Westministenders: The Election Car Crash

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I was thinking about how I could sum up the general election campaign and well. This said it all.

I have it better clearly rtb!

My social media seems to be full of Labour voters. The last few weeks have brought out much Corbyn love. I seem to be one of very few Lib Dem voters.

Very little mention of Brexit. It's all NHS and schools.

Same here, Summer. I think it's Brexit fatigue which both major parties have capitalised on by offering manifestos taking zero account of Brexit impact. So people are hoping that because the sky didn't fall in immediately, and the main parties are acting like there will be no consequences, that maybe it will all turn out fine.

Then instead of worrying and thinking hard about these tediously difficult issues, they can just simply click their heels together and wish for red or blue unicorns.

The worst thing is May's face is possibly better than Farron's at the moment. Someone told me he looked like he belonged in Wallace and Gromit and now I can't unsee it!

If Jo Cox were still alive, I think Labour would still have been remain. I don't underestimate the effect of right wing terrorists on democracy, and particularly on Labour MPs.

Blimey
Dh has voted labour!
(Up to 2010 was a tory)
He didn't want to vote for any of them so "gave" his vote to ds1 (13)
😁✊

He does! Now I too will never unsee that. Although it's not a bad association really.

I remember you saying that Arron Banks looked as though his head was on skew-whiff and now I haven't unseen that since.

Remember how Brexit was socking it to the global elites and bankers? Well...

Surprise guest at the #globalinvestmentforum: Nigel farage, talking about today's election in the U.K., let's hear what he has to say hehehe

politicalscrapbook.net/2017/06/farage-spotted-jetting-out-of-the-country-on-day-of-brexit-election/#more-64471

face palm

Well that's one more for the list of Brexit bullshit Ghost.

Anna Piela has written in to say that she was initially refused her vote today as a ‘category G’ EU citizen, even though she is a naturalised British citizen ( she is a dual citizen, also with Polish citizenship) and registered to vote

I approached the table, gave my address, and was then told that I was ‘Category G’ (funny, I felt more like ‘Category B’ at that point), meaning I was ineligible to vote in this election as a Polish citizen. I felt everybody’s eyes on me. Do they think I am a fraud? I started to feel hot and embarassed.

She said a lady at the polling station called a number for her after Piela had called the Leeds Electoral Commission to no avail.

She got put through and was told that I was ineligible to vote as a Polish citizen. Well, wasn’t I glad to whip out my British passport and wave it in her face. And then whoever was at the end of the line started crumbling. Oh, it’s a clerical error they say. She is indeed a UK citizen. So what do I do? asked the nice lady. ‘Give her a ballot and mark a clerical error in your register’ they said

Voting problems for people with foreign names.

Another(Guardian) reader has written in about voting problems. Mary Hart said:

Both my son and my husband (who prefer not to be named) were unable to vote today as overseas voters who registered before the deadline.

Many long queues pics of students waiting to vote:

www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2017/jun/08/general-election-2017-uk-polling-day-live?page=with:block-59394fe3e4b00493c827a9f9#block-59394fe3e4b00493c827a9f9

Ross Kempsell‏*@rosskempsell*
1/ Absolute polling day scenes earlier at Tyssen Community Primary School polling station in Stoke Newington...
2 / I witnessed posters in the polling station window featuring hammers and sickles, drawn by school kids, reading: "the kids aren't happy"
3 / "They want CHANGE! Vote with your heart, not by what the papers tell you.” Police were on scene when I arrived, checking electoral law
4 / A man who identified himself as the school site manager refuse to take down the posters when asked by polling station volunteers
5 / the school site manager then threatened to close the polling station rather than remove the hammer and sickle posters
6 / the police brokered a compromise whereby another school staff member and site manager agreed to cover up the posters with brown paper
7 / but they then claimed they had no paper in the school to cover the posters. Polling station staff then covered them with official signs
8 / the police and polling staff throughout attempted to reach a compromise. The school staff were intent on displaying the posters.
I understand that candidates are aware of this incident and it has tonight been reported to the Electoral Commission.
PS I should also report that I heard school staff suggesting that the vote should take place on the street rather than take the posters down

Am an overseas voter too and after registering online received notification by email that they had received my application then a letter in the post saying they had no record of me and I had to provide further identity. Husband and son the same. We voted by proxy and received another letter confirming who the proxy was. (His name was spelt differently on all documents.) When he turned up this morning, he was told that all three of us had 'already voted' but he persisted and it was fine. He thinks it was someone simply not reading their list properly rather than anything more suspicious. The FB friends turned down also persisted and got a vote. But if none of us were as determined I wonder what would have happened.

Can I delurk for a moment to say I've been following this thread for aaaaages and it's bloody brilliant and very well informed, thank you!

Is there anyone else who hasn't voted yet?

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/dont-fall-rumour-general-election-10585103

Fake accounts trying to discourage people from voting by suggesting there has been violence at polling stations.

DH just got home so we'll be off to the polls together in a minute.

Hmm, Red sounds like the social media brown shirts are out then.

Just voted Lib Dem

Just got back from voting Labour. Lots of people - lots of families with young DCs which I love to see. We always took ours and I remember being taken by my Dad aged 6 (Harold Wilson 1969 - I'll always remember him explaining it to me with the words 'Labour are for the working man, the Tories are for the rich').

We live 100 yards from the polling station and DDog is having a field day on the back of the sofa, looking out of the window and barking his head off at all the dogs going to vote with their owners,

There have been reports of students from Keele University being turned away at polling stations despite being eligible to vote. The reported problem is in the constituency of Newcastle-under-Lyme where Labour won by just 650 votes from the Conservatives at the last election in 2015 and where Ukip is not standing this time

Rhys ¯\(ツ)/¯ @RhysHansard
70 young people turned away from keele polling station by 1pm today - why? #GeneralElection17

Andrew Niblett‏ @andnib 8m8 minutes ago
Replying to @andnib @BBCNews
I think we're looking at about 1000 students now! Not sure of the facts but alot of my friends are affected.

www.independent.co.uk/News/uk/politics/election-2017-marginal-seats-voters-unable-vote-admin-errors-a7779981.html
Election 2017: Admin errors deny dozens of voters chance to cast ballots in marginal seat
Paul Farrelly, the Labour candidate for Newcastle-under-Lyme, says he plansto refer the council to the Electoral Commission

So Plymouth has had problems with postal votes and now this.

And in Copeland this has been reported to the police by Labour.