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Polling station was busy, but probably about as busy as it was during the indyref and the brexit ref. Had to wait a minute or so. Voted SNP. Was slightly tempted to vote Labour a few times in the campaign but loving Ian Murray is an absolute dick. He's solidly anti-Brexit but that's the only reason to vote for him. He hates Corbyn and everything about the modern Labour party I like, he hates. He's probably going to keep his seat anyway. I am worried about the Tories picking up seats in Scotland from the anti-tory vote being split between Labour and the SNP, like they did in 2017. A case where, since the SNP are the leading party, Labour doing well can help the Tories. I hope people are voting wisely.
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jimmydalad posted:Well he argued that when labour was in power it wasn’t like they abolished homeless or anything or something along those lines. I think he was talking about the vitriol in general. There are various forms of homelessness but will just mention rough sleepers as it's what most people think of. In the 1990s, there was a Rough Sleepers Initiative and then in the 2000s Labour's Homelessness action programme. Unfortunately I have not found any graphs /data covering this period in time. However, there is a graph for rough sleepers in England since 2010 (this page: homeless.org.uk/facts/homelessness-in-numbers/rough-sleeping/rough-sleeping-explore-data) where you can see that it has almost trebled. (Increase from 1.8k in 2010 to 4.7k in 2018)  More data you can explore here: https://public.tableau.com/profile/homeless.link#!/vizhome/RSstatsforweb/RSstats There will always be a level of rough sleepers for many complex reasons (including mental health). Anecdotally, in the cities now when I visit, I see a level of homelessness which I haven't seen since the early 1990s (tory time). There used to be a place in London called The Bullring - I think the Waterloo Imax is built over it now - and there was a cardboard city under there. I remember taking a friend of mine down there one night - he had expressed disbelief that it was a real thing - he was gobsmacked. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 21:19 on Dec 12, 2019 |
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HJB posted:a prog rock album away but you want one of the good ones now does Thick as a Brick qualify? (It is way too loving long)
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I'm off to the pub, might post here and there but won't be reading the thread. See you on the other side, everyone.
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Rarity posted:JEREMY TAKE MY ENERGY ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ 
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Are there any good livestreams? Ideally those who'll offer the most amount of irate hilarity and saltiness, either way this turns out
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Rarity posted:I'm off to the pub, might post here and there but won't be reading the thread. See you on the other side, everyone. Be safe Rarity.
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Did a democracy, good news it was far busier than last time, bad news it seemed to be mostly olds.
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Probably one of my greatest regrets in life, and I have very few of them, is that I've been unemployed and completely out of cash for the last few months and unable to do anything other than the bare minimum for this election. I'd love to be out there in my lovely little Corsa, doorstepping or hauling people to the polling place. However, now that I have a job, I'm going to be bunging a big bolus of cash Labour's way the second I get my first paycheck. I just hope it's to shore up a depleted warchest and not to have to fight another election.
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I'm going to get steaming in spoons then probably get home for 12/1 to watch the flurry of results, zero point sitting alone between that and the exit poll
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Managed to convince the missus and her sister to vote labour at the final hour. They were both gonna vote lib dem
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Sanford posted:216 leaflets in just under two hours. Seems I can still move fast if I need to. Not sure how short handed they are but they were delighted when I said I didn’t mind going on my own round the village where I used to live. Saw half a dozen labour posters and no others, and spoke to one guy who said he’d already voted brexit party. We still managed to bond over a mutual hatred of the tories and I resisted pointing out he’s a thick oval office. Some observations: Take a long ruler next time to push leaflets through with.
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Well, I voted. Came close to Labour, big fan of Corbyn. A friend was abused by the son of a Scottish Labour grandee, and the party and her family were both involved in covering it up, so I felt I couldn't in the end. Hopefully by next time around all those people will be dead/retired and Scottish Labour will have changed it's tune. Hoping Corbyn nails it elsewhere.
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Did a 14-hour shift GingOTV. Now I’m going to bed and will wake up in a new world.
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caps on caps on caps posted:Are there any good livestreams? Bercow is on Sky
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+1 for Labour in Sheffield Central. Polling station wasn't busy but I got there a bit before 4 so not optimal time for a lot of people I guess/hope. Only people in my (non-Norfolk) family/friends who didn't vote Labour were my parents who I'm pretty sure went lib dem, but in a deeply safe Tory seat. Family in Norfolk are a lost cause
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learnincurve posted:Bercow is on Sky Ash Sarkar and Owen Jones are on ITV tonight apparently
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Are sky news good now they aren't murdoch owned any more? Got to admit, them having Bercow on, and the BBC having Laura K, makes me want to go with Sky
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Don't care if this has been posted it's worth posting again  https://twitter.com/TommyCorbyn/status/1205201914666860545?s=19
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marktheando posted:Are sky news good now they aren't murdoch owned any more? Got to admit, them having Bercow on, and the BBC having Laura K, makes me want to go with Sky They've generally been OK.
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biglads posted:Ash Sarkar and Owen Jones are on ITV tonight apparently Well poo poo now I don't know what to watch, except not the BBC
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Ikwaylx posted:God I haven't been this anxious since I used to have exams and waiting for results. I swear to god this feeling is the pits. This is so me, especially the bit about the thread gradually giving me the confidence to express my political views. I've been leafleting, but my family don't talk politics and make me feel terribly uncouth when I try. Anyway I voted Labour and so did my wife. And my mum, a first for her. My brother is a hedge fund lawyer so I count it a victory that he voted Green.
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Sanford posted:Literally just put on Joe’s Garage by Frank Zappa and I’m going to listen to all of it including all the incredibly weird and bad bits, and then it’ll be exit poll time. Are you telling me I should come out of the fridge now, Mr. Boris? No, my son! You must go into The Fridge! What? And you will have Eh? Hey! A lot of votes!
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Whats' the best channel to watch the exit poll and anlysis and poo poo BBC 1? Sky News?
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Take a long ruler next time to push leaflets through with. That is fine advice I wish I had asked for earlier. Next time!
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ShadowSpectre posted:just wanted to drop into the thread: my illiterate in english, illiterate in bengali except for spoken gran went up to the person at the polling station today and said “LABOUR? NAMBAR?” and then went and counted down the list til she got to them to mark it down Good for gran  Just hope the person told her the right number!
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I've cast my Labour vote now, so it's all over bar the screaming. I wish I'd been able to help out with the actual campaigning rather than just donating, but depression is a fucker.  No-one at my polling station, but a) I went over at lunch so not exactly peak time, and b) I'm in a Labour safe seat anyway. God I hope the polls are wrong...
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I just cracked open a bottle of Glendronach to have a wee niff at it before the serious drinking starts at 10. It smells like victory.
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11 hours in chingford So exhausted I can now see through time to the coming revolution
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If I get to watch the slow creeping pundit realisation and dread I did on the trump and brexit votes but in my favour I'm going to have a great night. Please polls, you've been wrong the last bunch of times don't be right now!
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I’ve stolen my daughter’s Xbox one so I can drink wine in bed so now will be watching Sky through lack of choice. But more importantly initial reports are saying that the Lib Dem vote has collapsed in Boris’ constituency as all the melts are voting labour out of spite.
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Vlex posted:Don't care if this has been posted it's worth posting again Johnson's children will be making a twitter post any ... second ... now? Sky News has never been particularly bad, even in the Murdoch era. Boulton is a right-wing twat, but that's all him. I'm trying to remember what my life was like before frantically refreshing this thread every 20 minutes for the past month. I think I ... used to play guitar? I'll go do that for the next hour until PraxisCast starts.
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Apraxin posted:People have already said what time it comes out, but there’s no exit polls in the UK. There’s one poll for the entire country that all the major broadcasters collaborate on and release together. I read today somewhere the BBC are going to experiment tonight with constituency based exit polls.
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RockyB posted:Johnson's children will be making a twitter post any ... second ... now? I mean statistically they've probably posted a lot more than corbyn but most of them wouldn't know about it 
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I was absolutely convinced London was +5 hours from where I am but it turns out it’s just +3. What the hell i want exit polls nowwww Good luck!
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RockyB posted:Johnson's children will be making a twitter post any ... second ... now? They probably have, but like gently caress does he know who they are gently caress SAKE OWL
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ThomasPaine posted:If I get to watch the slow creeping pundit realisation and dread I did on the trump and brexit votes but in my favour I'm going to have a great night.
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RockyB posted:Johnson's children will be making a twitter post any ... second ... now? "I have never met this guy..."
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