General Election June 2017

Good luck everyone.

I'm going in now.

"Stay on target"

5k wet run to the polling station. Odd looks. Pointed out that they'd marked my wife off and not me (we have very similar names). Cross in the box. Selfie outside. Upload to twitter #runandvote. 150m walk home. Job done.

Digger's voting for me tonight, GO CORBO!!!

I didn't even know you were running. TS for president.

That Iain Banks quote made me do an IRL LOL. I get the 'hard working Tory candidate anomaly' but they're still part of the Conservative party and still stand for the murder of working class children and casting into volcanos of disabled people.

Maybe it's easy for me as I have a top notch, hard working labour MP here, but I think I'd still vote for her if she was the niece of Jacob Rees-Mogg and didn't even live in Bristol (like our Tory candidate).

Just put a cross in the relevant box or you could...

https://twitter.com/benrathe/status/872708902219112450

Tories in Maidstone argued in 2015 that swastika next to their candidate's name was a vote for them and Council wanted to give them it

Chortle

(we have very similar names)

tory [x]

/jklol

Another ex-Clegg bod...

My old drinking buddy, Polly, was Clegg's political advisor in 2010 and then later when he was in government... I still haven't forgiven her... Clegg turned up to her wedding in a helicopter, my mate was sat next to him at the reception coked off his tits... #csb

We all laughed at her when she left journalism to work for Clegg, she started working for him not long before he became LibDem leader... A very swift rise to the top...

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I'm going to hold on to hope until the end of the day.

Haha yeah that's true 😃

Heseltine showed courage....he's out of the shit cos they kicked him out for it.

http://newsthump.com/2017/06/07/isis-supporters-planning-to-wreak-havoc-on-uk-by-voting-tory/

Oooh!

^^ ha!

Don't give me hope.

Queues to vote in Angell Town at 8.30. Nailed on Labour, but encouraging nonetheless.

I'm expecting a Tory majority of 60+.

What was it at the last one? im too lazy to go look

Edit I went to look. Only 12.

A Tory majority was always on the cards, the question is whether it's a landslide that results in the front-benchers becoming dictators of our future, or whether it's only a slim majority and will result in opposition from within the Tory party allowing the worst things over the next 5 years to be moderated by everyone else.

It's a straight choice between having an opposition or not.

We can hope it's more than that, but the worthwhile fight is just for meaningful opposition.

Perhaps the best thing about this election is that Theresa May and her front benchers have already destroyed any last illusions of competency they might have held with a general electorate. That's why the press has had to run a bunch of attack stuff over the past few days - May's 'strong and stable' pose looks stupid now

There is actually some logic that suggests if the Tory majority is between 0-20 that would be a bad outcome, because the Eurosceptic headbangers will be back in the driving seat. They will also get rid of Theresa May with anything less than a majority of 20, and probably replace her with someone from the hard right.

True, although on the flip side, May has shown zero interest in being open, consultative, accountable, etc., so if she has the numbers to do what whatever she wants, she will just get on with it regardless.

May is a lame duck now. Everyone knows that the Tories hate a weak leader, and she's shown her hand.

She will be replaced now, regardless of what happens. Rumour already has it that Boris Johnson is going to go for it hard this time, though even I'm unconvinced he really wants what amounts to sloppy thirds at this point.

My boss reported queues to vote in Hackney at 7am!