Depressed lefties sign in here...

[WilfSell]

...on the grounds that if we assume there will be a Tory govt, then the crowing triumphalism of all the Chinless Wonders and Thrusting Monetarists and Nasty Racists who'll poke in here to crow and gloat, will somehow force a cosmic rift in the time-space continuum. And it will be like 1992 all over again but the other way round.

I fear the best we can hope for is a hung parliament.

I've suggested hemlock for the Election Night supper thread...

You know, it's not a secret ballot at all. Every time I vote I have the same issue and want to create a scene at the polling station. There is a number on your ballot paper and they write that number against your name on that sheet of paper.

I also seem to get more left wing by the hour Every time I meet a Tory, or spend time with FIL, or listen to some UKIP/BNP nobber, it just sends me more the other way.

I fear I shall be ranting in the corner before long.

Put me on the list. Bah!

I don't know if this link will work because it's a photo on facebook, but it's a picture of Dave's own polling station upon which someone has hoisted a huge poster saying:

"BRITONS! Know your place!"

then a pic of Dave pointing

then "Vote Eton. Vote Tory." at the bottom

linky

MarionCole isn't that to stop people voting twice/stealing your identity and voting in your stead (when the polling people take it) They know that you have voted but no for who.

And when you give the number again to the Party reps outside they then cross reference with their supporter lists so that you don't get phoned or knocked up repreatedly by party activists desperate to maximise their votes.

Tis practical.

Also Molesworth what's happened to Rosa? I miss her.

I'm usually excited when I vote, but today I could have cried.

Never mind, it's done now.

molesworth Love the FB photo!

I have just gone out to buy paper and lunch. Did not realise The Mirror breached copyright and put the Bulligdon Club photo on their cover. They have the balls.

I am so glad election day is one day only. I have been comfort-eating since eraly morning.

I'm sure that's the reason why they do it apples, but it still means that your vote can be traced. If someone wanted to, they could cross check all the ballot papers to the names to see who voted for whom.

What they wrote your number on the ballot paper?

No - the ballot paper is pre-numbered, they wrote that number on a sheet against my name.

Will definitely be here on the Lefties thread comrades. Won't be able to mingle with Tories tonight I don't think.

could i please inject some hope.

the electoral officers at my polling station said it was unbelievably busy for the time of day and that turn out looked very high this time.

every person i've asked has said they have voted labour or lib dem (most of them libdem, some v surprising people tbh).

huzzah!

I have just been for a wonder on the shop floor (work in a huge factory) and actually bumped into one of the union reps. Asked him if he had voted, he said that one of his old union mates is standing for Bristol for a party called the Trade Union Socialist Coalition, where their main point is to bring back widespread nationisation. Told him about my plans to sing socialist songs and he laughed.

Where I work has a ver militant union, the company was bought out by another one a year ago and they have brought in swinging cuts. Some people's salaries they have proposed to reduce by a third. Also a hell of a lot of manufacturing has been outsourced to low cost econimies (mind you that is UK manufacturing all over, I work in aerospace and that is supposed to be one of the UK's 'niche' industries. Trust me, it aint, it's all made in India, China and Brazil )

Sorry I seem to come on this thread and spout stream of conscioussness shite. Good job I am not a politician, I woulf bore everyone to death!

Somehow posted this on a different thread by accident.

I reckon there will be loads of people like me who weren't going to vote Labour, indeed loathe Labour, but did to keep the Tories out.

Barking is really positive.

Can we call the next thread lefties but leave out depressed? The idea of tories salivating over our dispondency is torture.

I cast one of my votes for that organisation.

MC The number they wrote against my name was the number on the voting card thing my unique reference number on the electoral register.

I am staying up...I shall be MNing, watching the tellybox, you tubing stiring songs and some robert downey jr for light relief until about 2.00am then linking Lenard Cohen songs until dawn/you beg me to stop.

Is there a crux contituency result that will indicate how well it's going that I should look out for does anyone know?

Just heard some bad news. Turn out here (Barking) is v low which is good news for BNP.

RedRedApples I have just read this article on the Guardian website about election night telly. Apparently the first "bell weather" constituency to look out for is Edgbaston in Birmingham.

Oh, OK. I've probably got it all wrong then. I always assumed (the cynic that I am) that something dodgy was going on.

Agree monkeysmama, we should get rid of the word 'depressed'. I'm actually quite optimistic. The way I see it, the tories should be way ahead in the polls and they're not. I don't think Cameron will be PM.

i'm with you all....depressed. stilll! its not over till its over and maybe Big Broon will surprise us all.

Marion Cameron (i.e. The Sun) will declare victory anyway and we'll be in for a nasty legal wrangle. Sorry, I do sound depressed.

I am actually an optimist. We might be in for a pleasant surprise tomorrow.

Voted LibDem tactically in national and labour in local. Very nervous about a Tory gov. to say the least, BUT the good sides are:

victory will be a poisoned chalise for Tories

labour Party re-think and hopefully a move in the right direction to the left, especially where the f%^&ing bankers are concerned.

More pople will join the Labour Party in opposition and help to re-make it.

The Tory right wing loons will feel safe to come out and make their nasty voices heard, then we'll all KNOW what they REALLY stand for.

Ditto when the hunting bill is introduced.

Our day will come again.

Let's not be depressed - it's like handing victory to the Tories and it's emphatically not theirs yet (if ever).

Trouble is, whoever gets in is going to have a really hard time of it.

I just trust Labour to go about implementing those "hard times" with compassion and sense.

The Tories, on the other hand, will be able to do a lot of damage in 5 years.

Still - if the Conservatives do win, their cuts will be so swingeing and dramatic, that they'll be voted out at the earliest opportunity and it will indeed give Labour time to regroup and be reinvigorated.

And it could still be closer than is being suggested.