacking in substance
Tories: Stew with a hat - they only care about the upper crust
UKIP: Fray Bentos steak and ale - Proud to be both iconically british and deeply ignorant
SNP: Scotch pie - anything else would be tantamount to treason
Greens: Quiche

Greens: Quiche

The bastards, last time I vote for them, quiche indeed.

Quaint village hall for me.

If I'd seen that Katie Hopkins thing I'd have voted Labour though, it'd be worth it to be shot of that colostomy bag of bile.

Local Election
Conservative, UKIP or Lib Dem. That was tricky then.

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...

More or less what STW'ers said on the Miliband thread !

one of the candidates for my constituency lives around 350 miles away

Churchill was MP for Dundee for 14 years and apparently only went there three times!

Labour: Pork and pickle - the staple of the working classes but these days possessed of an unshakable whiff of gentrification

Shouldn't that be:

Labour: Urban farmed spelt-fed Pork with juniper and pomegranate pickle ?

Did my democratic duty this morning BUT frustratingly my vote is worth very little - Hertfordshire North East is an ultra safe Conservative seat & my vote is only worth 0.064 of a vote!!

Checkout - http://www.voterpower.org.uk/

In 2010 the Conservatives got 54% of the vote; Lib/Dems 23%; & Lab 16% - so tactical voting doesn't really work either...... But I tried anyway!

Good luck to the rest of you as your vote is worth 4.8% more than mine - on average. UNLESS - your in one of the 7% very marginals OR 12% of the marginals....

Voted first thing, after thinking I'd better firstly do some research into the candidates, past results and likely outcomes. Was surprised to see the last Lib Dem Candidate was jailed for clubbing his pet cat to death 😯

my vote is only worth 0.064 of a vote!!

Ooh get you with your high numbers. Mines worth 0.040!

0.640 here 🙂

I just don't know how people coped with the utter excitement of such a day before the internet gave them an outlet.

@aracer - Little Saxham just outside Bury St Edmunds.

There is disabled access. It involves the two ladies inside the booth dismantling the table and creating a new polling booth as and when a disabled person arrives. We did ask about it, out of interest more than anything else and they confirmed they had 'been trained' so I guess they know what they are doing!

iirc there are almost 80 potential voters - hence the commodious accommodation! 🙂

0.072

0.420 here.

0.461 😀

0.305!

0.774.

This is apparently 2.54* the power of the average UK vote. Something is decidedly mucked up about that.

Was surprised to see the last Lib Dem Candidate was jailed for clubbing his pet cat to death

If he was UKIP he would have ****ed it first.

Allegedly.

Vote for the dead

I have made my mark

1.105.

Here are the highlights of my current MPs voting during his five years:

Likes:

Bedroom Tax
Cutting Welfare Benefits
Selling Forests
Taxing booze
War

Dislikes:

Taxing the rich
Mansion Tax
Bankers Bonus Tax

It's so difficult.....

Ooh I have 1.025 votes!

Close Con/Lab last time so I'm glad I'm going home. Although given the swing away from Con it should be regained by Lab I think.

scruff - Member
I voted for the ones who wont cut down too many trees

Which ones? The ones who like to hug trees or the ones who like to pay people to do sit watching daytime TV?

Voted in village hall at 7am. Polling station was open and taking voters early - very organised.

For local, voted Cons, although I don't care for Tories or the coalition, the local guy does a reasonable job IMHO.
For national, voted UKIP. (Awaits brickbats).

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

Lib Dem: Mince and onions - no one's favourite as it's a bit bland and lacking in substance

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?