fingers crossed that due to first past the post, their polling percentage doesn’t translate to a single seat
Just been to a surprisingly empty polling station with not many names marked off on the sheets… Hopefully more people will be voting in the evening.
Just voted and there was no parking anywhere near the polling place (not polling station in Scotland). Never known an election so busy at 2.30pm- seemed busier than the referendum. We are a marginal.
There was a queue of people out of the door at 7.30am this morning at our polling station in the South East.
Ah, I grok. I thought it was just about Portillo saying something stupid on television, as he seems to be on it quite a lot. I suppose this is what comes of having all that free time.
Marginal here as well, Tory by a couple of hundred votes last time. Hopefully there’ll be a decent turnout in the end, I’m expecting a high turnout overall.
Holy mother of shit, you really will take ANY opportunity to point how MASSIVELY DIFFERENT Scotland is, won’t you? You must be a riot at parties.
I COME FROM WARWICKSHIRE WHERE THEY CALL BREAD ROLLS “BATCHES”. WE DEMAND INDEPENDENCE NOW FROM OUR WESTMINSTER OVERLORDS/NEOCOLONIAL MENTALIST FUCKWIT DRILLSERGEANT NAZI DICTATORS.
I’m always amused by the gaggle of party tellers who sit outside the polling station trying to prize voter registration numbers out of people. They always seem to be getting on like a house on fire, despite being one Tory, one Labour, one Green or whatever (I guess it varies according to who’s in the running in that constituency). You’d think they’d be sitting there in hostile silence, but not a bit of it.
There’s got to be a sitcom idea in there somewhere? Victoria Wood could do it.
Decaffeinated beverages are available, you know.
This is Sweden. I think they may be against the law.
He’s probably getting an early start on the caffeine for staying up till 7am.
And they’re cobs.
I have to go in a sec but, in the polling station, I was surprised that, of the six of us voters, only another old geezer and myself understood what to do.
You kind of assume everyone except kids know what to do in a polling station.
Sounded like three Africans and one from Eastern Europe - questions like ‘a cross - like this?’, ‘just one?’ where?. Pretty interesting. I was a little moved by it, actually.
Heathen.
Just realised I don’t actually know - how long does an immigrant have to be here till they’re allowed to vote? If it’s not immediate, that could be why there weren’t that many people voting where I am, there’s a lot of (very welcome, as far as I’m concerned) Eastern Europeans and East Asians living here.
Plus it’s pissing it down, which won’t help.
Over 'ere they give you little envelopes to put your vote in, but the pieces of paper with the name of you want to vote for are in full display of everyone. So either you let everyone see who you are going to vote for or you take a selection of different ones making it look like you are still undecided up until the last second (and also creating a lot of unnecessary waste).
All very bizarre.
But right, off to a Lindy Hop lesson followed by a pub quiz. I’ll see you chaps here around midnight for the election fallout and hopefully more bread rolls.
I wonder if any of them voted UKIP?
For the general election they have to become citizens, so those East Europeans may not ever get to vote as they won’t have to become citizens to live there. Well, unless the Tories get in, there’s a referendum and the UK leaves the EU.
actually, that was a little too silly.
Bright sunshine here.
Real foreigners cannot vote in general elections
Naturalised foreigners can
Commonwealth citizens can
Irish citizens can.
For a GE you need either UK citizenship, Irish citizenship or Commonwealth citizenship with leave to remain. Other elections have less strict eligibilty.