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.

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]I love democracy too. xxx

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.

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:

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?

Miliband nasty bad man

😀

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?

Not this year.

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.

I bet you were one of the punters disappointed that the station did not, in fact, have any poles and no one was cavorting on them, scantily clad or otherwise.

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!

Contrary to popular belief, not all of us are racist or anti-immigration. 😀

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 Liam 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