yea well some people work... and work a fair distance from home
is turning up an hour before closing REALLY so unacceptable ? id certainly expect to get to vote within that hour
Poll: *** 2010 General Election Result & Discussion ***
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yea well some people work... and work a fair distance from home
is turning up an hour before closing REALLY so unacceptable ? id certainly expect to get to vote within that hour
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Sucks to be them, it took me all of 30 seconds
yup same here
About 2am.
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As if it's the same swing (migration of votes) across the country, Tory's will pwn Labour in marginal seats. These are swings in Labour strongholds.
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Can someone explain to me why some nobber is giving is the policy balls now when its all over!???!!!??
The two seats are VERY safe Labour seats (in so far as Labour had a very large majority in 2005) and they were always going to hold onto them.
However, the swing shows that a lot more people are moving to the Conservatives.
This will be exemplified in the tighter seats where there is only a few %age points. 11% swing to the Tories is going to have a big effect where Labour have a 3% majority.
It's more for worry stats. i.e. in a Labour strong hold, if there's swing of up to 11%, imagine on a contested seat in some other region, it'll swing more in favour of the Conservatives.
Because it gives an indication of how other seats may go
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It gives an indication of voter intentions nationally. If a safe seat is seeing massive Conservative gains, it could mean a similar picture across the country.
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I think it's because if the Tories have done so well in a Labour stronghold, then in other constituencies, where it's more marginal then it's likely the Conservatives will romp home.
Sky news sources say some polling stations (including Newcastle upon Tyne) allowed to stay open until all people have voted. I thought that was expressly prohibited. How is this fair for those turned away in other constituencies? 
I suspect they are volunteers.
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BBC raising the spectre of legal challenges to election resultsCould be the hanging chad fisasco all over again
thats just what the country need
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I was setting up a counting station network earlier today at The Parks. Just have to hope my parcel tape holds long enough 
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OMFG - I can't stand George Osborne. The idea of him as Chancellor makes me nauseous
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People are stupid.
