The 2024 UK General Election - news, speculation and updates

[kebabking]

Is it too late to move, and register to vote in that new constituency?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Is it too late to move, and register to vote in that new constituency?
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Looks like it was written by AI

 

[emanymton]

Looks like it was written by AI

Certainly by someone with even less understanding of correct grammar than me.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Is it too late to move, and register to vote in that new constituency?
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Can't tell if he's batshit insane or just completely unable to write a coherent sentence. Most likely both.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Been wondering what they do with all the ballot boxes between elections, as there must be many thousands of them in the UK. Maybe they live in a warehouse somewhere and are dispatched around the country at election time, or used at village fetes for tombolas and stuff.

i think the modern plastic ones are stackable if you take the lids off unlike the old metal ones, but yes, councils do need to store elections stuff, not just the ballot boxes, but the folding wooden voting booth / screen things and as many of the signs as can be used again.

council i work for has somewhere fairly remote that's a storage facility, as senior managers think everything is paperless now and you don't need actual storage space at main council office buildings...

 

[belboid]

ours fold down, so they can be neatly filed away. Haven't been a metal box for years.

 

[two sheds]

Certainly by someone with even less understanding of correct grammar than me I.

cfu







sorry

 

[Puddy_Tat]

cfu

* fewer

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Useful.

General Election timings: Here’s when you will know who’s won and where

Ilford North and Ilford South are likely to be the last

www.independent.co.uk

 

[two sheds]

* fewer

* understandings

 

[Serge Forward]

cfu







sorry

"...better grammar than me" is acceptable. So is "...better grammar than I have". But "better grammar than I" is just weird.

To labour the point, which works best? "Better grammar than us" or "better grammar than we"?

 

[two sheds]

'better grammar than me' suggests 'better grammar than me has' which is just wrong

 

[two sheds]

"...better grammar than me" is acceptable. So is "...better grammar than I have". But "better grammar than I" is just weird.

To labour the point, which works best better? "Better grammar than us" or "better grammar than we"?

best = better since there are only two choices there

 

[danny la rouge]

"...better grammar than me" is acceptable. So is "...better grammar than I have". But "better grammar than I" is just weird.

The verb, to have, is at the beginning: it’s OK for a verb to have two subjects. Both “you” and “I” have a relationship with the object, grammar, and we are discussing our relative relationships with it.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

 

[Serge Forward]

I love grammar derails

 

[Serge Forward]

Don't you still have unanswered questions for our hitmouse?

 

[Sue]

Who cares? I mean this is ridiculous stuff.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Snakes at polling stations

tonysingh

 

[moochedit]

Snakes at polling stations

tonysingh

That's one of the candidates

 

[two sheds]

The verb, to have, is at the beginning: it’s OK for a verb to have two subjects. Both “you” and “I” have a relationship with the object, grammar, and we are discussing our relative relationships with it.

I liked that because it then looks like you're agreeing with me. I have no idea what it actually says though

 

[two sheds]

Who cares? I mean this is ridiculous stuff.

Would be better if the fucker took four years off.

 

[Sue]

That's one of the candidates

How insulting to the poor snake.

 

[Sue]

Would be better if the fucker took four years off.

Fuck Starmer but this is just nonsense.

 

[PR1Berske]

Shared only because of the Welsh language, as we're on a grammar tangent n' all

 

[Bingoman]

Snakes at polling stations

tonysingh

Which party does he represent I wonder

 

[Leafster]

Which party does he represent I wonder

I think he's undecided.

He's sitting on the fence.

 

[Bingoman]

Its not often you see a chicken turning up at polling stations

Hens, lost engagement rings and other odd polling station stories

A round-up of the weird and wonderful tales from the frontline of managing elections.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[danny la rouge]

I think he's undecided.

He's sitting on the fence.

Get out!

 

[Calamity1971]

Just catching up on last night's Peston show, and James Cleverly is trying to convince people that the Tories can still win!

Last man standing?

I watched that last night. He slipped up to boast about ' what were leaving beh..err , what we are doing'