2015 UK General Election campaign & aftermath discussion thread.

I'm in the East End of Glasgow (and I should've called them the 'Cannabis is Safer Than Alcohol' party)

We've got one of them in Paisley & Renfrewshire North as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_Is_Safer_Than_Alcohol#Scotland

i live abroad & despite applying months ago and receiving a confirmation letter, i never received my postal ballot. fuck you tower hamlets

saw many people complaining about this on twitter - it's par for the course. tower hamlets council doesn't respond to contact of any form - i mean literally, you can't phone them, they don't answer emails, they just send letters and absorb your responses into the void.

London-based folk: any suggestions on good (non-partisan) communal places to watch the results come in? I don't have a TV at home and the radio doesn't quite cut it. Availability of alcohol (or indeed cannabis) not essential.

Non-partisan? Christ, can you imagine being in a pub with Tories if they're winning?

quite impressed by how many candidates the cannabis is safer than alcohol party have managed to put forward, maybe by the next election they'll be the ukip of the left

They certainly wouldn't get my vote, I detest that puritanical anti-drinking "My high is better than your high" line of argument. Fucking hippies.

Folk acquainted with Paisley will not be surprised to hear that our Cannabis Is Safer Than Alcohol candidate is a resident of Ferguslie Park.

Our LibDem never put his address on the ballot paper. Our Tory has been imported from the Borders.

One single canvasser outside the polling station, a really smiley Nat. Labour left a sandwich board. Nothing from any the rest of them.

https://twitter.com/RuthDavidsonMSP/status/596286509629763584

She hasn't provided any proof has she?

saw this on twitter

http://i.imgur.com/038gKiO.jpg

I'm voting for the 'Losing a little toe is safer than losing a little finger party'

hmmm
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/07/protest-oust-david-cameron-tories-occupy-downing-street-election

what 'certain party' is she referring to? xps

good luck uk

political folk song of the year

Sack Esther McVey - Alun Parry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi9XM-GtPhI

hopefully "The wicked witch of the Wirral's had her day"

She would be my #1 choice if i could choose which tory lost a seat (assuming someone else picked IDS)

done the deed.
feel a bit dirty now.
also, found out on that our 'local' labour candidate lives 100 miles from here.
probably has never even visited out little town.
guess that just indicates that labour have no interest in fighting for this bluer than blue area.

Actual IRL LOL: our local Cannabis Party candidate is named Artificial Beast.

I almost voted for him, solely because of that. (But no, he wasn't even local.)

Artifical Beast is his DJ name apparently. Any fucking money he's a psytrance DJ.

https://yournextmp.com/numbers/parties

some of the fringe parties on here are brilliant, if i wasn't already too giggly and excitable i'd be polling this shit.

three words: Vapers in Power

Beer, Baccy and Scratchings ftw

Beer, Baccy and Scratchings Are Not Safer Than Cannabis

Come on you reds

We will also push to end the dangerous situation whereby 5V chargers and 4.2V chargers can be used interchangeably

http://www.mydochub.com/images/pippa-middleton-bum.jpg

so this looks like the usual MRA whining but the pledges under "As well as..." did me make me laugh out loud at work this afty

http://static.wixstatic.com/media/36eaa6_ada7ebc5e3fc45a389cfaa3efa482816.jpg_srz_p_375_489_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srz

Capitalizaton of It is a neat touch.

Most crazy candidate standing in the election, meet..

Susan-Anne White's Biblically Correct Independent Manifesto
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/04/27/criminalise-homosexuality-ban-abortion-and-punish-adultery-susan-anne-whites-biblically-correct-independent-manifesto_n_7152856.html?1430150232

Crazy Ultra Conservative Christian manifesto by Susan-Anne White standing in Northern Ireland

read the details of a stir crazy mix manifesto of... back to the trad social conservative 1950s + B-N-P + UKIP get out of Europe + US Christian Fundamentalists inc. No Abortion, No Adultery + Putin's Anti-Gay Russia + Britain First Anti-Islam + climate change deniers + Woman stays in the Kitchen / Home, Man is the Breadwinner

I'm interested in the idea of building a 1960s housing estate in the 21st century, has a sort of town planner Pierre Menard vibe.

Then put new road signs up. XD

t/s - religious bigotry or trivializing mental illness

quite impressed by how many candidates the cannabis is safer than alcohol party have managed to put forward

Actual lols in the voting booth.

What did the hamlet of Dean ever do to Bobby Smith?

(i assume the sad answer is that his evil ex lives there, but who knows?)

Was going to say, I can guess what family lawyers have done to him.

£7 an hour pay cap still made me lol

useful later? http://principalfish.co.uk/election2015/live/

Will be if there's none of these left when I pop out: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206892407567317&set=a.3105108545281.159477.1191270660&type=1

Trying that again: https://igcdn-photos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/t51.2885-15/11226676_786658638114686_1522245739_n.jpg

Folk acquainted with Paisley will not be surprised to hear that our Cannabis Is Safer Than Alcohol candidate is a resident of Ferguslie Park.

why is he standing in Paisley North not Paisley South? Granted, we don't even have a Green candidate here, but still...

some anecdotal suggestions that turnout has been good?

My local polling station was mobbed (relatively).

Mine said when i went after 2 that turnout had been good but way down on the referendum(95% voted there last year) but he said still a good turnout based on previous ones plus it would get really busy later on when people finish work.

i saw two other people voting in govan which is a better turnout than i've ever seen here

71% had voted at my polling station with an hour to go.

betfred paid up on tories getting most seats an hour ago. Assume there must be an exit poll

Jesus, BBC exit poll:

Tories 316
Labour 239
SNP 58
Lib Dems 10

... garbage surely?

how wrong can it be?