Voley
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28 miles off Lands End so not far. Bugger of a crossing at times though. I speak from nauseous experience.
Election night plans
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Yes that was in the post I replied to, do you have Voley on ignore or something
Scilly to St Ives is only about a third of the distance from Unst to Kirkwall.Pity the deputy returning officer who'll be stuck on a boat for about 7 hours if the haar is too bad to fly!
They've taken all of the passenger seats out of the plane that usually does the Westray - Papay route to make room for ballot boxes apparently.
Hotel Chocolate
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No, I just wrote my post before I read all the others. I know it duplicates information already given.Yes that was in the post I replied to, do you have Voley on ignore or something
spitfire
Minister for Balloons (retd.)
This is the easiest explainer I've seen so far.
Going to try and make it to Rishi. 3.30 or so. Haven't opened a beer yet. Holding off.
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Going to try and make it to Rishi. 3.30 or so. Haven't opened a beer yet. Holding off.
When are the general election results expected? Estimated timings for every constituency
A full list of estimated timings for each constituency, and key results to look out for every hour
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elbows
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If I were going to do that I'd probably get up again at somewhere between 2am and 3am, otherwise a lot of the results and sad-faced tories will probably be missed out on. Unless loads of places end up running late.gsv has made a sensible suggestion that we'll go to bed after exit polls, set an alarm for 4am and kind of doze through results and then I guess we'll try to drift back off to sleep once we're sure the Tories are good and dead.
strung out
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For the complete nerds, a trio of resources for your watch along:
- Tory Wipeout Bingo - have fun crossing off each Tory MP's face each time one of them gets voted out, or switch to automatic mode and have the website do it for you in real time
- Election Tracker Spreadsheet - A Google spreadsheet containing every seat in order of expected declaration time, notes of interest, predictions from various MRP polls. Should update in real time, or make a copy and update it yourself
- Jon Skeet's Election 2024 results stats sheet - A page with virtually every statistic around the election you could possibly want, including predictions from each polling company, and sections for most recent results, biggest swings of the night, biggest surprises (where the result confounds expectations), and a summary of each constituency. Will also be live updated throughout the night.
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MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
We're not the only people gloating over this are we?
spitfire
Minister for Balloons (retd.)
Larry O'Hara
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All nighter Watching with my cat while researching exactly why Reeves economic policies will fail and keeping an eye out for independent candidates…
Gerry1time
Did a wee in Dirac's toilet
I've started with a spot of prosecco. Depending on the scale of armageddon, I'll either be moving to sauvignon blanc (disappointing 10pm exit poll), more prosecco (strong 10pm exit poll) or busting out the bottle of Veuve Cliquot I've been saving for a special occasion for a few years now (Kemi Badenoch / Suella Braverman loses).
eatmorecheese
Free the bimbo koala Kenny
In bed after exit polls, then a full work day tomorrow, dammit. Having a little toast now, muttering death to the past....
moochedit
Mr Mooched It
Think i'm going for 1.30am. Avoids most of the "dead air time" but hopefully means i don't miss any portillo moments.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Just about to go to my pit. For drifting off to sleep and waking up in the middle of the night, maybe have the radio set to Radio 4 rather than 6.
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
Bingo card for anyone interested
Larry O'Hara
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I have the BBC on silent but Not the Andrew Marr Show on Youtube…
hitmouse
Did do all Google car mistakes
Working tomorrow, not got any special plans. I don't have the healthiest sleep patterns but expecting to be asleep far before most of the results come through. Lately I have found myself waking up super early a few times, presumably because of the dawn being so early, so maybe that'll happen again.
For those who are staying up to watch, have I mentioned that my new favourite word is "afammocc", a Neapolitan expression of schadenfreude? My Neapolitan friend describes it as "like a freeing cry of joy but charged with semantic nastiness", this dictionary gives it as "To cheer at somebody's pain or bad luck / an exclamation after a great achievements is reached". Might come in useful at some point, I imagine.
For those who are staying up to watch, have I mentioned that my new favourite word is "afammocc", a Neapolitan expression of schadenfreude? My Neapolitan friend describes it as "like a freeing cry of joy but charged with semantic nastiness", this dictionary gives it as "To cheer at somebody's pain or bad luck / an exclamation after a great achievements is reached". Might come in useful at some point, I imagine.
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Nine minutes in, and... yeah, I really doubt I'll have the stomach for this.
weltweit
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I managed part 1 of the plan, a couple of hours sleep until the 10pm exit poll.
And the exit poll shows pretty much what was expected, a labour landslide.
There is the detail to come from the actual results, the who lost their seats, Tories set to lose 241 seats, must be some prominent figures among that lot ..
And the exit poll shows pretty much what was expected, a labour landslide.
There is the detail to come from the actual results, the who lost their seats, Tories set to lose 241 seats, must be some prominent figures among that lot ..
