Check in when you have voted in the 2024 general election

[WouldBe]

Voted at about 6.30.

Voted tactically, didnt want to but want to see the fuckers decimated more

You voted twice.

 

[ruffneck23]

You voted twice.

Ah I see now

 

[planetgeli]

Fuck it. I was bored. The sun came out. The drive to the polling station (2 miles) is through amazing countryside and I get to see alpacas. Ain't democracy strange?

PC. Just to make sure Refuck get shat on.

I enjoyed the drive. The alpacas. The sheep. The quiet. There was nobody else there.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

I saw Reform had a candidate on my ballot.

Saw where they lived

Fucking Bromley of course.

 

[WouldBe]

Ah I see now

Caught out.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I've had a really serious surreal afternoon, I walked down to the polling station about 2.30pm. to the left was for posh people from the south of village, long queue, the right was for us plebs from the north of the village, I was straight in & out.

Apparently overall they were well busy compared to normal for a GE, outside was two tellers, one each from Labour & the Tories, I had a friendly chat, congratulated Labour on their local campaign, took the piss out of the Tory guy, but made him laugh when I said I was concerned about the Reform vote, and I could never forgive them for enabling the crazy frog-faced guy.

Popped into the village micro-pub for a couple of pints, that place is bloody dangerous, started to talking to a few people I've met in there before, another couple joined us, she spotted my Radio Caroline T-shirt and started singing their jingles from the 60s, long chat, turned out she's sadly dying from cancer, but thanked me for bringing back great memories from her youth.

I am now four pints in, and somehow got talking to a Parish Councilor about the rave scene of the 80s, and comparing notes on what drugs we did back then.

Six pints in, time to leave, decided to pop into the village chip shop for the seniors fish & chips, proper bargain at £5.50, waiting for that to be cooked, another guy sat next to me, yawning his head off, I joking said, sorry, but are we keeping you awake?

He replied he was knackered after a long weekend away, and asked if I had ever heard of Glastonbury Festival, do'h! So , another long conversation, got back home about an hour ago.

#villagelife.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Must admit, I've been going round all hunched shoulders today, waiting for the inevitable lightening bolt.

Got to say, an interventionist God with Anarchist principles would be...theologically challenging.

 

[moochedit]

had a busy day, just leaving Bristol now having seen friends

should be at polling station by 2140 all being well

Your gonna be late and the tories win by one vote. Please tell me your mp is not rees-mogg!

 

[tim]

Self-righteously told the woman with a big red rossete outside the polling that Stephen Timms was a homophobe an that he wasn't getting my vote and then joined a surprisingly long queue and voted Green with no great conviction.

 

[ouirdeaux]

Forgot to say that I voted, at around 4.30pm. No dogs. Nobody else in the polling station. Voted Green, because it's a safe Labour seat.

 

[kebabking]

After a couple of hours being the annoying cunt outside a polling station, wearing a rosette and asking for people's polling card numbers, I can say that turn out looks better than average, but that I'm even less sure of the result here than I was before.

Am currently drinking tea and watching the Amanda Holden & Alan Carr Sicily thing.

 

[WouldBe]

Your gonna be late and the tories win by one vote. Please tell me your mp is not rees-mogg!

No Mogg is further to the right than any of Elpenor candidates.

 

[moochedit]

No Mogg is further to the right than any of Elpenor candidates.

Who isn't mogg further to the right of?

 

[cupid_stunt]

Oh, yeah, I forgot the dog count - 2 at the polling station, 4 in the micro-pub, 2 of which couldn't leave alone!

 

[WouldBe]

Who isn't mogg further to the right of?

All those to the right, north and south of Somerset.

 

[bluescreen]

Been here for nearly 10 years, busiest I've ever seen the polling station.

Is the ID checking creating the illusion of busy-ness because of all the waiting? I don't know. When I went past later it looked pretty busy with determined-looking people heading towards the polling station and there was a queue.

 

[Callie]

No dogs I even took the scenic route home to look for cats...nothing. waste of my time.

 

[Knotted]

Can't find any ID not voting.

 

[WouldBe]

Is the ID checking creating the illusion of busy-ness because of all the waiting?

When I went they just glanced at my voter certificate without even looking up at me.

 

[Steel Icarus]

My lad's been banging on about my first chance to vote in a General Election and sharing Hot Takes with his Mail reading grandfather but apparently "might vote, depends if I have ID on my phone".

Youth these days, etc

 

[Elpenor]

Your gonna be late and the tories win by one vote. Please tell me your mp is not rees-mogg!

Just done it. Got delayed by fucking my exhaust in a pothole and then roadworks

 

[moochedit]

My lad's been banging on about my first chance to vote in a General Election and sharing Hot Takes with his Mail reading grandfather but apparently "might vote, depends if I have ID on my phone".

Youth these days, etc

You can't use your phone as id. Apparently some people tried to use photos on their phone of passports etc at previous elections.

 

[RubyToogood]

Usual futile green vote in a safe Labour seat. Least worst option, probably because I haven't actually read their policies.

 

[LeytonCatLady]

Got home from work, fed the cat, got my passport and went straight back out to vote again. Went for Labour as it's realistically either going to be Starmer or Ratface, and I live in a Labour seat anyway.

 

[kebabking]

No dogs I even took the scenic route home to look for cats...nothing. waste of my time.

This is Monty, he says hello.

 

[Hotel Chocolate]

And the polling stations close in 10...

 

[Hotel Chocolate]

Nine

 

[moochedit]

T - 8 mins

 

[moochedit]

T - 7 mins

Time to flick telly on ready for exit poll methinks.

 

[Hotel Chocolate]

T-6 mins

Telly on