LibDem voters - will you vote for them again?

Fozzy · **Posted:** Wed May 02, 2012 9:52 pm

Oh dear. Just asked young Miss Fozzy when she was going to vote tomorrow, and she said she didn't know there was an election, or at least that the election was tomorrow. To be fair, she has had her head down working 14 hour plus days lately, in her capacity as a workshy public sector NQT.

Anyway, I put her right - told her that she wasn't allowed to vote Boris, Lib Dem, UKIP or BNP if she wanted to darken our doors again. I believe in benign dictatorship in these circs.

Abernathy · **Posted:** Wed May 02, 2012 9:53 pm

Weel done, Fozz.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Wed May 02, 2012 10:40 pm

Stephanie Flanders, BBC Economics editor, Tweeted angrily that when she went to vote her polling station had closed early...

Several thousand people pointed out the obvious fact to her.

oboogie · **Posted:** Wed May 02, 2012 10:44 pm

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

Stephanie Flanders, BBC Economics editor, Tweeted angrily that when she went to vote her polling station had closed early...

Several thousand people pointed out the obvious fact to her.

Whaaat?

Economics editor?
Surely some mistake?

mojojojo · **Joined:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:33 pm **Posts:** 4311

Bloke came in the library today to see if we would be a polling station. I pointed out that there are no local election in this particular authority tomorrow. He was outraged at the lack of democracy.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Wed May 02, 2012 10:50 pm

oboogie wrote:

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

Stephanie Flanders, BBC Economics editor, Tweeted angrily that when she went to vote her polling station had closed early...

Several thousand people pointed out the obvious fact to her.

Whaaat?

Economics editor?
Surely some mistake?

Obviously your first thought is that it's a joke, but she seems to have been genuiine...

Quote:

Stephanie Flanders ‏ @BBCStephanie

Just tried to vote. My polling station, in Hammersmith, had closed two hours early. Has anyone else had same problem?

Quote:

Stephanie Flanders ‏ @BBCStephanie

My democratic outrage is now in abeyance. Apparently all stations closed because, er, today isn't Thursday. Clearly I need an early night.

Quote:

Stephanie Flanders ‏ @BBCStephanie

“@TraceyPaul: Presume this is to draw attention to Polling Day and encourage everyone to vote tomorrow”. YES that was it.

Several people having Tweeted that when they tried to vote this morning the polling stations were full of kids having some sort of assembly...

Abernathy · **Posted:** Wed May 02, 2012 11:36 pm

Oh, Stephanie, Stephanie. Gorgeous Stephanie. This makes me want to shag you senseless (in a caring, non-sexist, way) all the more.

More than your dad being Michael Flanders.

Abernathy · **Posted:** Wed May 02, 2012 11:42 pm

A propos polling station mishaps, once, when I was the agent in what was then a tense two-way marginal between Labour and the Tories, I was fulminating about the Tory candidate - who was an utter cunt, by the way - on my way into the polling station to vote. So much so that I inadvertently placed my cross next to his name on my ballot paper.

Cue embarassed shuffle towards the presiding officer to explain that I'd made a terrible mistake and ask for a new ballot paper. I'm still trying to live the day I nearly voted Tory down.

Fozzy · **Posted:** Thu May 03, 2012 9:32 am

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

Stephanie Flanders, BBC Economics editor, Tweeted angrily that when she went to vote her polling station had closed early...

Several thousand people pointed out the obvious fact to her.

Oh dear. Bet that gave Paul Revoir an orgasm. Featuring in your Mail Online any moment now ...

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7342

Just voted in the local elections.

My transferrable vote stopped transferring before I reached the Libdems

mattomac · **Posted:** Thu May 03, 2012 12:21 pm

They have moved my polling station, so I will have to try after work tonight.

jlewis89 · **Posted:** Thu May 03, 2012 2:31 pm

Just walked the 20 yards from my front door to the Polling Station. Nice to see that for the first time since I've been eligible to vote there is no BNP candidate standing.

The word is that Labour may win 17 out of the 20 seats up for grabs in Rochdale,which would mean a net gain of 10 seats. Sadly though my ward is predicted to remain in Tory hands.

new puritan · **Posted:** Thu May 03, 2012 7:05 pm

Voted Green in the local and Green 1st, Labour 2nd in the mayoral. Can't really see anything other than a comfortable win for the Labour candidate for mayor - it comes to something when the only other candidate with any profile is a notorious ex-con. What powers the eventual winner will actually have apparently won't be determined until November, rendering the whole thing a bit of a farce. I would have preferred to see a city-region mayor for Greater Manchester and a GMC-style assembly rather than mayors for individual boroughs myself.

Picklechu2 · **Joined:** Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:01 pm **Posts:** 639

Voted Labour in my ward election. UKIP won it last time. We had Labour, Tory, Lib Dem and UKIP candidates standing. Not really a choice to make.

Quote from a UKIP candidate standing in the council elections: "They might come up with statistics that say crime is going down, but that is not what you hear from ordinary people, or what you see when you read the newspaper." Anecdote trumps data in UKIP land...

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7342

jlewis89 wrote:

Just walked the 20 yards from my front door to the Polling Station. Nice to see that for the first time since I've been eligible to vote there is no BNP candidate standing.

The word is that Labour may win 17 out of the 20 seats up for grabs in Rochdale,which would mean a net gain of 10 seats. Sadly though my ward is predicted to remain in Tory hands.

No BNP or UKIP in my Ward.
I suspect the BNP don't fancy a "Warm Glasgow welcome", while UKIP don't consider us to be part of their UK.

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