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Anyone else planning to set an early alarm to watch the results come in?

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MaGueule · 03/07/2024 11:53

We didn’t bother in 2019, but there should be more than a few Portillo moments worth getting up at 3:30 for this year. Several friends are doing the same, and I appear to be in a WhatsApp group called 3:30 am Massacre of the Innocents, which I presume is ironic.

Will we be watching Rory and Alistair on Channel 4? Or BBC coverage?

Anyone else planning an early wake up, and to get through Friday fuelled by coffee and hope for a brighter future?

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Arlanymor · 04/07/2024 15:31

Antoine Derigny champagne is half price on Ocado if anyone is interested...

Belindabelle · 04/07/2024 15:00

I will start the evening watching the Murray brothers hopefully win at Wimbledon.
Then plan is to stay up right the way through aided by champagne and espresso martinis. Don’t have to work or drive tomorrow so should be ok.

CH4 for me I think though may dip into some other channels.

ilovesooty · 04/07/2024 14:42

G3nnyL3ccy24 · 03/07/2024 12:09

We plan on bed after exit poll and get up at 3 to either watch in bed on laptop or duvet downstairs....

Me too.

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MaGueule · 04/07/2024 14:40

Countrylife2002 · 04/07/2024 13:27

I am so excited I can’t focus on anything! Roll on 10pm.

I’m excited too! I get back from choir rehearsal at 9.45 so just long enough to make a cuppa and find a chocolate digestive.

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MaGueule · 04/07/2024 14:38

Thanks for posting the Portillo clip. It’s golden!

I was living overseas ( in a remote African country) at the time, and my dad loved it so much, he sent me a VHS and made me promise to walk down to the local nunnery (bizarrely, the only place with a VHS player) to watch it. It was worth it!

I’ll be enjoying tomorrow’s moments live and in the comfort of my living room.

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EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 04/07/2024 13:46

EnglishBluebell · 04/07/2024 12:52

No I won’t be!

What is a Portillo moment?

Portillo Moment refers to the dawning horror on former Conservative MP Michael Portillo's face as he lost his presumed "safe" seat. I remember it though it was many years ago now

Countrylife2002 · 04/07/2024 13:27

I am so excited I can’t focus on anything! Roll on 10pm.

BIossomtoes · 04/07/2024 12:57

EnglishBluebell · 04/07/2024 12:54

Are you reallllly that bothered to get up at 3am?!?!

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Why not? I’m not going to bed at all.

EnglishBluebell · 04/07/2024 12:54

G3nnyL3ccy24 · 03/07/2024 12:09

We plan on bed after exit poll and get up at 3 to either watch in bed on laptop or duvet downstairs....

Are you reallllly that bothered to get up at 3am?!?!

EnglishBluebell · 04/07/2024 12:52

No I won’t be!

What is a Portillo moment?

Countrylife2002 · 04/07/2024 07:29

Yes watching the exit polls then up again at 3am. I’ve been off sick all week with a lergy but I am not missing this !

first year ever not watching BBC, will be watching channel 4 analysis on the telly but maybe sky next to me on laptop

UnimaginableWindBird · 04/07/2024 05:22

I'm going to be in bed by 9 and will set an alarm for 2:45. I think I'm going to have BBC coverage in the sitting room and chanel 4 on a laptop in the kitchen and will do some middle of the night baking and make a fancy cream tea for breakfast.

Fooshufflewickjbannanapants · 04/07/2024 05:00

I'll be counting the votes! So will be awake anyway.

captainsudoku · 03/07/2024 21:18

I'm getting nervous now, so tomorrow I'm going to go to bed after the exit polls and then wake up for about 4am. For Brexit and the 2019 election I went to bed hopeful and then got a shock upon waking up. So I'd rather try and stay awake this time!

Arlanymor · 03/07/2024 21:17

Tomorrow will work 8-5, then have a bit of a snooze and set my alarm for 10pm… then watch through until 4 or 5am depending on how results are going… then a Nana nap until 9am… and start work again at about 12pm.

I’m lucky to have flexible hours and some TOIL built up.

Perr · 03/07/2024 21:13

I would have loved to but I have a long drive on Friday.
I'll sneak a look on my 3 bathroom trips though. Usually 1am, 3am and 5am.

WithACatLikeTread · 03/07/2024 20:56

MorrisZapp · 03/07/2024 20:26

I'm unconvinced by the 'bed straight after exit poll' brigade. The exit poll is the starting gun on the actual coverage, and if it's in any way different to previous polling, they'll be swingometering the fuck out of it. I suspect this will be the moment people shuffling towards the bedroom find themselves oddly drawn back to the sofa. Not to mention witnessing Nicola Sturgeon as a pundit in real time. As Pavarotti said... None shall sleep!

Sturgeon on the TV makes me want to turn it off.

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MaGueule · 03/07/2024 20:48

I hadn’t thought of early morning snack requirements. I’m at a meeting at 9.30am with a large buffet of fresh fruit and pastries. But a 3.30 start might necessitate a 6am bacon sandwich.

While I’ve decided my vote, I’m still a BBC/C4 undecided but will enjoy Nick and Amol on the drive to work (although Michel is my favourite.)

Just found out BIL (who works in Political PR across Europe) has already been signed up for a Tory leadership campaign. He’s hoping they keep their seat - I’m not so sure 😆

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McSteamyorMcdreamy · 03/07/2024 20:47

HandymcCandy · 03/07/2024 20:33

What happened?

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He did a little speech at the end of his broadcast.

Was very poetic!

MotherOfCatBoy · 03/07/2024 20:41

We’ve got popcorn and bubbly at the ready though I’m still not prepared to pop the cork til I know we have a Labour government- not sure if that means I’ll be drinking at 9am instead of 9pm?
In 1997 I could have pulled an all nighter, now if I do that my body will punish me severely so I think I’ll crawl to bed about midnight and see what happens in the morning.

Im still nervous tbh - polls mean nothing, Brexit taught us that.

TheGriffle · 03/07/2024 20:40

I’ve volunteered to work the count in my town so won’t be home until gone 3am I don’t think so will have a little look before I try and get some sleep.

LlynTegid · 03/07/2024 20:39

I think the sunshine coming through my windows will be enough to wake me up.

StripedPiggy · 03/07/2024 20:38

I’m doing an all-nighter. I will finish work around 4-30, then straight to bed for a few hours kip before waking up for the exit poll. Then it’s time to pop the 🍾 (hopefully), get the 🍿 out & watch the fun as the Tory party gets obliterated.

LuluBlakey1 · 03/07/2024 20:36

MaGueule · 03/07/2024 11:53

We didn’t bother in 2019, but there should be more than a few Portillo moments worth getting up at 3:30 for this year. Several friends are doing the same, and I appear to be in a WhatsApp group called 3:30 am Massacre of the Innocents, which I presume is ironic.

Will we be watching Rory and Alistair on Channel 4? Or BBC coverage?

Anyone else planning an early wake up, and to get through Friday fuelled by coffee and hope for a brighter future?

I always stay up. I have some cold soft drinks and some crisps as a treat and I watch the whole thing from 10pm. DH doesn't always but he is tomorrow. We want a huge Labour majority.