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UK PoliGAF: General election thread of LibCon Coalitionage

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iapetus

Scary Euro Man
Sir Fragula said:
Going to vote soon. Really wanted to vote Lib Dem but Crawley is pointless.

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We really need reform. The next election needs to be fought on STV or AV or something that isn't FPTP. That's the single biggest issue right now, bigger than the deficit.
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Does not compute. Refusal to vote for the party you really want elected isn't going to help bring in STV - it's just going to make it look like FPTP is working better than it actually is.
 
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J Tourettes

Banned
Sir Fragula said:
Going to vote soon. Really wanted to vote Lib Dem but Crawley is pointless. That said there IS a silver lining - my neighbourhood nearly always votes in a Lib Dem councillor [who is a friend of the family] so I can vote Labour in national and Lib Dem in local.

We really need reform. The next election needs to be fought on STV or AV or something that isn't FPTP. That's the single biggest issue right now, bigger than the deficit.
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If your vote is pointless, couldn't you have just voted lb dem anyway, adding to their total number of votes and aiding them in their quest for PR?
 
C

Cindres

Vied for a tag related to cocks, so here it is.
Off out to vote in a couple hours.
C'mon! Politics naturally has been the biggest conversation topic at college today, so i'm pretty pumped.
And ready for Channel 4's Alternate election night coverage and BBC's at 10. This will be awesome.
TV = Channel 4
PC = Streaming BBC
 
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SmokyDave

Member
Sir Fragula said:
Going to vote soon. Really wanted to vote Lib Dem but Crawley is pointless. That said there IS a silver lining - my neighbourhood nearly always votes in a Lib Dem councillor [who is a friend of the family] so I can vote Labour in national and Lib Dem in local.

We really need reform. The next election needs to be fought on STV or AV or something that isn't FPTP. That's the single biggest issue right now, bigger than the deficit.
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I'm surprised. I don't really understand how voting Labour will get you any closer to your aims?

If every safe constituency has no voters that break from the pack they'll stay safe forever.
 
E

Empty

Member
Guys, Crawley isn't a Labour safe seat, it was the most marginal seat in the country in the country at the 2005 election, with Labour holding a majority of just 37 votes.
 
Nicktendo86

Nicktendo86

Member
J Tourettes said:
What constituency are you in? He won Bow last time but isn't running there this time, think he's running in Limehouse.
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I'm in Bethnal Green & Bow, apparently he said he would only sit for one term, he has kept to that and is campaigning to be elected in the neighbouring constituency Poplar & Limehouse this time. My girlfriend lives in Poplar so I've seen him going past a few times.
 
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killer_clank

Member
When I voted (For SNP), the local conservative candidate was outside. As much as I don't like Labour, it was hilarious because the people they had outside were taking the piss out of him for some misleading graph on his election leaflet. :lol
 
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Varion

Member
J Tourettes said:
What happened to the Lib Dem voters from earlier in this thread? Seems like Labour overload now.
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I only just got out of bed :lol

Haven't voted yet obviously, I'll be going to do it soon.
 
C

curls

Wake up Sheeple, your boring insistence that Obama is not a lizardman from Atlantis is wearing on my patience 💤
Voted Lib Dem.
 
T

The Friendly Monster

Member
Voted Lib Dem (Cambridge), everyone else I know who is voting in Cambridge and has told me their vote has voted Lib Dem too (about 10).

The people I know who have voted Tory live outside Cambridge in Tory constituencies anyway, very odd.

Parents voted Labour (Macclesfield).
 
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ColR100

Member
Just had a two tory toff's at my door looking for my family's vote. Told them I'd already voted.......then they asked me who, and I said Labour (with the facial expression of get the fuck off my property). :lol
 
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mclem

Member
A little later than planned - after suddenly realising that it might be smart going in with a bit of knowledge about the *council* election, too - but I'm back now, having done my duty.

I didn't realise that while Oxford East is insignificant from one point of view - the Tories have no hope here - it's really really important from another; the BBC have classed it the LD's fourth biggest chance to gain. So it was nice to feel like I'd made a difference in one respect.
 
M

Manos: The Hans of Fate

Banned
Dabookerman said:
Well ok I get you now.

The thing is the smaller parties tend to cater to only a few issues.
Ukip = get out of europe
BNP = Deport all immigrants

etc etc

Surely America has parties like that.
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They never actually get elected to anything, even on a local level.
 
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Parl

Member
Manos: The Hans of Fate said:
They never actually get elected to anything, even on a local level.
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Yeah, the US is even more of a two party state than the UK. And the US isn't part of an economic and political union like the EU, which is opposed by many of the uniformed.
 
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Napoleonthechimp

Member
So it turns out you don't need a polling card or any forms of ID in order to vote. Just give them a name and address and you're good to go which is blatantly ridiculous as I could have gone to every single polling station nearby and voted over and over again (not that it'd matter as I'm in a conservative stronghold).

They really need to overhaul the entire system.
 
G

Gary Whitta

Member
Wes said:
Did you hear the Greek Balcony report :lol :lol
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I only just turned it on, what did I miss?

I did turn Sky Player on in time to see Harry Redknapp get the water barrel tipped over him. LOL. Get in there you Spurs! :D :D :D
 
X

Xavien

Member
My dad and I just voted
Lib Dem
in a Conservative safe seat (South Holland and the Deepings)...

Yay for the wasted vote, but atleast it adds to the Lib Dem popular vote and there might be some freak swing to the Lib Dems but i doubt it.
 
T

Timbuktu

Member
Napoleonthechimp said:
So it turns out you don't need a polling card or any forms of ID in order to vote. Just give them a name and address and you're good to go which is blatantly ridiculous as I could have gone to every single polling station nearby and voted over and over again (not that it'd matter as I'm in a conservative stronghold).

They really need to overhaul the entire system.
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You have to be registered though, right? And your name and address would only be on the list at one polling station.

Count me in for another Lib Dem vote in a Conservative safe seat.
 
W

Wes

venison crêpe
Gary Whitta said:
I only just turned it on, what did I miss?
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They'll put it up on iPlayer. They went to their correspondent out in Greece who was in a hotel giving his report I assume when they could hear some kind of activity going on outside, so the reporter tried to get out to the balcony to see what was going on but the cable wouldn't stretch that far and he was getting tangled up and Peter Allen was getting sarcy.

It was funny radio.
 
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curls

Wake up Sheeple, your boring insistence that Obama is not a lizardman from Atlantis is wearing on my patience 💤
Manos: The Hans of Fate said:
They never actually get elected to anything, even on a local level.
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You forget the Greens! THE GREENS!

The Conservative candidate in Brighton described the Greens as a bunch of Neocommunists and Stalinists, the Labour party were described as a bunch of dirty socialists.

I added the word dirty
 
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mclem

Member
Gary Whitta said:
Wish I could get some live BBC TV coverage out here in the US, I'm stuck with Radio 5...
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Is the BBC's streaming coverage UK only? I thought significant news reports were open to the world?
 
scotcheggz

scotcheggz

Member
+1 for the chippy tonight!

Got my vote in for the greens in Brighton Pavilion. Bit of a weird seat, greens Vs tory. Lots of anti-tory graff and posters been put up over night by people on the way to the polling station that put a smile on my face!
 
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Gary Whitta

Member
mclem said:
Is the BBC's streaming coverage UK only? I thought significant news reports were open to the world?
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The streaming TV coverage is UK only, I think.

I found an app that streams various international channels but the best that one offers is Sky News. I'll have to make do :p

Oh I've got Channel 4 too, what do they have planned?
 
edgefusion

edgefusion

Member
Xavien said:
My dad and I just voted
Lib Dem
in a Conservative safe seat (South Holland and the Deepings)...

Yay for the wasted vote, but atleast it adds to the Lib Dem popular vote and there might be some freak swing to the Lib Dems but i doubt it.
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There's something to be said for standing by your convictions though.
 
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Stinkles

Clothed, sober, cooperative
Congrats Britain, you are going to have a nakedly evil and incompetent government tomorrow, instead of a hypocritical and incompetent one.
 
scotcheggz

scotcheggz

Member
Gary Whitta said:
The streaming TV coverage is UK only, I think.

I found an app that streams various international channels but the best that one offers is Sky News. I'll have to make do :p

Oh I've got Channel 4 too, what do they have planned?
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Consider yourself a lucky man, becuase they have a belter planned! David Mitchell and Charlie Brooker!

On a semi-related note, my gf just sent me a picture of her and super hands! Apparently he came into her work today so she snapped a picture of him and her together :lol
 
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mclem

Member
Gary Whitta said:
Oh I've got Channel 4 too, what do they have planned?
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"Alternative Election Night" - election-themed comedy. Hopefully a bit like the Election Night Armistice, which was incredible.
 
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Parl

Member
Napoleonthechimp said:
So it turns out you don't need a polling card or any forms of ID in order to vote. Just give them a name and address and you're good to go which is blatantly ridiculous as I could have gone to every single polling station nearby and voted over and over again (not that it'd matter as I'm in a conservative stronghold).

They really need to overhaul the entire system.
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That's just silly. Why don't they just have it so you can only vote at the polling station that's on your polling card?

They do.
 
M

Meadows

Banned
OuterWorldVoice said:
Congrats Britain, you are going to have a nakedly evil and incompetent government tomorrow, instead of a hypocritical and incompetent one.
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Oh sweet, you know the results then???
 
M

Manos: The Hans of Fate

Banned
curls said:
You forget the Greens! THE GREENS!

The Conservative candidate in Brighton described the Greens as a bunch of Neocommunists and Stalinists, the Labour party were described as a bunch of dirty socialists.

I added the word dirty
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Greens :lol
 
Nicktendo86

Nicktendo86

Member
Parl said:
That's just silly. Why don't they just have it so you can only vote at the polling station that's on your polling card?

They do.
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It's true you can't go to any as only the polling station allocated to you has your name I believe, but there is nothing stopping you from pretending you are someone else so long as you know their name and address. The system really is open to fraud and needs to be sorted.
 
Z

Zenith

Banned
SmokyDave said:
Don't we all, deep down?
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Tories will just clinch it or just miss it. But I think it'll be so close they'll appeal to the smaller parties for a coalition than the Lib Dems.
 
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Varion

Member
Back from my first voting expedition. Unsurprisingly voted
Lib Dem
.

I really know nothing about any of the local election candidates, and I'm only going to be living in this constituency for 3 more months, so I just went for the same on the local card :lol

Now we wait... I hate this bit.
 
R

Roxas

Member
Meadows said:
Llandudno, I was so sick of seeing all those fucking Guto Bebb posters everywhere man :lol
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Llanrwst :D

And your right, fuck Guto Bebb and the unreal amount of garbage his followers have pushed through my letterbox
 
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