[Closed] Polling day, then

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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