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.

We'll have booze and a takeaway.

I'll plan to stay up all night and fail as always. I'll probably wake several times in the night and check the latest.

I've got the Friday off for sleep and news watching.

Is there any way of blagging into the announcement?
Our local candidate has a fairly good chance and I'd love to be there for the results but I suspect that's not possible.

I had a party. There were approx 40 people crammed into my small house at one point, the last of them toddled off home at around 8.30 am. There were a few people round my way who plainly had a lot of people round. And lots of fireworks were going off once it was a clear Labour win.

Then around 9, I set off to Devon for the weekend. Thankfully, someone else was driving.

Is there any way of blagging into the announcement?
Our local candidate has a fairly good chance and I'd love to be there for the results but I suspect that's not possible.

It's usually only election and party officials and observers, iirc. Each candidate will have their election agent there, they are permitted a certain number of observers, and it's usually their campaign team.

This.

We are planning to stay up - I want to see the back of the Tories, even though, like @Birmingbacon, I am not convinced that Labour will be a wonderful replacement. Don’t get me wrong - I want them to be, and I hope that they will be, everything we need them to be, but the older I get, the more cynical and pessimistic I get about all politicians.

Yes let’s just concentrate on getting rid of a government who sent the elderly straight from hospital wards back to care homes during the height of the pandemic thus causing the inevitable, awarded contracts to their mates supposedly for PPE that never existed but ensuring those mates increased their wealth by several millions, then partied whilst we were all separated from our families at Christmas. I’ve never known cunts like it. More fool you to anyone that fancies bending over for another shafting up the arse.

We will never know what Labour would have done though, do we? Last time I looked it was sending troops to die and be blown up in the Middle East! What a short memory you have.

I work in the Politics department of a Russell Group university. I'm toying with the idea of going to the all nighter with the staff (of whom at least one is a former MP) and any students we can convince to come as well. It offers the opportunity to get some real inside gossip and the chance of seeing some of our normally teetotal academics get a bit squiffy.

Due to give birth any day now so will have two reasons to stay up all night (or as much as I can manage)!

Hate Starmer but delighted at the prospect of getting the Tories out so will be a muted celebration, I guess.

Was just going to sit up and watch it as long as I feel like doing so!

Have booked the next morning off work though

Oh that was me when Obama won the US Presidency in 2008! My dd woke me up just in time for the speeches - happy days!

I would LOVE that! Go!

I care about it too much to stay up. Will keep away from it because my nerves won’t stand it. The next day hopefully will be a very good one (but I’m not thinking about it).

No short memories here.

I didn't agree with the war in Iraq and marched against it. But if the Tories had been in power at that point, they would have backed the US too, don't delude yourself.

TBF I don't think you can hold Starmer accountable for what Blair did over two decades ago.

If the exit poll is good news and doesn't predict a close result, then you can relax!

@IClaudine Also neither can you say what Starmer would have done when faced with NHS chiefs wanting to clear bed spaces. No one has any idea. In a crisis, all bets are off. So where would COVID patients go? Wards in the sky? Labour liked the idea of taking advice - so did the Tories over this!

DH stayed up until the small hours for that one but I went to bed because DD was only a very small toddler so I knew I would have to be up early.

I remember waking up briefly when he came to bed and he said Portillo had lost his seat and Martin Bell had taken Tatton. But then I went to sleep again and next morning thought I must have dreamt both those things!

In the past I have usually not stayed up because of work, but we are both retired now so... Hmmm! Must pace ourselves or we could get plastered. Snacks required for sure.

I genuinely have never heard of people staying up all night for this. I didn’t even realised people actually watched it, apart from maybe a select few. But it seems loads of you do. I will just see the results on my phone news notification thing when it’s announced.

Cheese, chutney, crackers and beer. Can't wait. Love an election!

I think it is going to be a lot closer than people think. I also think apathy might make it closer too. People are too cocky for a massive Labour win on here.

It may well be closer but every poll has Labour to win. Even ones run by ex-Tory party workers using very unusual methodologies.

They last time there were polls with one party having such a huge clear lead was in 1997.

The only year I stayed up for was 1997 when I was 22 and it felt like a really important part of my future. Might actually stay up slightly later than normal this year though!

Early night for me as I'll be getting up to train or work at 4.30am. Probably have a quick look at any results when I get up and again between clients

This is me. Celebrating what will hopefully be the end of the Tories rather than the new incomers.

Can't speak for anyone else, but I don't feel cocky at all. I would love a Labour landslide or just a solid progressive majority tbh, but despite the healthy poll lead, under FPTP it just doesn't necessarily translate into seats, especially after the boundary change gerrymandering. So it would definitely be stupid to count chickens imo.

Aside from on here, I think apathy is running lower than usual though. It'll be interesting to see what turnout is. My guess is that it will be healthy, except perhaps in areas where school holidays will already have begun and people are away.