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AnatolyKasparov wrote:Labour have edged ahead in "updated" ICM poll - Lab 35 Con 34 UKIP 11 LibDem 9 Green 4.

pk1 wrote:I voted weeks ago and it's really strange watching all the excited declarations by those that have just voted.

Lots of reports of people finding themselves unable to vote because they weren't registered correctly. Hackney seems to be reporting figures into the hundreds & I cannot begin to imagine what the overall total might be by the day's end.

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:I think the weather is definitely on Labour's side, with a dry, partly sunny evening forecast across the North and London, some rain in the areas in-between

ravengirl 8m ago

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Populus final poll has labour in lead by one. But i've just noticed this tweet from Guardian's Tom Clark referring to latst icm pole
"ICM detail 2: In marginal battlegrounds where Con were 2% ahead in 2010, Lab has 11% lead today. Sub-samples, for sure, but not tiny ones"

MikaJJ 11m ago
Apparently SNP thugs are already intimidating voters in Glasgow. Women and the elderly in particular are being targeted on the streets as they are make their way to the polling stations. An elderly gentleman in East Glasgow with a Labour sticker in his window had his window smashed by SNP supporters, while known Labour and Lib Dem supporters are having their path to the polling station blocked, while police stand by and do nothing.

Absolutely disgraceful, the violent bullying tactics of the SNP.

Britain Elects ‏@britainelects 6m6 minutes ago
We've just received word that ballot papers for the Darlington constituency have omitted one or more the parliamentary candidates.

rebeccariots2 wrote:... she was upset and protested she had always voted here. To no avail. All they could advise her to do was ring up Pembrokeshire County Council and ask them to check and see if she was 'properly' registered to vote. She left still upset.

I imagine that scene might be played out rather a lot today. The letters sent out re the new voter registration were anything but clear. I rang PCC twice to make absolutely sure we were both registered to vote. Helpful isn't the word I'd apply to the department dealing with this.

Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB · 3m 3 minutes ago
If final polls in right then hard to see how CON wins most seats. At GE10 CON led LAB by 11.4% in England where today ICM has no CON lead

utopiandreams wrote:

rebeccariots2 wrote:... she was upset and protested she had always voted here. To no avail. All they could advise her to do was ring up Pembrokeshire County Council and ask them to check and see if she was 'properly' registered to vote. She left still upset.

I imagine that scene might be played out rather a lot today. The letters sent out re the new voter registration were anything but clear. I rang PCC twice to make absolutely sure we were both registered to vote. Helpful isn't the word I'd apply to the department dealing with this.

Possibly so, rebecca, but hopefully there's another explanation. In my case my voting venue is not what it has always been at this address and I'd be surprised if the original one is not being used. I may drive by later and have a look. It could be changes of demographics.

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David Clark ‏@David_K_Clark 15m15 minutes ago

For Cameron to have a realistic chance of staying on as PM, every one of the final 11 polls would need to be wrong.

rebeccariots2 wrote:

utopiandreams wrote:

rebeccariots2 wrote:... she was upset and protested she had always voted here. To no avail. All they could advise her to do was ring up Pembrokeshire County Council and ask them to check and see if she was 'properly' registered to vote. She left still upset.

I imagine that scene might be played out rather a lot today. The letters sent out re the new voter registration were anything but clear. I rang PCC twice to make absolutely sure we were both registered to vote. Helpful isn't the word I'd apply to the department dealing with this.

Possibly so, rebecca, but hopefully there's another explanation. In my case my voting venue is not what it has always been at this address and I'd be surprised if the original one is not being used. I may drive by later and have a look. It could be changes of demographics.

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This isn't a densely populated area though, ud. We come to the same polling station from miles and miles around - so very unlikely that her name is down at a different venue. She had walked to the polling station too - I saw her walking back along the High Street as I drove away.

Willow904 wrote:Anyone got anything on voting being postponed in Darlington because candidate missed on ballot paper?

What kind of omnishambles election is this?

Willow904 wrote:Anyone got anything on voting being postponed in Darlington because candidate missed on ballot paper?

What kind of omnishambles election is this?

AnatolyKasparov wrote:

Willow904 wrote:Anyone got anything on voting being postponed in Darlington because candidate missed on ballot paper?

What kind of omnishambles election is this?

Lots of confused reports on this, but what seems to have happened is that one polling station got ballot papers that were meant for the neighbouring Sedgefield constituency.

If that is actually what it is, I doubt the election will be cancelled - but it is still a huge cock up

A spokesperson for Darlington Borough Council said that voting in the general and local elections was continuing as normal in Darlington but that the name of one candidate, David Hodgson (UKIP) had been missed off ballot papers issued to one polling station in the borough. Approximately 89 ballot papers (0.1% of the total number of ballot papers printed) had been issued, but as soon as the issue was identified, corrected ballot papers were issued to the polling station concerned.

Caitlin Moran ‏@caitlinmoran 2h2 hours ago
Is anyone having problems voting in Hackney? A lot of friends reporting they didn’t get polling cards ...

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@caitlinmoran It's the postal votes they failed to send out. 3,000 of them! We covered this last night on @LBC. A scandal.

Owen Jones @OwenJones84 · 32m 32 minutes ago
The finally polls show a shift to Labour. They may be wrong. But imagine the scenes of panic in Tory HQ right now. And savour it.

Kerry McCarthy ‏@KerryMP 3m3 minutes ago
Someone has left roses by Tony Benn on my office wall. @hilarybennmp

rebeccariots2 wrote:Well if this comment BTL on G politics blog is correct ... it's very cheering.

ravengirl 8m ago

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Populus final poll has labour in lead by one. But i've just noticed this tweet from Guardian's Tom Clark referring to latst icm pole
"ICM detail 2: In marginal battlegrounds where Con were 2% ahead in 2010, Lab has 11% lead today. Sub-samples, for sure, but not tiny ones"

RobertSnozers wrote:I admit I am rather enjoying the lack of political coverage on the BBC today. Well, UK politics. Just listening to a debate on WatO about whether the Boston bomber should face the death penalty. I have long hoped that the US would join the ranks of civilised countries in my lifetime and abolish the death penalty. Based on the hysterical pro-death nonsense I've just heard, I don't hold out much hope.

rebeccariots2 wrote:

Roses By Tony Benn.jpg

Kerry McCarthy ‏@KerryMP 3m3 minutes ago
Someone has left roses by Tony Benn on my office wall. @hilarybennmp

Brought a lump to my throat.

citizenJA wrote:

rebeccariots2 wrote:

Roses By Tony Benn.jpg

Kerry McCarthy ‏@KerryMP 3m3 minutes ago
Someone has left roses by Tony Benn on my office wall. @hilarybennmp

Brought a lump to my throat.

I just burst out into tears.

Hilary Benn ‏@hilarybennmp 55s55 seconds ago
Hilary Benn retweeted Kerry McCarthy
Thank you to whoever put the lovely flowers there. We miss him.

RobertSnozers wrote:

AnatolyKasparov wrote:

RobertSnozers wrote:I admit I am rather enjoying the lack of political coverage on the BBC today. Well, UK politics. Just listening to a debate on WatO about whether the Boston bomber should face the death penalty. I have long hoped that the US would join the ranks of civilised countries in my lifetime and abolish the death penalty. Based on the hysterical pro-death nonsense I've just heard, I don't hold out much hope.

Yes, when even somebody as basically enlightened as Obama supports it (albeit only for "heinous" crimes or something like that) sanity is still some way off I fear

Anyway, off to do some election stuff soon

I suppose until very recently a majority of the UK population supported it - it just happened that we had braver and more principled politicians. A good argument in favour of representative democracy

RobertSnozers wrote:@ohso - thanks for the report. You're doing a sterling job and you have my thanks. I hope you can get through the afternoon OK!

The Tories want another election because they can afford it. Labour is less cash-rich than the Tories so would struggle to mount a second campaign so soon after this one. I suspect it's as simple as that.

PorFavor wrote:@yahyah

Davy's On the Road Again (Manfred Mann's Earth Band) will, hopefully, be appropriate.

Green candidate urges supporters to vote Labour

Here’s a rare case of a candidate who doesn’t want any votes. Guardian James Parker, the Green candidate for the south London marginal of Eltham, has told his supporters they should give their votes to Labour, Jessica Elgot reports.

Parker, whose south London constituency is a Labour seat with a slim marginal of under 1,700 votes, told the Guardian he wanted to see Ed Miliband as prime minister.

“If you are voting Green in Eltham as a protest, do vote for Clive Efford, the Labour candidate,” Parker said. “If you really feel Green in your heart, then vote for me, but it is more important that we don’t have a Conservative government.”

Parker, who said he was genuinely still torn as to whether he would vote for himself, said he was hoping for Green victories in some of the closer seats, like Brighton Pavilion and Bristol West, but said he did not want people to vote Green where candidates, like him, could not win and where Labour was battling Tories.

Parker, a former Labour party member who left after the Iraq war, said. he wanted to see “a Labour government with Green influence.”

“The centre ground is between the Greens and Labour now,” he said. “I think as a party we could have played it better at this tactically, and stood down in areas where Labour were fighting the Conservatives, and Labour could have stood back in seats where we might win from the Lib Dems and the Tories.

“I’d like to see us work together. We on the left should not give in to competitive self-interest.”

“I’d like to see us work together. We on the left should not give in to competitive self-interest.”

FuriousGeorge wrote:Afternoon everyone! Feeling positive about the latest polls!

As a bit of light relief heres some election coverage from Taiwan!



Seriously how do you embed a youtube video? The youtube bb code thing doesnt seem to work

SpinningHugo wrote:Go on twitter, type in pencil and discover hundreds of kippers urging people to vote using a pen so that their vote cannot be changed.

And these people get a vote too.

In an online campaign dubbed #OperationScallop, shared hundreds of times on Facebook and Twitter, activists have urged voters to wait until the final hour of polling on Thursday so they can track their ballot papers from polling stations to count centres, in an attempt to prevent them being tampered with.

A detailed advice sheet issued by the Twitter account for a Glasgow-based IT company Spectrum Systems urges them to photograph their voting papers, check that each ballot carries valid security markings and then watch them be correctly handled.