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[TheBoy]

Imo, how you vote depends on whether or not you live in a marginal seat. If I lived in one I would hold my nose and vote Tory.
I don't, so I have the luxury of having a protest vote.
It has to be any tactic which doesn't allow Corbyn into number 10, unless your a lunatic by the name of Michael Heseltine, who said on tv last night that he would rather that scenario than a Tory victory. His europhillia has literally driven him past the point of insanity.

Hesaltine - a local resident here - has a monk on because the government have approved and funded a new bypass around Farthinghoe. Its made him quite cross, which has cheered up the last few weeks

Hopefully it goes throught his garden.

Sadly not.  As that would be funny as F

[Viral_Jim]

Cast my (completely pointless) vote this morning on the way to the office.

Like Eboy, I struggle with any of the shower of excrement that's on offer but hey ho. Given our constituency has never* had a less than 10,000 majority for the Tories, I don't have to give it any kind of serious consideration.


* At least once the turn of the century, which is all the data I could find

[Doctor Gollum]

I *WILL* go down and vote, but not sure I can bring myself to vote for any of the 6 candidates. Might be a spoil as a protest.


In India (I think), there is a NOTA option, which if it gets a certain percentage, that region has to go through the process again, but none of the original candidates are allowed to stand.  I think that's a cracking idea.

Something to consider when the bullets run out

[Rangie]

All done here 😎

[STEMO]

The time is nearly here. The bookies have Boris odds on for a majority.

[Nick W]

Imo, how you vote depends on whether or not you live in a marginal seat. If I lived in one I would hold my nose and vote Tory.
I don't, so I have the luxury of having a protest vote.
It has to be any tactic which doesn't allow Corbyn into number 10, unless your a lunatic by the name of Michael Heseltine, who said on tv last night that he would rather that scenario than a Tory victory. His europhillia has literally driven him past the point of insanity.

and that shows the tribal nature of British politics.
On the slightly more reasoned side, we were talking about this at practice on Wednesday evening when one of the ringers said "I've never voted Labour before, and can't believe how easy the current government has made it for me to do so".


Last night has ruined any chance of much needed UK government and constitutional reform for another generation.

[Doctor Gollum]

You say that, but there's a lot of fresh blood elected last night regardless of whether a seat changed party or not...

[Nick W]

You say that, but there's a lot of fresh blood elected last night regardless of whether a seat changed party or not...

that won't change an outdated system.
Those new people are already working on their parliamentary careers.

[Doctor Gollum]

They've five years to prove you wrong. I'm not naive enough to believe that being new makes them infallible, but I am prepared to give them the chance to try. 

[STEMO]

Not that much will change(for me) with Boris, but that was the best I could hope for. The change that could have happened with Corbyn would have definitely been for the worst.

[Nick W]

They've five years to prove you wrong. I'm not naive enough to believe that being new makes them infallible, but I am prepared to give them the chance to try. 

I've known too many politicians, both amateur and professional, to have much hope of that. The worthwhile ones are soon weeded out so as not to spoil things for the rest.

[TheBoy]

I thought voting was supposed to be anonymous?  I know my ballot paper can be traced back to me.

Isn't that a bit naughty?

[Doctor Gollum]

I thought voting was supposed to be anonymous?  I know my ballot paper can be traced back to me.

Isn't that a bit naughty?

No, the electoral role isn't covered by the data protection act aiui

[TheBoy]

I thought voting was supposed to be anonymous?  I know my ballot paper can be traced back to me.

Isn't that a bit naughty?

No, the electoral role isn't covered by the data protection act aiui

But the actual ballot paper should not be personally identifiable, surely?

[Doctor Gollum]

It technically isn't, in that the ballot paper tally and electoral roll are on separate pieces of paper... But it doesn't take a genius to match them up.