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UK PoliGAF: General election thread of LibCon Coalitionage

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OMG Aero

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Just got back from voting, when is the actual final result announced? I don't think I'll be bored enough to watch all the results come in at 11pm.
 
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Wes

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Crikey. This is a screengrab from BBC News.
 
Acheteedo

Acheteedo

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Ghost said:
holy crap, I'll wait to see if he's ok before i start rolling out the puns.
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"Mr Farage was taken to hospital in Banbury with non-life threatening injuries, and the pilot was transferred to University Hospital in Coventry."

pun away!

Man they got lucky, the cockpit was completely mashed.
 
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industrian

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SmokyDave said:
Wow, whereabouts do you live if they're keeping the Red flag flying?
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Pretty much everywhere in the UK. In some Scottish areas you'll see 3-5 socialist/communist parties on one ballot paper.

OMG Aero said:
Just got back from voting, when is the actual final result announced? I don't think I'll be bored enough to watch all the results come in at 11pm.
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It goes on through the night. I remember in 2007 I was finishing my dissertation whilst watching the Scottish Election results come in.

You should watch it though. You never know when you're going to get a moment like Paxman vs. Galloway.
 
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-viper-

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dammit 50% of my town have voted for the conservatives. 26% lib dems, 19% labour and the rest voted for stuff like UKIP and Green party.
 
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Wes

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I handed in my postal vote. Labour man tried to acost me beforehand asking for my ballot number, not who I was voting for, told him it was already in th eenvelope so I couldn't help him if I wanted to. Felt like I gave him a metaphorical kick in the balls.
 
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industrian

will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
-viper- said:
dammit 50% of my town have voted for the conservatives. 26% percent lib dems, 19% labour and the rest voted for stuff like UKIP and Green party.
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That's some mighty fine mind-reading skills you've got there.
 
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Ghost

Chili Con Carnage!
Wes said:
I handed in my postal vote. Labour man tried to acost me beforehand asking for my ballot number, not who I was voting for, told him it was already in th eenvelope so I couldn't help him if I wanted to. Felt like I gave him a metaphorical kick in the balls.
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Same thing happened to me, I read on Twitter that they are just counting voters, different parties at different polling stations.
 
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Parl

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SmokyDave said:
Sunny Daybrook! about 5 mins from you.

We had the Big 3, Greens & BNP to choose from.
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Notts here too. Sutton-In-Trashfield.

Voted in a 100% empty polling station.

One of the independant canditates's vehicles was going around town with speakers blurting out about voting for him, and as it went past me, a random chav started chanting "BNP, BNP, BNP!"
 
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Wes

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This was almost a piece of genius!

And now for a bit of novelty. Press Association's Chris Montcrieff reports that a candidate whose surname is "Above" and whose "Other Names" are given as "None Of The" is contesting the election in Chingford and Woodford Green, the seat being defended by Iain Duncan Smith, the former Conservative leader.


Unfortunately for "Mr Above" he appears, for alphabetical reasons, at the top of the list of candidates, with no one above him.

It might have been wiser for him to have renamed himself "Below", which would at least have put him second in a list of eight candidates.

The mystery candidate gives his address on the ballot paper as Woodberry Way, North Chingford.
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J Tourettes

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Salazar said:
GAF, I am grievously disappoint.

I saw the Daily Mirror front page, and I mistakenly read Tony Parsons' sack of false-consciousness chip on shoulder bullshit. I would rather watch every Linkin Park AMV ever created than reread that awful, offensive dribble.
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Tony Parsons sucks.
 
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SmokyDave

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industrian said:
Pretty much everywhere in the UK. In some Scottish areas you'll see 3-5 socialist/communist parties on one ballot paper.
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What is the appropriate image macro for travelling to Scotland?

Parl said:
Notts here too. Sutton-In-Trashfield.

Voted in a 100% empty polling station.

One of the independant canditates's vehicles was going around town with speakers blurting out about voting for him, and as it went past me, a random chav started chanting "BNP, BNP, BNP!"
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:lol Yup, that's Sutton!

We should weed out all the Notts Gaffers and go for a pint. A while after the election when everyones votes are forgotten though ;)
 
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Benson

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Just cast my vote for the lib dems, not sure if it'll do any good though as I live in a massive Conservative stronghold.
 
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Atrophis

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SmokyDave said:
We should weed out all the Notts Gaffers and go for a pint. A while after the election when everyones votes are forgotten though ;)
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I propose a NottsGaf trip to the cinema to watch Robin Hood and have a good laugh at its shittyness. :lol
 
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painey

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Just went out to vote, did it, went to the Chippy to get some lunch and started feeling uneasy after about 10 mins.. sodded off out of the queue and ended up passing out in the corner shop. Luckily the owner got a stool and got me an unshaken coke and I was up and about a minute later.. very disconcerting. I blame that 1 magpie I saw.. fucking domestic terrorists they are.
 
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Ghost

Chili Con Carnage!
painey said:
Just went out to vote, did it, went to the Chippy to get some lunch and started feeling uneasy after about 10 mins.. sodded off out of the queue and ended up passing out in the corner shop. Luckily the owner got a stool and got me an unshaken coke and I was up and about a minute later.. very disconcerting. I blame that 1 magpie I saw.. fucking domestic terrorists they are.
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Did the power of democracy overcome you?
 
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SmokyDave

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painey said:
Just went out to vote, did it, went to the Chippy to get some lunch and started feeling uneasy after about 10 mins.. sodded off out of the queue and ended up passing out in the corner shop. Luckily the owner got a stool and got me an unshaken coke and I was up and about a minute later.. very disconcerting. I blame that 1 magpie I saw.. fucking domestic terrorists they are.
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See, that's what you get when you tick the Red box.

Only kidding man, hope it's nothing to worry about, was the chippy really warm or something?

Atrophis said:
I propose a NottsGaf trip to the cinema to watch Robin Hood and have a good laugh at its shittyness. :lol
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Yes. That's genius. Now I just need to work out how to round up Notts-GAF. I'll stand outside Game in a "SmokyDave Wants You!" t-shirt.
 
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Dirtyshubb

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Me and the wife are gonna go vote after work, first time for both of us so its interesting.

Bit undecided still on who i should vote for, all im certain is i wont be voting Conservative as i honestly cant imagine having that slimy cunt Camron as our leader.
 
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Wes

venison crêpe
painey said:
had to sod em off.. 10 minutes+ waiting for cod and chips at lunch time?.. clueless. Ended up with a cherry coke and double decker :lol
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You would never have had to have gone through missing out on those chips if we lived in North Korea.
 
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industrian

will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
painey said:
had to sod em off.. 10 minutes+ waiting for cod and chips at lunch time?.. clueless. Ended up with a cherry coke and double decker :lol
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Just like my father once told me that "some people in the world would die for the chance to vote in an election" I will say "some people would kill someone for the chance of having British cuisine." People such as myself. YE DINNAE UNDERSTAND IT MAN, A'VE BEEN EATIN NOWT BUT RICE FOR A YEAR, GEEZ A FUCKIN PLATE AE CHIPS AT LEAST!

Wes said:
You would never have had to have gone through missing out on those chips if we lived in North Korea.
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NO U.
 
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bovo

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Wes said:
I handed in my postal vote. Labour man tried to acost me beforehand asking for my ballot number, not who I was voting for, told him it was already in th eenvelope so I couldn't help him if I wanted to. Felt like I gave him a metaphorical kick in the balls.
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All parties wanted this when i voted - said it was so no one needed to knock on the door later to get us to vote...
 
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BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
J Tourettes said:
Holy shit, I've never seen a polling station so busy! At first I thought it was maybe always this way in this constituency for the GE (I only moved to Tufnell Park 2 years ago) but then I heard the people working saying the same thing.
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Same here. Usually we are the only ones there when we vote, but it was rather busy today, especially as lunch time is probably quite a quiet period.

Nice weather in London too compared to the places they showed on the news.
 
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