I voted in a village hall at about 4pm, and for the first time didn't even take my polling card with me. Amazing how lax we are about ID in this country. In the United States you can't even buy a local train ticket without showing ID.
We don't have a history of actively segregating the population based on race that has had far reaching consequences still felt today
I could really be on board with Boris losing his seat but Tory overall majority.
Hell yeah. Would be fun to see who they then picked as PM.
He would stay as PM I guess and someone would step down in a safe seat
I don't think you can have an unelected PM? Don't they have to be a Member of Parliament? Of Commons or Lords? Maybe they would elevate him quickly to the House of Lords.
However, I suspect the tory party would ditch him very fast.
All fun but fanciful at this stage.
Alec Douglas Home was not a member of either house for a few weeks in 1963.
Patrick Gordon Walker was Foreign Secretary for four months in 1964-65 but not a member of either house.
Oh my goodness don't mention Patrick Gordon Walker! Parachuting Boris into a safe seat might not work too well.
Hopefully not!
But if he loses his seat he’ll be defenestrated faster than you say ‘you’ve buggered up the autocue you mophaired oaf.’
OK, time for my polling station story. Arrived 6.15ish with the rest of the after work commuter crowd. And crowd is the right word for it. There were at least 15 queueing when I arrived and 20 by the time I left. That must count as "brisk" in anyone's book.
The most exciting part was that the desks and booths were in reverse formation from last time.
Oh, and Wor Lass told me to stop slagging off Philip Davies within earshot of the other voters as we were stood in the queue.
Shame it wasn't within Philip Davies' earshot. Dreadful man.
If it is close in Crewe, Tories aren't getting a majority.
It is however Skwawkbox, who is infamous for his dishonesty and total fabrications.
Just like the Daily Mail that has been posted here then?
Well, yes. We have two thoroughly unreliable sources of news giving the same information. One of them has links to Fascist groups and he other is owned by Lord Rothermere...
Presumably if London is resisting the Tory tide Jon Cruddas is safe in Dagenham?
Nope.
If it's the inverse of 2017 and seats that voted less than 60% Remain swing towards the Conservatives then Dagenham should be a Conservative gain because it's a Leave seat if I'm correct.
Voted at around noon in Sevenoaks. The only person in the polling station, and squinting at the list of electors, looked like very few names crossed off by that point - perhaps 10% at a guess. Still, it's a Tory safe seat, so not of any significance.
Daughter voted in Canterbury today - she's at Kent University. It was quiet-ish in her polling station with a single Labour teller. On the campus, however, students were queueing up to vote and mostly going on about voting Labour, as you'd expect. So probably little chance of Anna Firth taking the seat, in line with the YouGov MRP.
Wasn't it like this on the campus in 2017 though? Depends how things have changed elsewhere in Canterbury.
So, if BJ loses will he likely get appointed to the Lords before he forces a friendly Tory MP in a safe seat into retirement (perhaps going back to his old constituency)?
Presumably if London is resisting the Tory tide Jon Cruddas is safe in Dagenham?
Nope.
If it's the inverse of 2017 and seats that voted less than 60% Remain swing towards the Conservatives then Dagenham should be a Conservative gain because it's a Leave seat if I'm correct.
You may well be right, but the wildly confident predictions of some of you PB Tories just demonstrates a positive mental attitude. I like that!.
If it is close in Crewe, Tories aren't getting a majority.
None of these silly little tweets mean anything. Labour may or may not be struggling in Crewe, or in Wrexham, or in Hull, or in any number of other places. We just don't know. It's all noise to fill the howling void whilst people twiddle their thumbs waiting nervously for the results. That's all.
Lib Dems are out knocking up in Kew tonight - now, at 8:30 - one of their safest wards of their 'nailed on' gain of Richmond Park and Kew.
That’s because that’s what you do you can’t move every activist by order from high command you might just do it between adjacent council wards but it’s not normal.
Any of you players changed your betting views yet? Robert still going for Boris to win bigly?
Nope, my betting position hasn’t changed for two weeks. I’m betting on 60 majority, but with insurance lower. A few individual seat bets that I’ve topped up as odds allowed.
In the United States you can't even buy a local train ticket without showing ID.
Absolute bollocks.
I had to show ID when buying a train ticket from Boston's North Station to Salem a couple of years ago.
Were you paying at a ticket window with a non-US card? Sounds like they were just double-checking your ID against your card (I've had to show ID to use a non-Swedish card in a Stockholm department store, so it's not just the US).
I can assure you that you do not need to show ID to buy tickets on NYC area rail including Metro-North, the Long Island Railroad and New Jersey Transit. Quite a while since I last used the T (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority) commuter rail but no need to show ID then either.
Sources (twitter journalists) Tories leading in Dagenham, Putney, Chingford, Wimbledon. Diverting resources to Battersea from Putney. Bishop Auckland is a ‘cast iron gain’. Rother Valley, Derby North, Bolsover and Bassetlaw will go blue. West Midlands - tough fight in Birmingham northfield and two Coventry seats.
Labour - Paul sweeney looks doomed in Glasgow northeast. Watford, Battersea, Uxbridge, Chingford, Enfield Finchley and Kensington are where they still are canvassing. Morecambe, High Peak, Pudsey, Grimsby vote holding up well. Stroud looks bad for labour due to split vote.
Amber Valley. Had a Conservative leaflet delivered sometime between 3:10PM and 7:00PM. Not unusual for this to happen on the day, it has happened before. Seems a bit pointless though, Nigel Mills will likely increase his majority to 5 figures. I had already voted in any case
Why the fuck does anyone in this benighted country ever travel by train? The useless bastards have delayed my train so that I won’t be at home by the exit poll. I hate them. Yes I may have had a drink. But it does not excuse their incompetence.
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Like I said, the Daily Mail makes up lies but because it's pro-Tory it gets a pass.
But if he loses his seat he’ll be defenestrated faster than you say ‘you’ve buggered up the autocue you mophaired oaf.’
If it's the inverse of 2017 and seats that voted less than 60% Remain swing towards the Conservatives then Dagenham should be a Conservative gain because it's a Leave seat if I'm correct.
Here's the same photo. It's a fake.
You're saying she posted two of the same photo?
https://www.instagram.com/p/B58DqnrAAXG/
https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/politics/market/1.136297311
Please
A reminder here is my swingometer that you can print off and use in your own home:
That what you mean?
You shouldn't believe all these rebuttals you get off the internet :-)
https://www.ladbible.com/news/uk-mp-diane-abbott-photographed-wearing-two-odd-shoes-20191212
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That’s because that’s what you do you can’t move every activist by order from high command you might just do it between adjacent council wards but it’s not normal.
But I’m a fun bettor only.
Con maj just backed in to sub 1.4 and Labour under 206.5 has collapsed in.
Edit: And a spike up in GBP/USD at the same time.
I can assure you that you do not need to show ID to buy tickets on NYC area rail including Metro-North, the Long Island Railroad and New Jersey Transit. Quite a while since I last used the T (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority) commuter rail but no need to show ID then either.
Diverting resources to Battersea from Putney.
Bishop Auckland is a ‘cast iron gain’. Rother Valley, Derby North, Bolsover and Bassetlaw will go blue.
West Midlands - tough fight in Birmingham northfield and two Coventry seats.
Labour - Paul sweeney looks doomed in Glasgow northeast.
Watford, Battersea, Uxbridge, Chingford, Enfield Finchley and Kensington are where they still are canvassing.
Morecambe, High Peak, Pudsey, Grimsby vote holding up well.
Stroud looks bad for labour due to split vote.
More healthy than crisps.
Incidentally OT - if anyone is planning to hire any power tools, scaffold towers etc, at Christmas you get great deals and often the extra days free.