I felt really positive until yesterday when two separate people told me Jezza was a terrorist and no way can someone vote for a terrorist.  It’s just that fucking simple for most people....

We’re going to see some important results today...at the game awards.

Come on guys, we can do it, get out and vote!

Well, this is it.
Godspeed lads!

The family and I were going to try and make a difference but bad news badgers, it's going to be a blue Christmas down in the valley.



Bon chance to the rest of the country. x

you can still try BHD. not voting cos the others are probably going to win is exactly what they want.

i'll make a broad sweeping complete guess and say if everyone that doesn't vote, actually did so and all for the same party, it would swing most seats and deffo the election overall.

acemuzzy wrote:

Well is it a contest, or isn't it?!?

Not so much.

So most likely 2 votes will be missed from the Elf household. First, my wife forgets to register for proxy vote. Now my mother is probably too unwell to go out and vote, she has just come out of hospital. This has happened before and it’s my fault for not registering her for postal or proxy vote. 

Although I’m sure we will still be a Labour constituency. 11k majority last time.

RamSteelwood wrote:

you can still try BHD. not voting cos the others are probably going to win is exactly what they want.

i'll make a broad sweeping complete guess and say if everyone that doesn't vote, actually did so and all for the same party, it would swing most seats and deffo the election overall.

There are in fact very few constituency leads that would withstand a coordinated vote by their non-voters. For example, the non-voters in Uxbridge in 2017 outnumber the total amount of votes Boris Johnson received; something like 23k non-voters compared to 21k for BJ.

Sorry that’s actually not quite accurate - there were 24k votes for BJ and 23k non voters (registered voters who didn’t vote, spoiled ballot or had their ballot rejected).

Still, only 99 majorities could withstand the non-voter vote. 99!

hylian_elf wrote:

So most likely 2 votes will be missed from the Elf household. First, my wife forgets to register for proxy vote. Now my mother is probably too unwell to go out and vote, she has just come out of hospital. This has happened before and it’s my fault for not registering her for postal or proxy vote. 

Although I’m sure we will still be a Labour constituency. 11k majority last time.

Emergency proxy vote, ring the electoral office

Your wife can still vote in person, no?

So turns out that even Boris Johnson can't vote for himself.

I had a bit of moment this morning at the polling station, realising how privileged I am to have to make a choice between two good guys. The Tories have nae chance here, but SNP and Labour is a close-run thing. Not many constituencies are so fortunate.

Just had a proper knives out argument with people in my office who are planning on voting Tory, despite living in communities that have suffered the most under those cunts. Get Brexit Done is working (despite the millions in EU funding that the NE has received), anti-semetic smears are working (despite these people probably never having met a Jewish person in their lives), the Danger To Democracy argument of a second referendum is working (despite them simultaneously admitting that they didn't know what they were voting for in 2016).

It's an absolute shit show up here. Freely admitting that they don't really understand or are interested in politics or what any of the parties really stand for. Saying that they will "vote for Boris" because "you know what you are getting". These are NHS workers FFS! They've drunk the kool aid and I've had to leave the office to calm down before I said something that got me in trouble.

"I'm entitled to my opinion!" they say, whilst freely admitting that theirs is completely uniformed and ignorant. FUCKING CUNTS.

I honestly feel like crying.

Gremill wrote:

I honestly feel like crying.

I just keep trying to understand how we got to this point, because that’s the only way to figure out how to change it in future. I keep coming back to education. What was being taught in British schools (30 years ago? 20 years ago?) to lead to this generation of head-in-sand, politically vacant, easily manipulated people? I’m 100% sure the media (and latterly social media) have played a major part, but this is a country of people who were receptive to that media conditioning when they should have been equipped with a healthy cynicism and critical tools.

Or, and this is possibly a scarier thought, has this always been the way? Have the majority of people always been this disconnected from reality and it’s just that modern communications and media are letting us see it clearly?