The Official UK Election Thread! 6th May it is!

[jimbob]

If you were female, I'd yell at you that women died to get you the vote. Get out there and don't let them have died in vain.

As you're not - well, possibly someone sacrificed something for universal male suffrage?

Rolfe.

Damn right they did

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartism

Just that it happened before the suffragettes.

And before talking about the various struggles since the 1930's for democracy in Europe

 

[Ashles]

First exit poll:

Conservatives: 307
Labour: 255
Lib Dems: 59
Others: 29

Hung parliament

(But remember it is an exit poll and its just a bit of fun)

 

[andyandy]

exit poll in!

307 for Tories

255 Labour

59 for Lib Dems

Hung Parliament

 

[andyandy]

First exit poll:

Conservatives: 307
Labour: 255
Lib Dems: 59
Others: 29

damn your fast fingers!

 

[Ashles]

opinion poll in!

307 for Tories

255 Labour

59 for Lib Dems

Hung Parliament

That's so old news.

 

[andyandy]

That's so old news.

lol

 

[commandlinegamer]

BBC showing off-will show results projected onto the Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster.

 

[Ashles]

Why do Sunderland feel the need to always be first?

Do they have like 28 voters or something?

 

[andyandy]

why is Victoria Derbyshire on BBC 5 live? She's utterly dreadful.....

 

[Ashles]

Curiously low figures for the Lib Dems.

Still they are exit poll figures and thus to be trusted about as much as Mayday's stories.

 

[jimbob]

Why do Sunderland feel the need to always be first?

Do they have like 28 voters or something?

No, but about 28 usually don't vote Labour, and it is a compact constituency.

 

[Ashles]

Actually I'm getting genuinely annoyed with Sunderland now.

Isn't counting the votes correctly slightly more important than this childish obsession with counting them really fast and having schoolboys chucking the ballot boxes around? They honestly look in real danger of dropping one of them and everyone watching voting papers flying off into the wind.

 

[Ashles]

Ed Davey looks a bit dopey. His little yellow flower is quite sweet though.

 

[Fiona]

People were turned away from the poll in Clegg's constituency?

 

[Ashles]

People were turned away from the poll in Clegg's constituency?

Well if they turned up en masse at 9:59...

 

[Fiona]

suggests a big turn out perhaps?

 

[Ashles]

BBC demonstrating the world's largest iPhone...

 

[MarkCorrigan]

Curiously low figures for the Lib Dems.

Still they are exit poll figures and thus to be trusted about as much as Mayday's stories.

Plus as Vince Cable said, it doesn't take postal votes into account.

Where are these polls held? I've never seen a pollster at a booth.

 

[Ashles]

Nooo, this river bit looks lame.

Piers Morgan????


ETA: They are filming piers Morgan very close up. And I have a 50 inch TV. This is not a good combnation.

 

[MarkCorrigan]

I don't think I can ignore the 'at all' bit. I'm now struggling to justify the very idea of voting. Does anyone have a good reason for bothering to turn out?

If you don't vote, you lose the right to complain about any political decision made because you decided that it didn't matter.