To ask your election night plans (if any)

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Thinking of a chippy tea with some fruit ciders, switching to wine as the night goes on. I’ll be parked in front of the TV until I fall asleep, probably. DP will join but will go to bed normal time he says.

I will hopefully stay awake all night as absolutely love election night.
I don't drink alcohol normally but will buy a a nice bottle of wine just in case I feel like celebrating . Oh and a bag of cheese and onion crisps.

Not thought about it. At work.the nxt day and can't book it off. Celebratory tea on Friday?

I’ll go to bed as normal and next day will wake up to discover which party has won.

It will make no difference anyway because they’re all slightly different versions of each other and priority is always to look after themselves and their rich cronies.

Is this a thing? Some party or something?

There's a General Election on July 4th and several parties will be standing for election in the various constituencies as well as independent candidates, @tennesseewhiskey1 .

If you're in the UK you'll likely be hearing from some of them soon, although I haven't had any leaflets or anything yet

I have Fridays off, and DH happens to be off work too on that Friday, so we're planning on pulling an all-nighter. Quite fancy a cheeseboard, some nice crisps, and of course a few wines. I will whoop the loudest when the exit poll declares a Labour victory.

In 1997 it ran from 10pm on polling day to 12.00pm day after. I'm planning on watching from exit poll on election night to maybe 5.00am if I'm still awake, then having a few hours sleep & catching up on the news. I know Labour were at Festival Hall overnight & Tony Blair arrived around 4.30am after flying back from his constituency.

I will be immensely grateful to them immediately just for getting rid of the Tories. I use to occasionally vote Tory, but my utter contempt for what the party has become knows no bounds.

I'm vote counting. Quite looking forward to it

Is wish people would stop saying this nonsense. It's just lazy, repeating what other people say without thinking it through.
THEY ARE NOT ALL THE SAME.
Things do change after elections, you might not like what happens if your party doesn't win.

Bubbly and a cheeseboard.

I can't bloody wait.

It's the people on the coalface so to speak I will genuinely feel a sense of enormous relief for.

Thank you for staying the course despite everything these self serving idiots have done.

Agreed ! 2 cheeks of the same arse.
ive applied to working at polling station so if I do that il come home, eat and go to bed. Might check my phone thru the night while up with baby and toddler but I won’t be staying up all night. I need every scrap of sleep I can get x

Dh will be out at football and then probably pub afterwards getting home at around about the time as the exit poll.
I will be having a cheeseboard and probably a couple of glasses of wine and go to bed at midnight, put the telly on there and watch until I nod off. I’m usually shattered on post election day as I go to sleep about 4am and my eyes ping open at 6!
Contemplated booking a days leave BUT it’s a bit of a waste of AL as I’ll probably not sleep but be too tired to make the most of the day off And also I work for a union so it will be a brilliant day which we have waited for for a long time!

Ds is hoping to wangle a ticket for the count as he is involved with the Green Party, he may end up standing in our ward as a candidate if they can't find a volunteer.

Better than the lose and lose some more that we've had for the last 14 shitty yearsm

Not really, we weren’t.

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I'm too excited to sleep already. By election night I will be completely stupid with tiredness and will sleep soundly all night. Hoping very much to wake up to very very good news at about 6am. Eeek.

I'll be watching fireworks in the US, and since it's a Thursday, I'll probably have Friday off, so I'll follow the updates all day.

Will be glad to see the back of the Tories for a few years but not overly optimistic about Starmer. He seems more intent on opposing the values of half his own party and supporters than he is opposing the values of the Tories:

tuition fee pledge in the bin
higher tax rate pledge in the bin
weak on reducing inequality
rowed back on renationalising certain industries
weak on Israel/Palestine

Dont get me wrong it will be a slight improvement on the Tories and he will ptobabky be the best PM since Blair. But he’s not going to change Britain, he’s not going to reduce inequality. He will just manage things better but the Tories will in a decade or so find the vast majority of stuff fundamentally unchanged, and will easily get back to wrecking stuff for the majority. Progress?

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good idea!

School night.
I'd go to bed praying for change.

We are going to watch, then a bit of sleep and then watch. No alcohol as it makes me sleep. Tea and biscuits, and then champagne on Friday evening.
We are in a safe Labour seat, I’m sure it will stay the same. There are a few Tory seats near by which I hope will change the colour.

I'm fed up of this election already with all the preaching from people to others who or who not to vote for. It's all very ugly. I certainly won't be staying up watching to see which multitude of poor options gets voted in.