Election - Place yer bets. - Page 15

Tealeaf · 06-05-2010, 22:33

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Originally Posted by steeljack

anyone know what time the Hyndburn results are usually announced ?
thx

Used to be about 2..but all depends on how many postal votes have to be counted and this time theres lots of 'em.

cashman · 06-05-2010, 22:37

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Originally Posted by steeljack

anyone know what time the Hyndburn results are usually announced ?
thx

Heard about 5-30- 6-00 mate, used to be much earlier n that, when used to be at Town Hall years ago.

Tealeaf · 06-05-2010, 22:47

Aye....I dunno where the count is now. is it the Sports Centre?

Anyway, the first results suggest a recount in Hyndburn.

Oh Dear. looks like we're in for a long night. I should have got more beer in.

garinda · 06-05-2010, 22:48

I don't bet, but my predictions are that Graham Jones will win Hyndburn, with a reduced majority, and for the Conservatives just to scrape a workable majority in Westminster.

Brown isn't wanted.

garinda · 06-05-2010, 22:49

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

Aye....I dunno where the count is now. is it the Sports Centre?

Anyway, the first results suggest a recount in Hyndburn.

Oh Dear. looks like we're in for a long night. I should have got more beer in.

Yeah, think it's the sports centre now.

You staying up?

I'm not.

My days of bumping and grinding to Things Can Only Get Better, down at the South Bank are long over.

steeljack · 06-05-2010, 22:50

In view of what seems to be a swing to the Tories in the North-East wonder if the Hyndburn Tories are regretting their actions in withdrawing their support for local candidate

cashman · 06-05-2010, 22:52

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Originally Posted by steeljack

In view of what seems to be a swing to the Tories in the North-East wonder if the Hyndburn Tories are regretting their actions in withdrawing their support for local candidate

would doubt that very much, they cant regret rejecting him surely?

Tealeaf · 06-05-2010, 22:55

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Originally Posted by garinda

Yeah, think it's the sports centre now.

You staying up?

I'm not.

My days of bumping and grinding to Things Can Only Get Better, down at the South Bank are long over.

Aye, I had three hours kip earlier.

I'll stay up to about the 100th seat declared, probably about 2am which is when I'll run out of beer (Thwaites Bomber, if you must know...£1.42 a bottle at Wapping Waitrose).

garinda · 06-05-2010, 22:56

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Originally Posted by steeljack

In view of what seems to be a swing to the Tories in the North-East wonder if the Hyndburn Tories are regretting their actions in withdrawing their support for local candidate

I just watched the first two results too, and am even more certain that this country needs proportional representation.

It's too difficult to predict a swing in two constituencies with such massive majorities. Lots of people there must feel disenfranchised, and that how they vote won't make any difference to the result, within these artifical political boundaries.

People must feel, of all parties, that it's a foregone conclusion, as witnesed by the turn-out, which was about 55%. Meaning 45% of people didn't bother.

garinda · 06-05-2010, 23:00

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

Aye, I had three hours kip earlier.

I'll stay up to about the 100th seat declared, probably about 2am which is when I'll run out of beer (Thwaites Bomber, if you must know...£1.42 a bottle at Wapping Waitrose).

Waitrose in the East End, how very gentrified.

I'll listen until about two, but can't be doing with all the new jiggery-pokery, computer graphics, that are instead of the old swing-o-meter, which was probably knocked up in a basement at the Beeb, by a Blue Peter runner.

Tealeaf · 06-05-2010, 23:03

Sunderlands had a low turnout presumably because they are safe labour seats. I suspect the turnout will be far higher in most seats, especially marginals. But there is going to be alot of legal stuff going on now over people not being able to vote.

I had to queue this morning for 10 minutes; not because of a large number of people voting, but because there were only three people manning the polling station - usually its at least twice that.

garinda · 06-05-2010, 23:07

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

Sunderlands had a low turnout presumably because they are safe labour seats.

True, that's why we need proportional represntation. So all people actualy think their vote is important, and will make a difference in who sits in the Commons.

If this means extremist parties win seats, so be it.

Perhaps the main stream parties will then address the issues that mean people turn to the far right/left.

steeljack · 06-05-2010, 23:09

slight wander ... question, have any areas in the UK tried using electronic voting machines?

garinda · 06-05-2010, 23:13

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Originally Posted by steeljack

slight wander ... question, have any areas in the UK tried using electronic voting machines?

You havin' a laugh?

No, you still have to queue, tell some dodderer your number, and take your slip into the booth, and make a mark with a stubby pencil.

Since there's always calls that the postal votes are rigged, and there are lots of secured things done on the internet, why we can't vote online is open to question.

I'm suprised we can't text a vote.

Britain's Got Politics Grand Final.

cashman · 06-05-2010, 23:14

Interestingly Labour have held Dundee east, which was a big target of the S.N.P. reckon its gonna be a long night, so cashys sodding off to bed.