Thursday 8th June 2017

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 8:25 pm

Tory government don't care about the safety of UK people
Tory government don't care if the electorate gets to vote

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 8:28 pm

To be fair,it took me some time to convince myself I was who I said I was before being allowed to vote.

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 8:28 pm

TobyLatimer wrote:[youtube]Z8fV0gFp1Pw[/youtube]

Toby - excellent, thanks.

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 8:30 pm

gilsey wrote:Clangers on the G live Blog!

We didn't want to be accused of not turning up

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 8:37 pm

I'm flagging. And I ain't talkin' semaphore or Eric Pickles.

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 8:41 pm

John Crace is good

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 8:42 pm

Absolute downpour here (for the nth time today). And they last about an hour or more.

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 8:43 pm

PorFavor wrote:Absolute downpour here (for the nth time today). And they last about an hour or more.

It's been gorgeous sunshine for hours - the evening is just lovely
earlier in the day it rained

Tizme · Post by **Tizme** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 9:14 pm

Greetings all,

Haven't had time to read through the comments and now I'm dashing off to the count. Just wanted to say hello and that I hope somehow things are better when we come out the other side of this election.

Bright blessings.

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 9:16 pm

Tizme wrote:Greetings all,

Haven't had time to read through the comments and now I'm dashing off to the count. Just wanted to say hello and that I hope somehow things are better when we come out the other side of this election.

Bright blessings.

Good to read you!

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 9:17 pm

I love you dearly
I'm going to rest now
Goodnight, everyone
cJA

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 9:42 pm

The downpour has stopped. But it's still raining.

Edited to add -

I'm just back from a lie-down. But I don't think I'll keep going for much longer tonight.

AngryAsWell · Post by **AngryAsWell** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 9:53 pm

Allan Skerratt‏
@AllanSkerratt
Following
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Newcastle u Lyme had turned away possibly OVER 1000 Keele university students.
They had the old voter lists

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This is a 650 marginal seat......
Same happening in other University towns, and lets not forget the 1500 lost postal votes in Plymouth.
By fair mean or foul .......

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 9:56 pm

AngryAsWell wrote:Allan Skerratt‏
@AllanSkerratt
Following
More
Newcastle u Lyme had turned away possibly OVER 1000 Keele university students.
They had the old voter lists

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This is a 650 marginal seat......
Same happening in other University towns, and lets not forget the 1500 lost postal votes in Plymouth.
By fair mean or foul .......

It does seem, if not deliberate, very "it's not important so we don't care and will be sloppy". It was hardly a secret that voter registration had undergone a fair bit of change. Criminal.

AngryAsWell · Post by **AngryAsWell** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:01 pm

"Dozens of young voters ALSO turned away in Nottingham - this is officially a case for the police."

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NonOxCol · Post by **NonOxCol** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:03 pm

Eat. Shit. Bitch.

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:03 pm

Sky TV's exit poll is predicting that the Conservatives will be the largest party. But - hung parliament. They are expecting it will be a "long night".

Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:06 pm

Holy sweet mother of god, would you look at that exit poll.

Another Chardonnay spritzer I think.

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:07 pm

God. How can I force myself to keep going?

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:08 pm

Long night? Night of the Long Knives, I hope.

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:08 pm

Still don't believe it. But I didn't believe the 2015 exit poll either (albeit for different reasons)

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:09 pm

Evening all.

Library this afternoon followed by a Scout Group Exec...and just managed to sit down with some food before the exit poll.

If that pans out, I will laugh so much...what a mistake to make in calling the election when there was no need.

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:14 pm

Oh dear, Amber Rudd might be in trouble.

SpinningHugo · Post by **SpinningHugo** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:15 pm

Really funny.

Leg agony.

Those SNP numbers are terrible.

Could Brexit still be derailed?

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:16 pm

Am having a bit of crisis.
If Labour are involved in Brexit (which can only be shit for the UK no matter how much less bad Labour makes it) Labour will get blamed for it because of the UK press being what it is.
Would value thoughts from someone more clued in than self.

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:16 pm

(also still reeling following my earlier lesson in democracy)

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:17 pm

James Brokenshire. Oh dear. Theresa May was motivated by giving people a choice!!

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:17 pm

SGO - hello!

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:17 pm

Mr Snozers, likewise!

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:17 pm

(and everyone else)

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:18 pm

tinyclanger2 wrote:Am having a bit of crisis.
If Labour are involved in Brexit (which can only be shit for the UK no matter how much less bad Labour makes it) Labour will get blamed for it because of the UK press being what it is.
Would value thoughts from someone more clued in than self.

Well . . . Oh, hang on. I don't think you were speaking to me!

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:20 pm

@Sky'sGoneOut

Hello!

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:21 pm

PorFavor wrote:
tinyclanger2 wrote:Am having a bit of crisis.
If Labour are involved in Brexit (which can only be shit for the UK no matter how much less bad Labour makes it) Labour will get blamed for it because of the UK press being what it is.
Would value thoughts from someone more clued in than self.
Well . . . Oh, hang on. I don't think you were speaking to me!

Believe me I was.

gilsey · Post by **gilsey** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:27 pm

tinyclanger2 wrote:Am having a bit of crisis.
If Labour are involved in Brexit (which can only be shit for the UK no matter how much less bad Labour makes it) Labour will get blamed for it because of the UK press being what it is.
Would value thoughts from someone more clued in than self.

Stop right there.
I want to put worries about brexit aside for the first time since the EUref, for at least 24 hours.

Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:29 pm

I had prepared myself for yet more misery and disappointment and now I don't know what to do with myself.

Even if this poll is way off it's nowhere near as bad as I was expecting and like a hell of a lot of people I'm going to have to eat my words when it comes to Jeremy Corbyn. If I was wearing a hat I'd take it off to the man, despite agreeing with his politics I simply didn't believe he was capable of dragging the Labour Party out of the quagmire it was in. And he's done it under constant fire from all sides. Good man.

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:36 pm

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A majority of people support the idea of a progressive alliance being forged at elections by parties who oppose the Conservatives, according to a poll conducted on Wednesday for The Independent.

ORB found that 58 per cent of the public agree that parties such as Labour, the Liberal Democrats and Greens should co-operate at elections to ensure more effective opposition to the Tories, while 42 per cent disagree.

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:38 pm

I would imagine EU leaders have just gone into smirk mode...

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:39 pm

(stopped emoticon)

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:42 pm

People across Britain buying every copy of The Sun and Daily Mail from local shops and binning them
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StephenDolan · Post by **StephenDolan** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:44 pm

*popcorn*

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:46 pm

Sky'sGoneOut wrote:I had prepared myself for yet more misery and disappointment and now I don't know what to do with myself.

Even if this poll is way off it's nowhere near as bad as I was expecting and like a hell of a lot of people I'm going to have to eat my words when it comes to Jeremy Corbyn. If I was wearing a hat I'd take it off to the man, despite agreeing with his politics I simply didn't believe he was capable of dragging the Labour Party out of the quagmire it was in. And he's done it under constant fire from all sides. Good man.

My sentiments exactly. Thanks!

discordantharmony · Post by **discordantharmony** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:52 pm

Hello and good evening. Well that's a turn up then. if it is a hung parliament The Telegraph helpfully pointing out that the incumbent Prime Minister stays in office until it is decided who will attempt to form a new government. Seem to remember same right wing papers effectively claiming Brown was squatting in No 10 in 2010........ Blah Blah Blah........

Temulkar · Post by **Temulkar** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:53 pm

So, unelectable... Discuss.

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:53 pm

Faisal Islam (@faisalislam)

"If exit poll is near right PM could be the shortest serving inhabitant of Downing St since Andrew Bonar Law in 1922" - @lewis_goodall
June 8, 2017

(Guardian)

Willow904 · Post by **Willow904** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:53 pm

Have just switched on TV coverage. Tentative fist pumps in order?!

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:54 pm

I fear for the leather trousers . . .

StephenDolan · Post by **StephenDolan** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:55 pm

Temulkar wrote:So, unelectable... Discuss.

UKIP are going to replace Labour in the north and the Lib Dems, being the only remain party will take a huge chunk out of Labour. Labour will get low twenties.

Or something.

Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 10:58 pm

PorFavor wrote:I fear for the leather trousers . . .

I once split mine right down the arse at a gig.

This would be way more embarrassing.

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 11:01 pm

Britain Elects @britainelects
Indications Tory vote holding up in Sunderland South, though with little increase; UKIP vote gone.

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Thu 08 Jun, 2017 11:01 pm

Labour hold Newcastle Central.

(Beating Sunderland in the declaration race.)