Thread 53 Sunak: Superminority!

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https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/election?iso=20240502T00&p0=136&msg=UK+general+election&font=sanserif

@tobee

No need to be sorry. I was voting tactically to boot my SNP mp out. I stood at the booth for ages dithering between voting labour and voting tactically before I put my cross on the slip.

Btw It's very horrible weather here in Glasgowshire. Cold, windy and lashing with rain. I've turned the heating on 😩

After 2pm so John Curtice will have a good idea of the result already.

Did anyone ever ?

I've bought myself some all butter scones that I intend to have with some clotted cream and blackcurrant jam this evening.

My parents and DH have been to vote this afternoon, polling station was busy apparently, mum and dad had to queue for a bit.

Ah, the smell of desperation

If I lived near you, I'd be around to grab some cakes

only the first time i encountered that poster, before i realised i'd have the same end result smacking my head repeatedly into a brick wall.

If you're in the constituency I think you're in @mibbelucieachwell , the SNP lost two voters last year with both my dad and his neighbour dying (my dad unexpectedly even though he was 87 , his neighbour earlier in the year from an aggressive and nasty form of MND ).

I suspect that the LibDem candidate will win as it was so close last time.

Can we have a thread title in his honour?
Sunak : on his majesty's secret Curtice.

That sounds amazing. Blackcurrant jam with scones is the business. None of this strawberry nonsense 🍓😍

Well there's been a lot of postal votes (except for those disenfranchised by papers not arriving in post esp on Scotland) so he might have a good idea already?

Thought I would share the cross stitch kit DS bought me for Christmas. Finished just in time (ignore my mistakes!)

I like it!

What time shall we start the GE Night thread?

When the exit poll’s announced at ten?

That's brilliant.

@medianewbie - i didn't think that they are allowed to count or even look at postal votes until polls close at 10pm.

Not sure if they're still allowed to open the envelopes - but if they are, they have to stay face down. I'll need to go off and check.

I have a vague recollection of of Ruth Davidson getting into trouble one election for implying that she knew what the postal votes were.

@BIossomtoes I replied once and greeted with a volley of irrelevant C and P articles I am now ignoring.

Tone deaf to keep going on a thread where people have shared so many distressing personal experiences.

I won't be home until 10.30pm :(

Ugh. I'm like an ill sitting hen! 😬🐔 I can't settle at all

Loving the dogs at polling stations pics 📸 🐶

I did a postal votes this year as I have a young one I couldn't guarantee being able to get to the station and i couldn't risk not getting my vote. But I explained it to them and why and why mummy wanted them to go to school under labour and we took it to the post box and she posted it for me 😆
@Evenstar those little rosettes on your doggy have made my day.

I know. I’ve cried three times reading that thread. I’m ignoring too.

"Well there's been a lot of postal votes (except for those disenfranchised by papers not arriving in post esp on Scotland) so he might have a good idea already?"

Yes and they get data from multiple sources throughout the day to model.

I'm sure I've read that morning voters lean Conservative, evening Labour/left. Can't find it now.

Clip of Curtice confirming when he usually knows the result.
x.com/ukandeu/status/1783888878039912589?s=46&t=Uw4lJNwxFZFnX0Xs3doHYg

Wasn't that Laura Kuenssberg? Or maybe both

I don't think they can look but the numbers can reveal trends surely.

I've checked: the postal votes are verified but not counted until the rest of the count is started. They have to be stored securely until that time.

This screenshot from Full Fact is the clearest summary.

I don't think they can look but the numbers can reveal trends surely.

What trends would they reveal other than the overall numbers of postal votes that have been returned?