Election Day Thread

andy

Did you vote? What do you think the results will be? I think Corbyn and Lynne will get back in, Tories largest party (c.299 seats), but no overall majority, despite the best efforts of The Sun. Voted this morning - decent length queues at our Polling Station and Cllr Watts checking ballots at the gate. And if I'm honest, that lad needs a good night's sleep and a weekend off.

graeme

Why do they check the ballots? (I can't remember, I might have asked this before...)

andy

make sure they've got their vote out

Arkady

I think that’s a good call Andy. A survivable minority government would require about 300 seats, so that would be seriously borderline. I fear they’ll get a few more than that though. I’ll be up all night with some comrades and too much booze, I may post increasingly drunken comments here. I predict that the Greens will do well locally, based on the number of signs. I know a couple of seriously disillusioned Labour votes who are voting green in Islington North (Corbyn’s constituency) too. Might be an interesting night for them, I’m hoping they take Brighton.

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Arkady

I’m far too professional to run out of booze. Yeah Lynn’s constituency office is above it which is handy. The latest rumour is that they’re kicking people out at two ‘and then reopening later’, which I’ve taken to mean that people who haven’t done party work will be evicted. I might be able to blag it but I’ll have too many pals with me to risk it, so I think my comfy sofa and widescreen is probably the way forward. Cheaper and less far to crawl to bed too.

Slabber

Are any of the local bars doing an all night election night?

krappyrubsnif

Gave Jeremy Corbyn a cheer as I sped past him on the bike this morning near Arsenal. Poor chap, still knocking on doors all day. He'd have my vote if I was in Islington North, but I'm not.

dion

@slabber - the dairy looked like it had something going on

andy

The Channel 4 thing is quite good.

andy

or was, until Liddle, Hatton and Currie came on. I'll turn it back on when the Mitchell, Carr, Brooker dreamteam are back on.

andy

Exit polls calling a hung parliament. I remember '92, when the exit polls called a hung parliament and we ended up with a small tory majority

miss annie

Can't look at Jimmy Carr. His gigantic, smug, moon like face irritates me beyond measure.

David

It's like watching West South-West Andy as a TV programme. 

andy

there are far too many new members on the site to understand this

David

I dunno, its a pretty well labelled diagram. Carr keeps fluffing his lines.

Arkady

C4 show pretty funny. The food sketch was hideous though. I call bullshit on the exit polls.

andy

David Baddiel, Kelly Holmes, Dom Joly, Fern Britton on BBC1 Is there a more random collection of celebs? This is not fishing with a line, people.

andy

Is that Vernon?

andy

It is! Lucy just threw something at the TV

sophie

cannot stand andrew neil. also think that emily maitlis' skirt is a bit short. therefore have been mainly watching channel 4. i haven't yet considered itv as a sensible alternative.

David

_"Its like choosing between angus steakhouse, aberdeen steakhouse and garfunkels"_

andy

huge tory swings in the first couple of seats.

andy

Lucy is screaming at the TV every time VB is on

David

VB? I've missed something? Who VB?

sophie

i'm scared. swings like that in sunderland? it's going to be a fucking landslide isn't it.

andy

vernon bogdanor on bbc1. lucy has fond memories

Liz

Me too. He is smug as all hell. Annoying me that any of my licence fee could be going on paying him.

Glyn

@ Sophie - Hope not. Exit poll looked pretty weird to me. Would have expected lower no. of seats for Labour and higher for Lib Dems. Its only really in the marginals that it will become clear if the Tories are going to get the 7-8% swing that they need for a majority.

Glyn

Vernon Bogdanor infinitely preferable to bloody George Osbourne.

Liz

Vern looks exactly the same as he did 15 years ago - how is that possible? Perhaps a portrait in the attic somewhere? Same could also be true of George Osborne though.