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.

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Electoral Calculus has taken the boundary changes into account and is still predicting a Labour majority.

Personally, I am pretty confident that bar some major unexpected event between now and election day there will be a Labour government on July 5th.

I do think there will be a bigger turnout of young voters than expected this year. Talking to DD, it'll be her first time voting and she said all her friends will be using their vote. They're seeing their futures being fucked over in every way possible.

Ooh I need to get planning! Have told my CLP I’m taking the day off and can help give lifts/teller duties/count observation etc but DP is up for an all nighter & champers on ice - I’m usually a skeptic over polls and would rather row back on the optimism until we’ve actually won….definitely taking Friday off though. I usually get tired about 1am and go to bed. The last two elections (plus 2019 and Brexit) DP came to bed at 6am practically in tears and I remember thinking WTF?!

I don't think cocky, nor massive, just hopeful for a decent working majority.

Will doze on the sofa and eat ice cream and snacks all night. I'm not a big alcohol person but if I weren't pregnant I'd be making dirty cocktails.
Alas I'll have to decide if I can be bothered to make ice cream milkshakes with no alcohol or I'll just eat ice cream solid with toppings (most likely - no booze no point in blending).

This - I think the Tories have really managed to improve political engagement among the young. All the ones I know are angry.

As I'm no longer eligible to vote, having voted in every election since I was 18, I will be doing something else, pottering in the garden, reading, watching a film, marking, lesson planning....

Why are you no longer eligible?

If the Tories get chucked out I think I’ll cry in relief, literally for ages.

Because I don't have a driving licence or a passport, and the electoral commission have seen fit to take away centuries of a brits right to turn up and vote without a photo ID. So sadly not voting this time.

You can get free voting id online.

Why not get a postal vote, @PropertyManager?

You can get free ID. This is exactly what the Tories want to happen. Don't give them the satisfaction

@PropertyManager Please do apply for free photo ID certificate or a postal vote. https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-photo-id-voter-authority-certificate

Don't lose your right to vote

Yes @PropertyManager you don't need to lose your vote!

Plus voter ID was a Tory policy was it not? I don't think it was the Electoral Commission's decision to introduce it?

I think, if I'm not mistaken it was king toff himself, Mr Reese Mogg

Dinner,walk the dog,bath and bed before half nine.

Friday's usually my busiest day.

We always have chicken sandwiches on election nights. And stay up. I love an election!

I'd like to join the party. I've never stayed up all night before. With the 1997 election I got to work, in a private house and the dad had stayed up all night and was singing The Red Flag very loudly 😂

When we get the exit poll, at around 10pm

The days when they were hopelessly inaccurate are long gone, and unless it's a very small majority or hung parliament - both pretty unlikely - we'll have our answer

I've booked the next day off work. Adult DC are coming home especially to party! I will probably get some snacks in and keep the coffee going all night. If I drink, I'll be asleep and miss all the fun, although I might have a glass of fizz to celebrate a few Portillo moments,

I was 17 in 1997 - so the huge night there was lost on me.

I was out of the country in 2010 and missed the switch back to blue.

My only consolation was that I found myself at the Cincinnati Democrats party the night Obama got in - the mayor thanked me for coming all the way from the UK for it. I hadn't. I was working and just happened to be in town and got chatting to some guys who invited me along. But it was a great night!

Anyway, on July 4th I'll be stopping up as long as possible - perhaps in the little lounge with the comfy reclining chairs so I can snooze a bit, wake a bit etc. I have the day off the following day and wonder how many people booked that Friday off as soon as they heard the date (I did).

I'll be hoping for 1997 v2, but will settle for any degree of Red majority.

Thinking the result of the election will change anything, and enjoying watching the election results come in, are two completely different things.

You can definitely get a postal vote without a passport or driving licence. I registered my elderly mum this evening and they only needed her National Insurance number.

Agree with others, don't lose your right to vote!