Finally voted in Bury South, in my marginal straight Lab/Tory ward. "Steady" was the word used to describe activity today. It seemed slightly quieter than when I last voted there around the same time in 2015 - although that was a pleasantly warm May evening not biting December drizzle.
With sweaty palms and a heavy remainer-ish heart, I voted Tory. As always. I felt choked as I left at the thought I've just dived in with those of insane Brexit mind like Boris, Mogg and Foster et al. But Corbyn and McDonnell turn my stomach and will do until hopefully around 3-4am tonight when I can turn in safe and sleep.
Brexit will go on and on and won't get done. And I suspect the next Labour Govt in 5 years will probably quickly hold a new referendum and turn the ongoing transition period into EU re-entry. But in the meantime, at least a fairly moderate Tory PM can steady the ship otherwise.
Assuming he doesn't lose his seat tonight and we end up with Rees Mogg or some other horror.
I've lived here for 9 years and been waiting for it to go back blue but it never has. So tonight it might if all the polls and predictions are right. I can't really see it, but I might for the first time since I started voting in 1997 actually have voted for a winning GE candidate tonight.
Interestingly, I realised driving home that I didn't know where my polling station was. I had a postal vote in 2017, and the library has been closed since 2015 (Labour council cuts). I googled "find my polling station" and clicked on Labour's own site. I was urged by Jez himself to go to the place I voted at in the locals in May.
Wrong. Back to the library (now a community hub). What's one more untruth from Corbyn to finish the campaign.... :-)
I've been voting since 1997 too and pretty certain I've kept up my record of failing to vote for a winner.
I've never voted for the winner since I started voting in 1987... but having gone blue in Finchley I suspect I've broken that record.
Whatever happens tonight...Tories are going to get crushed in the next election.
Tories have nothing left message wise other than I’m not as bad as the other guy. 5 years of nothingness. Big tech and automation will continue to cut jobs and the uk has no answers. More jobs will move overseas. Larger companies will get stronger. Rural towns will become more rural. Factories will not need people but just be automated then it will be trucks then retail and so on and so on.
Tories arent focuses on the big issues. It’s just carry on as we are.
Whatever happens tonight...Tories are going to get crushed in the next election.
Tories have nothing left message wise other than I’m not as bad as the other guy. 5 years of nothingness. Big tech and automation will continue to cut jobs and the uk has no answers. More jobs will move overseas. Larger companies will get stronger. Rural towns will become more rural. Factories will not need people but just be automated then it will be trucks then retail and so on and so on.
Tories arent focuses on the big issues. It’s just carry on as we are.
Whatever happens tonight...Tories are going to get crushed in the next election.
Tories have nothing left message wise other than I’m not as bad as the other guy. 5 years of nothingness. Big tech and automation will continue to cut jobs and the uk has no answers. More jobs will move overseas. Larger companies will get stronger. Rural towns will become more rural. Factories will not need people but just be automated then it will be trucks then retail and so on and so on.
Tories arent focuses on the big issues. It’s just carry on as we are.
We all said that in 2010, 2015 and 2017. Maybe this time it will prevail.
Where's the original Tweet then? Why has it been deleted?
Because the Labour supporter who tweeted it realised what it showed perhaps?
Actually I think nobody should be making capital out of this on either side. She does not look well and that is something I have a huge amount of sympathy with right now. Disagreeing with her politics is fine (and I do) but not how she looks or dresses.
The issue is, from a Labour perspective, if she's sufficiently unwell to know that her shoes don't match and they're on the wrong feet, then should she be putting herself up to be shooed in in a solid Labour constituency
Yeah, but her shoes were fine and matching. The photo was faked.
Express, telegraph, metro as well as Mail all still carrying the story, and there are multiple photos. Your claim this is fake news, is fake news.
I only got in from work at 1900, so haven't been able to catch up.
After the fake nurse publishing boy on floor being promoted by Tories it is hard to know.
Whatever happens tonight...Tories are going to get crushed in the next election.
Tories have nothing left message wise other than I’m not as bad as the other guy. 5 years of nothingness. Big tech and automation will continue to cut jobs and the uk has no answers. More jobs will move overseas. Larger companies will get stronger. Rural towns will become more rural. Factories will not need people but just be automated then it will be trucks then retail and so on and so on.
Tories arent focuses on the big issues. It’s just carry on as we are.
Where's the original Tweet then? Why has it been deleted?
Because the Labour supporter who tweeted it realised what it showed perhaps?
Actually I think nobody should be making capital out of this on either side. She does not look well and that is something I have a huge amount of sympathy with right now. Disagreeing with her politics is fine (and I do) but not how she looks or dresses.
I agree. It is a shame certain posters (Lab and Con)did not apply the same rule to Jo Swinson.
My wife, who is as centrist as is it is possible to be, has had one comment on Swinson - she needs a professional bra fitting and stop the sagging. Other than that, Ms Swinson is wallpaper I’m afraid.
Edit - iOS loves correcting Swinson to Swindon. Bland? Dull?
You may not be JS’s biggest fan, but surely you must agree she’d be a better Prime Minister than Rachael Swindon.
Swinson was pushed too high too fast. A LD William Hague If you were.
Whatever happens tonight...Tories are going to get crushed in the next election.
Tories have nothing left message wise other than I’m not as bad as the other guy. 5 years of nothingness. Big tech and automation will continue to cut jobs and the uk has no answers. More jobs will move overseas. Larger companies will get stronger. Rural towns will become more rural. Factories will not need people but just be automated then it will be trucks then retail and so on and so on.
Tories arent focuses on the big issues. It’s just carry on as we are.
Only if they win this time.
Noone can focus on anything till we get Brexit out of the bloody Commons and into the civil servants
Where's the original Tweet then? Why has it been deleted?
Because the Labour supporter who tweeted it realised what it showed perhaps?
Actually I think nobody should be making capital out of this on either side. She does not look well and that is something I have a huge amount of sympathy with right now. Disagreeing with her politics is fine (and I do) but not how she looks or dresses.
The issue is, from a Labour perspective, if she's sufficiently unwell to know that her shoes don't match and they're on the wrong feet, then should she be putting herself up to be shooed in in a solid Labour constituency
Yeah, but her shoes were fine and matching. The photo was faked.
Express, telegraph, metro as well as Mail all still carrying the story, and there are multiple photos. Your claim this is fake news, is fake news.
I only got in from work at 1900, so haven't been able to catch up.
After the fake nurse publishing boy on floor being promoted by Tories it is hard to know.
Everybody has overreacted because of 2017. It's not going to be a surprise. Boris gets 350/360 and Labour 215/220 no landslide but decent majority of 45 / 55.
Finally voted in Bury South, in my marginal straight Lab/Tory ward. "Steady" was the word used to describe activity today. It seemed slightly quieter than when I last voted there around the same time in 2015 - although that was a pleasantly warm May evening not biting December drizzle.
With sweaty palms and a heavy remainer-ish heart, I voted Tory. As always. I felt choked as I left at the thought I've just dived in with those of insane Brexit mind like Boris, Mogg and Foster et al. But Corbyn and McDonnell turn my stomach and will do until hopefully around 3-4am tonight when I can turn in safe and sleep.
Brexit will go on and on and won't get done. And I suspect the next Labour Govt in 5 years will probably quickly hold a new referendum and turn the ongoing transition period into EU re-entry. But in the meantime, at least a fairly moderate Tory PM can steady the ship otherwise.
Assuming he doesn't lose his seat tonight and we end up with Rees Mogg or some other horror.
I've lived here for 9 years and been waiting for it to go back blue but it never has. So tonight it might if all the polls and predictions are right. I can't really see it, but I might for the first time since I started voting in 1997 actually have voted for a winning GE candidate tonight.
Interestingly, I realised driving home that I didn't know where my polling station was. I had a postal vote in 2017, and the library has been closed since 2015 (Labour council cuts). I googled "find my polling station" and clicked on Labour's own site. I was urged by Jez himself to go to the place I voted at in the locals in May.
Wrong. Back to the library (now a community hub). What's one more untruth from Corbyn to finish the campaign.... :-)
I've been voting since 1997 too and pretty certain I've kept up my record of failing to vote for a winner.
I've never voted for the winner since I started voting in 1987... but having gone blue in Finchley I suspect I've broken that record.
It is possible that I may break another duck though. Could have voted for a candidate from a party which wins a majority for the first time.
Whatever happens tonight...Tories are going to get crushed in the next election.
Tories have nothing left message wise other than I’m not as bad as the other guy. 5 years of nothingness. Big tech and automation will continue to cut jobs and the uk has no answers. More jobs will move overseas. Larger companies will get stronger. Rural towns will become more rural. Factories will not need people but just be automated then it will be trucks then retail and so on and so on.
Tories arent focuses on the big issues. It’s just carry on as we are.
You don't see the irony in forecasting with assurance what will happen in five years time when you can't predict five hours ahead?
Interesting people are saying London is so bad for the Tories. It is the one part of the country where you would have thought normally left-leaning middle class types would be petrified about what will happen to the value of their homes.
Whatever happens tonight...Tories are going to get crushed in the next election.
Tories have nothing left message wise other than I’m not as bad as the other guy. 5 years of nothingness. Big tech and automation will continue to cut jobs and the uk has no answers. More jobs will move overseas. Larger companies will get stronger. Rural towns will become more rural. Factories will not need people but just be automated then it will be trucks then retail and so on and so on.
Tories arent focuses on the big issues. It’s just carry on as we are.
We all said that in 2010, 2015 and 2017. Maybe this time it will prevail.
Sometime Labour has to choose an electable leader.
Whatever happens tonight...Tories are going to get crushed in the next election.
Tories have nothing left message wise other than I’m not as bad as the other guy. 5 years of nothingness. Big tech and automation will continue to cut jobs and the uk has no answers. More jobs will move overseas. Larger companies will get stronger. Rural towns will become more rural. Factories will not need people but just be automated then it will be trucks then retail and so on and so on.
Tories arent focuses on the big issues. It’s just carry on as we are.
You don't see the irony in forecasting with assurance what will happen in five years time when you can't predict five hours ahead?
Interesting people are saying London is so bad for the Tories. It is the one part of the country where you would have thought normally left-leaning middle class types would be petrified about what will happen to the value of their homes.
If they don't believe the threat is real, or at least the threat hasn't been well articulated, then they won't be.
They may get a rude awakening in just over half an hour.
Interesting people are saying London is so bad for the Tories. It is the one part of the country where you would have thought normally left-leaning middle class types would be petrified about what will happen to the value of their homes.
A lot of the Labour vote will be predicated on them not actually winning - like last time but more so. Is that assumption about to be proven wrong????
Early peek at the exit poll data? Can't believe they won't have tipped him a nod as part of their presenting line up.
If there is one person you wouldn't tell, its him.....actually on second thoughts, him and that bloke off twitter who leaked the YouGov MRP.
Ok, fair point. But when he arrived at Sky News studios, surely someone raised their eyebrows, furrowed their brow, or pursed their lips to give him some sort of inkling.
As ever, probably reading too much into nothing...
Interesting people are saying London is so bad for the Tories. It is the one part of the country where you would have thought normally left-leaning middle class types would be petrified about what will happen to the value of their homes.
Really not sure you can read much into Twitter posts - and I know I keep posting them so I am a hypocrite - but nobody really knows except the exit poll people. And it's quite possible they don't know either!
Just voted in Cheltenham. chatting to the bloke on the desk he said turnout was usually 20% of people eligible to vote, 1 hour to go and 66% of voters had voted and they were still coming in.
I live in the bluest of the blue wards in Cheltenham, the yellow peril infest the cheap seats the other side of town.
Interesting people are saying London is so bad for the Tories. It is the one part of the country where you would have thought normally left-leaning middle class types would be petrified about what will happen to the value of their homes.
And their mortgages.
And their suffering will provide a little bit of emotional compensation!
Interesting people are saying London is so bad for the Tories. It is the one part of the country where you would have thought normally left-leaning middle class types would be petrified about what will happen to the value of their homes.
1. Looks like Tories have done well in Durham / NE (thinking Pidcock comments / early view Bishop Auckland is Tory, though Rochdale mentioned Stockton might be seeing Labour voters out; 2. If turnout high, I think it probably benefits the Tories as more likely to be a repeat of 2016 i.e. non-voters coming out. 3. London a bit odd. Talk Labour doing very well but some weird patterns. Johnson possibly in trouble but Labour pulling activists out of Chingford and asking for help in Battersea 4. Walsall South going to the Tories would suggest a whole swathe of Labour seats in the Midlands are gone; 5. We do not seem to have much from Wales, the NW and Yorkshire. Those could be key.
Where's the original Tweet then? Why has it been deleted?
Because the Labour supporter who tweeted it realised what it showed perhaps?
Actually I think nobody should be making capital out of this on either side. She does not look well and that is something I have a huge amount of sympathy with right now. Disagreeing with her politics is fine (and I do) but not how she looks or dresses.
The issue is, from a Labour perspective, if she's sufficiently unwell to know that her shoes don't match and they're on the wrong feet, then should she be putting herself up to be shooed in in a solid Labour constituency
Yeah, but her shoes were fine and matching. The photo was faked.
Express, telegraph, metro as well as Mail all still carrying the story, and there are multiple photos. Your claim this is fake news, is fake news.
I only got in from work at 1900, so haven't been able to catch up.
After the fake nurse publishing boy on floor being promoted by Tories it is hard to know.
Really not sure you can read much into Twitter posts - and I know I keep posting them so I am a hypocrite - but nobody really knows except the exit poll people. And it's quite possible they don't know either!
In order to get sight of the exit poll before 10pm you have to sign an NDA. No NDA, no exit poll. If you have signed the NDA and see the exit poll, you cannot reveal anything before 10pm.
I know Bercow's annoying, but even he's not annoying enough to break that NDA (if he's even signed it).
Early peek at the exit poll data? Can't believe they won't have tipped him a nod as part of their presenting line up.
Talking heads get the exit poll at 9.45.
What about all those millions of voters still in the polling station queues - don't they get a say?!
We haven't had many tweets about screw up this time...still time for the I turned up at 9.59pm, no polling card, no id, wrong polling station and the bastards won't let me vote, type tweets...
Early peek at the exit poll data? Can't believe they won't have tipped him a nod as part of their presenting line up.
Talking heads get the exit poll at 9.45.
What about all those millions of voters still in the polling station queues - don't they get a say?!
We haven't had many tweets about screw ups this time...still time for the I turned up at 9.59pm, no polling card, no id, no registered at the wrong polling station and the bastards won't let me vote, type tweets...
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Tories have nothing left message wise other than I’m not as bad as the other guy. 5 years of nothingness. Big tech and automation will continue to cut jobs and the uk has no answers. More jobs will move overseas. Larger companies will get stronger. Rural towns will become more rural. Factories will not need people but just be automated then it will be trucks then retail and so on and so on.
Tories arent focuses on the big issues. It’s just carry on as we are.
After the fake nurse publishing boy on floor being promoted by Tories it is hard to know.
Early peek at the exit poll data? Can't believe they won't have tipped him a nod as part of their presenting line up.
That's why I'm so certain about it.
I've said it. I feel better.
https://twitter.com/mjturner1975/status/1205232354354176000
https://twitter.com/anthonyjwells/status/1205233261364031504
They may get a rude awakening in just over half an hour.
As ever, probably reading too much into nothing...
Won't be watching Sky News much tonight if things are going Jezza's way....
I live in the bluest of the blue wards in Cheltenham, the yellow peril infest the cheap seats the other side of town.
1. Looks like Tories have done well in Durham / NE (thinking Pidcock comments / early view Bishop Auckland is Tory, though Rochdale mentioned Stockton might be seeing Labour voters out;
2. If turnout high, I think it probably benefits the Tories as more likely to be a repeat of 2016 i.e. non-voters coming out.
3. London a bit odd. Talk Labour doing very well but some weird patterns. Johnson possibly in trouble but Labour pulling activists out of Chingford and asking for help in Battersea
4. Walsall South going to the Tories would suggest a whole swathe of Labour seats in the Midlands are gone;
5. We do not seem to have much from Wales, the NW and Yorkshire. Those could be key.
Con 43% 355 seats
Lab 33% 215 seats
Lib Dem 14% 15 seats
SNP 46 seats
Brexit Party 0 seats.
Green 1 seat.
Others 18 seats.
Con Majority 60
We’ll know in 30 minutes...
I know Bercow's annoying, but even he's not annoying enough to break that NDA (if he's even signed it).