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

DS1 has confirmed he trudged to polling station in marginal Lincoln , got wet through and 'did his duty'

Am proud of him!

I have pointlessly voted as ever in my thumping Tory majority seat.

The polling station was busy , busier than I have seen it. But there weren't many names crossed though on the lady's sheet.

Hmm why do my pics not post?

Anyway upshot is boris has just emailed to tell me that Labour turnout is worryingly high. I know almost certainly a preplanned drop to get the vote out but it cheered me anyway.

"They love him and find him charismatic apparently."

He listens to them. It really is that simple. Worked for Farage, too.

Idle thoughts ...

If I were a Tory strategist (there isn't enough money in the world) then I would have set a secondary tactic running alongside the main thrust to win, to try to discredit the result if the Tories lost. Meaning that there would always be a card to play that the election was "stolen" with the aim of whipping the plebs public into riots on streets mode as a "we told you it would be chaos if Labour won" byline for the ever-hungry-for-Tory-cock MSM.

(Just in case anyone thought the real DGR had been replaced by a more cuddly and less cynical version for Christmas )

Got chatting to an anaesthetist earlier.
When I told him where I lived he commiserated and said "you poor bugger!"
No chance of unseating the ERG fuckwit but I hope his majority is dented.

Oh DG
Thank god...
You're back!

A very late placemark from an assiduous lurker. Thank you all for these threads. I am in a marginal seat - might go from Tory to Labour. Will stay up as late as I can.

Spoke to very affluent mum at school gates (house worth over million).

She's still agonising over who to vote for.

Would almost certainly be natural Tory under normal conditions. Doesn't like Johnson.

Tax was her worry.

I've only got port and mead in the cupboard...

I've got a rather nice rum based liquor from aldi small batch series. It's honey, fig and cinnamon.

Strictly for medicinal purposes. Its very soothing on the throat.

saw this yesterday . we need a chuckle .
It is totally grim weather outside .
DD1 is voting later , on the way to gym .
Proud of her though - she told me she stopped a fellow worker trying to bully another into voting Tory due to 'immigration' and 'terrorists' . She told her we were all allowed our own opinions , but to let her make her own mind up .

Bozo didn't turn up to the hustings in Uxbridge and didn't vote there. If he won't vote for Boris Johnson why should anybody else be expected to?

I hope he loses his seat. He deserves to for the utter contempt he has displayed to his constituents.

If he loses his seat, would go a long to restoring my faith that not everyone wants a PM who hides in a fridge.
Just voted, tellers said it’s been very busy all day I’m in a safe labour seat in London took them some sweets which they were very appreciative of.

BJ doesn't vote in Uxbridge because he doesn't live there.

Bear in mind that turnout is a percentage of those on the electoral roll, and plenty aren't, especially the young, the poor and the socially marginal.

MPs are elected to represent their constituents, all of them, not just the ones who voted for them, not just the ones who voted, not even the ones on the roll, but the entire population. It is for this reason that the Tory gerrymander in the guise of 'equal' constitiencies when the rates of voter registration are far from equal, is such a con job.

So nervous. I’m going to be sleeping on the sofa to watch the results.
Would be delighted if Boris lost his seat. Relying on voters of Uxbridge.

Why people stay up with the TV is a mystery to me. There is Radio.

Our only radio is on the TV 😂

I suppose I could get it on my phone. I'd have to wear headphones though.

My DCs and their friends have all voted Labour, even DD2's Tory boyfriend, who said he won't support a party with Johnson at the helm. Labour only need to gain about 2400 votes in their constituency so fingers crossed.

So proud of my DM. She’s 74, never voted anything but Tory her entire life. She just told me she voted green today.

Apparently:

Canterbury City Council
51 mins ·

Update 4.25pm: nobody is queuing in the rain at the university now. All voters are inside. In the next hour, a bigger room will become available, which will allow us to get through the queue quicker. Thanks for your patience.

We are aware there are long queues of people trying to vote at the University of Kent and Church Street St Paul's in Canterbury this afternoon because of sheer numbers.

We have drafted in extra staff to help out and will send more as soon as we can.

We are also trying to secure a bigger room at the University of Kent to save people from standing in the rain.

Reports that the Tories are worried that Labour turnout is high and that 300,000 people have checked a voting site today which tells them who to vote for tactically to get the Tories out. It's the hope that bloody kills you.

Urgh. This is worse than referendum night. Feels like we’re circling the plughole & we have one shot at swerving it.

The Tories appear to have been ejected from my Facebook ads. It's all Labour Labour Labour Vote tactically Labour.