UK election 2019

[SteveH]

It might be the reference to tactile signature guides which can be provided. All ballot papers are the same - they have to be. The thin nature of the ballot paper would make brailling it difficult.

In the contrxt of the post, she obviously meant "tactical voting".

[Nearly Sane]

Ok...

But it is surprising that there is no TV reporter screaming away about the elections and its possibilities.  TV debates, analysis, predictions, exit polls, expert views....etc.etc..  All these are part of election news in India (and in US also as we can see).

We'll have tons of those after the polls close. You aren't allowed to publish an exit poll before then. As Stranger and I have pointed out on election day itself while the polls are opened there is very little leeway for any reporting. So if for example you look at the updating page on the BBC website, you will see pictures of the leaders voting, and people at the poling station with dogs, cats, etc. Also there can be reports of problems at polling station if they are closed for whatever reason.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/election-2019-50755004

[Roses]

   



Blank signature guides are available for writing the 'X' on the ballot paper - on request at the polling station.
Failing that, a proxy or a postal vote are the alternatives.
I use the latter.

My husband and I have postal votes, which suit us better too. I read somewhere Farage said he would do away with them if he was in a position to do so, goodness knows why?

[Udayana]

My husband and I have postal votes, which suit us better too. I read somewhere Farage said he would do away with them if he was in a position to do so, goodness knows why?

Postal votes are (generally) more vulnerable to election fraud.

Also reported:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/bbc-laura-kuenssberg-postal-votes-electoral-commission-a9242976.html

The BBC’s political editor may have broken electoral law by discussing supposed results of postal votes live on air, the Electoral Commission has indicated.

Speaking to the BBC's Politics Live, Laura Kuenssberg claimed to have received tip-offs from those with knowledge of early votes cast in the general election, during a discussion about poor weather impacting voter turnout.

She went on to describe what sources had told her about the results of postal ballots already counted.

And... of-course .. no postal votes are supposed to be counted until after 10pm tonight.

[SusanDoris]

I have not been following this thread, nor have I read the e-mails I have been sent , and when I got in from coffee after tap, I thought,'I'm not going out again today in this weather.' But then of course I remembered I had to vote. Okay, this is a safe seat and I could have not bothered, but I was determined to do so, as it is my democratic right to do so. Taxi there, driver guided me in, I voted, then was brought home again. £5.30 (but I always add a bit extra) so that was the cost of my vote! I hope the democracy of UK appreciates this!!

[Roses]

I wonder how many people realise that Corbyn's parents where obviously quite well off, they bought a stately home when he was seven, and he attended an independent prep school?   

Corbyn was born in Chippenham, Wiltshire, and lived until the age of seven in the nearby village of Kington St Michael. He is the youngest of the four sons of Naomi Loveday (née Josling; 1915–1987), a maths teacher, and David Benjamin Corbyn (1915–1986), an electrical engineer and expert in power rectifiers. His brother Piers Corbyn is a physicist, meteorologist and weather forecaster. His parents were Labour Party members and peace campaigners who met in the 1930s at a committee meeting in support of the Spanish Republic at Conway Hall during the Spanish Civil War.

When Corbyn was seven, the family moved to Pave Lane in Shropshire, where his father bought Yew Tree Manor, a 17th-century country house which was once part of the Duke of Sutherland's Lilleshall estate. Corbyn attended Castle House School, an independent preparatory school near Newport, Shropshire, before, at age 11, becoming a day student at the Adams' Grammar School in the town.

[Anchorman]

I wonder how many people realise that Corbyn's parents where obviously quite well off, they bought a stately home when he was seven, and he attended an independent prep school?   

Corbyn was born in Chippenham, Wiltshire, and lived until the age of seven in the nearby village of Kington St Michael. He is the youngest of the four sons of Naomi Loveday (née Josling; 1915–1987), a maths teacher, and David Benjamin Corbyn (1915–1986), an electrical engineer and expert in power rectifiers. His brother Piers Corbyn is a physicist, meteorologist and weather forecaster. His parents were Labour Party members and peace campaigners who met in the 1930s at a committee meeting in support of the Spanish Republic at Conway Hall during the Spanish Civil War.

When Corbyn was seven, the family moved to Pave Lane in Shropshire, where his father bought Yew Tree Manor, a 17th-century country house which was once part of the Duke of Sutherland's Lilleshall estate. Corbyn attended Castle House School, an independent preparatory school near Newport, Shropshire, before, at age 11, becoming a day student at the Adams' Grammar School in the town.

   


And?
You've heard of Lord Stansgate - AKA Anthony Wedgewood-Benn, haven't you?

[Roses]

   


And?
You've heard of Lord Stansgate - AKA Anthony Wedgewood-Benn, haven't you?

Of course, however Corbyn is a little rougher around the edges than Benn was.

[Nearly Sane]

Ok numbers then.

Cons 342
Lab 227
SNP 40
LDs 19



No independent win

[Udayana]

Tomorrows lottery numbers?

[Robbie]

L'ilRoses:- I wonder how many people realise that Corbyn's parents where obviously quite well off, they bought a stately home when he was seven, and he attended an independent prep school?   

Yes, I knew his background. He's old school; many of the 'elder statesmen', some deceased, & other more recent, socialist politicians were from reasonably well heeled backgrounds and educated. They were highly intellectual and committed to social justice. At the same time they could relate to traditional working class socialists, trade unionists and the like.

There's nothing wrong with a person from a fairly privileged background being a socialist, it just means they think for themselves and don't accept the status quo.

Corbyn is a one off in many ways though, i don't think we can pigeon hole him. I'm not going to attempt psychoanalysis on Jeremy C on here :-)(all theoretical), but have done so in private, in discussion with friends and relatives. We've tried to work him out, he is a complex character and one who will carry on being himself regardless of what happens in terms of his political career.

[Nearly Sane]

Feck!

[Aruntraveller]

Feck!

Fuck

[bluehillside Retd.]

FFS. Don't get ill. Don't get poor. Don't get old.

[SteveH]

FUCKING FUCKETY FUCK-FUCK! Bastard tories predicted to get an 86 majority! 

[Nearly Sane]

IF the numbers are correct Corbyn and Swinson go, Swinson possibly by losing her seat. We have no opposition except a guerilla war in Scotland. The Remain vote would appear to have split uselessly. Still be good for the sales of walk in fridges.

[Gordon]

If the poll is any way accurate regarding the SNP then it is hard to see how anyone can pretend that the UK is 'united': it isn't.

Brexit - the gift that keeps fucking things up.

[SteveH]

I wonder how many people realise that Corbyn's parents where obviously quite well off, they bought a stately home when he was seven, and he attended an independent prep school?   

Corbyn was born in Chippenham, Wiltshire, and lived until the age of seven in the nearby village of Kington St Michael. He is the youngest of the four sons of Naomi Loveday (née Josling; 1915–1987), a maths teacher, and David Benjamin Corbyn (1915–1986), an electrical engineer and expert in power rectifiers. His brother Piers Corbyn is a physicist, meteorologist and weather forecaster. His parents were Labour Party members and peace campaigners who met in the 1930s at a committee meeting in support of the Spanish Republic at Conway Hall during the Spanish Civil War.

When Corbyn was seven, the family moved to Pave Lane in Shropshire, where his father bought Yew Tree Manor, a 17th-century country house which was once part of the Duke of Sutherland's Lilleshall estate. Corbyn attended Castle House School, an independent preparatory school near Newport, Shropshire, before, at age 11, becoming a day student at the Adams' Grammar School in the town.

And Orwell went to Eton. So what? No-one chooses their parents or their school.

[Nearly Sane]

Early start tomorrow - awful numbers all round. Night night.

[Walter]

Is there a fucking echo in here AGAIN ?

[Robbie]

FUCKING FUCKETY FUCK-FUCK! Bastard tories predicted to get an 86 majority! 

I knew there was a reason for my sense of gloom.
What an arsehole aye?
I'm not going to stay up watching results come in, if I sleep well I'll be better equipped to deal with whatever bad tomorrow brings.

[Anchorman]

If the poll is any way accurate regarding the SNP then it is hard to see how anyone can pretend that the UK is 'united': it isn't.

Brexit - the gift that keeps fucking things up.

    It looks too good to be true...Even Swinson's seat looks shaky.
I kind of hoped we'd get 40 or 43 - but 55?
Yet again, it looks as if we will be governed by a party we rejected.
Same old, same old.
If Johnon rejects our demand for Indyref 2, I fear civil unreast by the hotheads.
I hope I'm wrong.

[Nearly Sane]

    It looks too good to be true...Even Swinson's seat looks shaky.
I kind of hoped we'd get 40 or 43 - but 55?
Yet again, it looks as if we will be governed by a party we rejected.
Same old, same old.
If Johnon rejects our demand for Indyref 2, I fear civil unreast by the hotheads.
I hope I'm wrong.

Good? It looks fucking disastrous. It gives a majority to a chicken in a fridge and based on the last couple of Tory govtd that means people dying on the streets. It's a poisoned and pointless chalice for the SNP in that it simply works as a distraction with no power.

[Alan Burns]

I was a staunch Labour supporter until the party voted to elect Red Ed as their leader - since then it has gone from bad to worse with the loony left taking over.  Very sad.

[Nearly Sane]

I was a staunch Labour supporter until the party voted to elect Red Ed as their leader - since then it has gone from bad to worse with the loony left taking over.  Very sad.

Milliband was pale pink. What policy did he put forward that was 'Red'?