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We are past midnight, so all campaigning is over. The polling stations open at 7:00 (and close at 22:00). So it's time for the voting thread.

It's trickier this year because of voter ID requirements but gov.uk have all the details. However, note this: "You can still use your ID even if it has expired." So an out-of-date passport, for example, will work as long as the name is the same and the photo still looks like you. Don't forget that there are other polling stations rules.

There have been problems in some areas with people getting their postal vote on time but if you haven't got yours and you aren't on your holidays, it's not too late. Details on what to do.

Tactical voting can make a difference in some places and there are a number of sites to help with this. They'll largely be similar but check a couple before committing:

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Lesson to future generations. Run on 'Hope' and 'Change' whenever you can. Keep it simple. The rest is just noise.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

First result is in at Houghton and Sunderland South.

Labour hold with 18,847 (47.1%) but Reform second with 11,668 (29.1%). Turnout also down compared to last 2 elections.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

13 seats for Reform feels like it would be more than a foot in the door for Faragism if the exit poll is accurate for them. I hope Labour will be able to provide effective counters to this.

Of course it's also possible that with suddenly gaining MPs in double digits, the inexperienced party might keep tripping over itself before it can trip anyone else.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Chances of at least 2 of them being disqualified/resigning for saying something awful is like 100%. There will be by-elections in no time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Does anyone have a list of when the results are typically announced for each seat?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is anyone watching the C4 programme? Nadine Dorries is made out of pure salt right now. Her and Alistair Campbell are scrapping at every opportunity. Chaotic but entertaining.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm flipping between C4 and BBC. I don't understand why they have so many Tories on the panel? Dories, Karting, Stewart and Zahawi? They've only got two labour people and Vince cable has been relegated to the children's table?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

More potential for drama I guess. Labour's attitude is too subdued.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Yeah that was funny, she picked a fight with the wrong person!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Cons looking at 130ish seats let the blood games begin!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

130 too many, but I'll take it!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I was hoping they would fall under 100. The exit poll is just another poll though - it still could change yet. Maybe the projections won't properly account for the effect of Reform and independents.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

It's a tricky one, I want the Tories annihilated, but less so if it brings Reform in, shudder.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

SNP hooo boy

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

hahaha get fucked SNP. We are so close to putting all this independence pish to bed. It was still affecting my vote a decade after the referendum. So tired of having to prioritise the constitutional question over everything else.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

It'll be nice not to have to listen to them shoehorn independence into every debate

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Exit poll soon!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

As a non-european I have some questions!

Firstly, is voting in the UK compulsory?

Secondly, how likely is it that the polls are wrong and the Tories will form government?

And thirdly, how have the Tories suddenly fallen from grace? They've presided over a real shit show for the last decade but kept getting elected. What changed?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The polls can possibly be wrong if something is really close, but this basically never happens. Unfortunately, voting isn't compulsory

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Polls in the US and Australia in the last decade have been absurdly inaccurate.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Well, right now Kier Starmer is meeting with His Majesty the King where The King will ask him to form a new government

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

1 - Nope.

2 - That remains to be seen, but the polls have never been too far wrong in the past.

3 - 14 years of mismanagement, no Brexit to use a as single policy election and the rise of Reform.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

2: As Starmer and many others predicted, the end result was much tighter than the polls predicted. Lots of shy Tories out there, and a smaller number of people switching from Labour to Green as a protest (as we'd seen in our local council elections).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

I hope you'll enjoy this politicology podcast as much as I do. I've been a Rob Ford fan for years. Here you go:

Countdown to Extinction

https://stukroodvlees.nl/aflevering-130-countdown-to-extinction-uk-edition-with-rob-ford/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

TBH IDGAF who wins but I'm just happy the Tories are on their way out.

Don't screw this up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Well, so long as Reform don't get in?

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