To ask your election night plans (if any)

I'd put it slightly differently - I'm amazed people think the change will make such a noticable difference to their lives and circumstances to make them so passionate about it. Yet so many personally significant moments go uncelebrated. We are strange creatures.

And ours! It’ll be unbelievable

Flick it on and off the telly until about 10pm, go to bed, final online check and wake up to see if my prediction was right.

I like waking up to see the final result, the fun feeling is a bit like remembering that its Christmas morning or your birthday.

Then up for a coffee and browse the news.

I've decided that I'm going to take over the living room as a base camp for the night, duvet on the sofa and a make shift bed like when you were ill as a child, then I can nap and watch the whole night. I'm excited!

It's our son's first time to vote so we will probably all go down together after dinner. Usually watch the news, go to bed feeling hopeful and then wake up early to watch the results in deep despair! Our seat has been safe Tory since 1950 and it looks like it will change this time which is a big deal but i dont feel particularly jubilant or hopeful

I’m having a few friends over for a party to start for just before 10pm ready for the exit polls (will squeeze in a couple of hours nap first) then staying up through the night for the results. Thinking pizza delivery and (hopefully) fizz for the exit polls, moving onto plenty of coffee to get us through. Tory seat losses bingo cards at the ready. Have the Friday off work so just need to get the kids to school then I’ll sleep until pick up!

General Elections and Eurovision, the only occasions when I host a party, and tbh they’re not that dissimilar.

I'll be in bed before the polls close. Will have a quick Google at some point between 4am and 5am before I head off for work to see what's occurring.

I don't think this thread is representative. Most on this thread are politicised. In real life, many people vote then forget about it. Most people don't stay up at all. I'm very political, and I've never pulled an all nighter on election night. I do watch from very early morning (about 4) as I'm an early bird, and it's usually a really interesting time to watch from.

I'll be working the next morning, early shift, so I'll go to bed very early and then get up around 4am to see how it's going, and watch for a couple of hours before work.
I've actually never stayed up absolutely all night to watch a general election. I probably should, as often can't sleep that well on the night anyway. But, I really worry, in case it's a bad result and depressing to watch.
I'm not excited about this general election at all. As a left-wing person. Labour has sold its soul. I'm voting Green, so I'll be interested in Brighton, Bristol Central, North Herefordshire and Waveney Valley. Also rooting for Jeremy Corbyn in Islington North, and other socialist independents. Other than that, not really.
I don't think realistically many people can stay up all night for it, due to work, school etc.
The great thing is, nowadays, with iPlayer and YouTube we can watch the good bits at our leisure later on, and miss the boring bits!

So not every count centre counts in 20s, like ours?

Count supervisor, so up all night making sure my team can count to 25!

@pizzaHeart the point is that the ID rule isn't necessary. There was never any evidence of election fraud, and Jacob Rees-Mogg has admitted that the move was intended to stop certain groups of voters from voting. (It backfired, Tory voters were more affected). But I understand the annoyance.

However, we're stuck with it for the time being, so @PropertyManager get your revenge by getting a voted ID card or a postal card and voting out the people who brought in this rule.

There are a lot of other IDs you can use e.g bus pass. My teen DD hasn’t got driving license and she has 3 photos IDs ( and that’s without college card)
Do you want to vote or do you want a reason to moan here? If you want to vote you can easily sort it out.

Agree with this^
UK always supports USA on these issues, Tories would absolutely do the same.

So what's wrong with getting a postal vote, @PropertyManager? Not only will you not have to get photo ID, but you will get a postal vote for every election from now on.

And even if you do still return a Tory MP, every vote against them will demonstrate how much people abhor their policies and ethos.

@ChallahPlaiter - you are right about the differences between the ideologies of the two main parties - even though I have not been directly affected by the worst of the Tory policies that have so badly affected you and many others, I still hate them for the damage and hurt they have caused. I truly hope that Labour will do better - their ideology should dictate that they will - but I am depressed about the state of politics altogether, and that depression makes me cynical about any politician's ability to put the needs of the most marginalised in society above their own. And yes, I do acknowledge how privileged this makes me.

I will be casting my vote tactically to get the Tories out, and I hope that Labour do win - and I truly hope I am proved wrong, and they lift up the people who need it the most.

Such a privileged point of view to say all the parties are the same. No they’re bloody well not, if you’re a member of a marginalised group that the Tories have demonised, impoverished and generally given a good kicking since 2010. I can’t wait for them to get their boot off the back of my neck.

I'll be going to bed after a normal Thursday evening - though the hall we use for the yoga is being used for voting so we are hoping for sunshine so we can do it in a garden! I find the whole thing depressing as I don't want any of them to win so no result to celebrate here.

I always stay up. Love election nights and I can easily power through the next day if it's only 1 night of no sleep. This time it's the night before the end of term for me (private school teacher) so even less need for sleep, it's only 1 day to get thorough.

I hate exit polls though - why have spoilers? Would make a much more exciting night without them.

I'm trying to be excited about Labour winning because I know it's the best thing for the most people. But I also know I could well lose my job when VAT on school fees comes in so Labour are bad news for me personally. But I'll get over myself and cheer along.

I knew the spinning is different, Olaf Kier was Danish, pronounced the same though, good enough for me!

Thank you for again proving my point about the spelling.

Problem I have with him is he is a classic "problems man", very good at stating the problem, that everyone else can see - but less forthcoming with solutions.

And what we have is problems, and what we need is solutions, not promises.

I don’t find Starmer very inspiring, but he says he’ll only make promises that he can actually deliver. If that turns out to be true, he’ll be a breath of fresh air in our stale, disreputable system.

That's it, just the name, and he has similarities in charisma level to a concrete block.

In my mind a bit of a false messiah, everyone thinks he has all the answers, all will be well under his leadership - I have great misgivings...

...and have zero time for the incumbents either - very few in the commons these days who could run a bath, let alone a country.

What does that have to do with Starmer, apart from the name? I don't get it?

J.L.Kier & Co., better known these days just as Kier, one of Britain's biggest building firms.