Westminstenders: Election Special

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Spreadsheet of declaration times from 2017 by constituency

sluggerotoole.com/2019/12/10/an-hour-by-hour-guide-to-election-night/
Key constituencies by declaration time to help you understand what might be going on

yougov.co.uk/uk-general-election-2019/
YouGov MRP

www.electionpolling.co.uk/battleground
List of seats by marginality and party targeting them

Our little village polling station was really busy - everyone was saying they'd never known it like that before. Felt a lot happier voting tactically as I finally managed to get someone on SwapMyVote who's now going to vote Labour in a Labour-Tory marginal in return for my vote for the LDs.

A happy thought I just had...When he wears his natty scarves Jeremy Corbyn reminds me of Dr Who a bit!

I hope he's got his sonic screwdriver with him - he's going to need it to get into Number 10!

Quiet in mine straight after the school run with the school next door. Raining buckets though.

They were going to vote LD, but I sent them a tactical voting site (thanks to this thread) and they held their noses, ignored their churning stomachs and voted Labour.

Even at this late stage, I still struggle to understand the asymmetry in peoples reported views of the political spectrum. Very few governments ever get to implement even half their manifesto in their time in power - and that is with a big majority. And yet peoples excuse for swerving Labour could be equally applied to the Tories, and yet never is. Or at least never reported on.

It's akin to the hysteria over drugs, whilst not only ignoring but embracing alcohol and tobacco ...

Poll Clerk here, we have been super busy, significantly more than usual. Nice to see lots of young people voting, but lots of older people too, same here about a later result because of the turnout.

I feel sick. Not optimistic.

I think I'm going to go to bed at 9.30 tonight and never look at the news again.

Anxious PMK here. My postal vote went in a week ago, so will have to rely on DH for the Polling Station activity report. He's due home 8ish and will go and vote then. Fairly safe Labour seat here, with LibDems likely to be second. Only campaign material delivered today was approaching paper mache from the LibDems. Can't shake a feeling of impending doom coupled with occasional moments of wild optimism. That, together with comfort eating, is a sure recipe for an uneasy stomach.

I must be in a bubble. On my FB I have really only seen people supporting Labour . Or undecided.

A true blue was posting earlier how undecided he was. He went Red. He won't get a Labour MP so he could use his vote in this way but I was amazed.

I'm in a total bubble judging by my Facebook, Random! I hadn't really noticed it before, but this election has had almost everyone rallying against the Tories.

Seems Johnson has already claimed victory and made some changes at no. 10.

Voted at 3:30. No queue but the people manning the polling station said it had been really busy all day and the turnout was already higher than it had been for the Euros (around 50 percent so far).

Can't shake a feeling of impending doom coupled with occasional moments of wild optimism.

“All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was."
"No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.”

(Early) evening all. Our polling station had about 12 people in it at 10.15 - usually its only me and the DD(s). Unfortunately, DH, DD1 and I were probably the only under 60s and this is a very Leave area. DD2 is going later so will get her update I hope. Not optimistic about tonight, will try and watch the exit polls and then go to bed and probs wake up about 3am. Weather is absolutely disgusting here.

Plumbing new depths:

www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/12/uk-news-push-alerts-negative-labour-positive-tories

Is it even possible to hold a fair election any more?

I have one staunch Tory facebook friend but he is also a Remainer. Not t a peep from him this election. Lots of lovely shots of the Yorkshire dales.

Lol at DGR’s photoshopped door.

I paddled through mega-puddles in the local polling station’s yard to vote. I asked if it had been busy. The guy said “steady” which was a bit of a damp squib. I voted for the current Labour MP, though I had been vacillating about spoiling my ballot for the last few weeks. I figured that, being in a marginal, I had to vote ‘least worst’ but I’m not wild about a(n unlikely) Labour majority. Our constituency MP is sound - well-liked, principled and effective, but the lurch to the left, oh-Jeremy-Corbin cult of personality, not listening to women and Momentum stranglehold is a major concern for me.

Student DS was saying last night that there is a lot of enthusiasm for Corbyn among his friends. They love him and find him charismatic apparently.

Momentum stranglehold

Think you should believe less of what you hear in the MSM

Wow. I’m at home with poorly child. Just had a Labour canvasser knock to check DH is going to vote. He took his polling card so he can vote on the way back from work.

"They love him and find him charismatic apparently."

Sheesh, I think that's a bit of a stretch, despite his doubtlessly numerous other qualities.

Higher turnout than the Euros is a low bar of limbo-dancing proportions.

Nobody Knows Anything.

I have just returned from two hours of “telling” for the LDs down here in brexitland. I had some very moving conversations with voters. LDs only party telling at this particular polling station. Cons will win, but I feel it is important to establish a presence, and that there are other choices. As I said to a few people today: “ The arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice” Martin Luther King Jr.

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here you all are!

Shell put my heartwarming video here too :

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/tv/bbc-breakfast-viewers-tears-oldham-17405352

I’m just quoting my DS Hasenstein, not sure I get it myself.