Ne'er get thee stitched til Booris be ditched: UK General Election 2019

Feeling pretty pessimistic but at least I can laugh at Chris Leslie losing his seat here.

reports of very high turnout in lanark and hamilton east - the tightest three way marginal in the uk.

swinging wildly between hope for a hung parliament and crushing depression at the loss of one of the last chances we might have to affect real change before societal collapse

As I go to my Polling Station tomorrow, I'll remind myself this. 10 years ago when I properly started challenging immigration detention, there were only two MPs whom we knew we could count on their support. They were John McDonnell & Jeremy Corbyn.

— Eiri Ohtani (@EiriOhtani) December 11, 2019

One of the activists I met on my canvass left Labour over this and rejoined after Corbyn became leader

Starting on a pint soon. It will go higher.

that tweet just made me tear up - bodes well for a controlled, mature response to the exit poll

I’m drinking Jim Beam out of an empty jar of sweets. Might go to bed before the exit poll.

I've just won £132.30 on the Spanish Lotto DareToDream#

ok folks i'm off to bed, i leave everything in yr wise hands

Bye :)

If I like the exit poll enough I may pop to my local for one - exhausted already tho

was feeling better for a minute there but now worried that calz might have pilfered all the available good luck for his spanish lotto windfall

🐦[Thousands of people are being turned away from polling stations for not having their polling card or ID. This is ILLEGAL! You don’t need either a polling card or ID to vote! 1. Get back down there and insist on voting, and 2. Report it to the electoral commission
— Eleanor Penny is voting Labour 🌹 (@eleanorkpenny) December 12, 2019🕸]🐦

I say this with the weary resignation of someone who has been burned before: congratulations on your win, calzino

Every cloud

Tories and LibDems both saying Labour's ground game in London is absolutely vast and they have flooded activists to all seats, knocking up every door

LibDems fear Labour have stopped Luciana Berger winning in Finchley and possibly Chuka Umunna in Cities — keeping both seats Tory

— Alex Wickham (@alexwickham) December 12, 2019

Just voted. Busier than I've ever seen it. No dogs, a fair amount of gammon. Bar a few melt LDs, my echo chamber is so overwhelmingly Labour I've half convinced myself it's going to be OK. It's not, is it?

the Berxit tweet has drilled a new little worm hole in my brain

— Sarah Jones (@onesarahjones) December 12, 2019

Just caught up with this. Downing a good gulp now..

I've already withdrawn my spanish lotto winnings before I get drunk + start thinking of dumb ideas of how to treble it

Just went down the road and got solidarity vibes from the cashiers at Sainsbury’s - both hijabis, both had voted , both going mad they weren’t allowed to look at phones on duty. I told them about the Uxbridge rumours and they started beaming.

pleaassse make it happen

Can't imagine why you'd be in trouble. You've looked after those constituents like they were your own children.

— Frankie Boyle (@frankieboyle) December 12, 2019

sometimes even Frankie Boyle is good

feel sick
― tony blair electric chair (||||||||), Thursday, 12 December 2019 19:26 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

He was on the same literature course at Sussex with a load of my friends. He was a) good people and b) always super-obviously going to be famous for comedy.

frankie boyle is good

Knocked on a door in Newport West today - elderly couple late70s/80s, went to vote Labour, missed their bus, walked all the way to the polling station - she said it was furthest she'd walked since she'd had her stroke but she had to vote. Made me want to cry tbh. #UKelection2019

— Sol Gamsu (@SolGamsu) December 12, 2019

Heartwarming as all these stories are, imma have have to disregard them unless I hear from an ILXor who lives in a Midlands shithole.

Lab Majority dropped again to 16/1

Not sure why you're picking on the Midlands when the South is a much bigger bunch of blue-arse scumbags.

xp

grrrrggggg nnnnggggghhh

really should just go to bed or stare at a pot

but no

I'd stand Lab Majority at 100/1 all night long. So not happening.

What was Lab majority before?! xxp

Put a few quid on Lab minority at 8-1 two days ago and it’s the same now

It was 33/1 a week or two ago, then was 28/1 and 25/1. Today its been 20/1 and 16/1 (confusingly both prices are listed at Ladbrokes)

Not sure on other bookies. Movement hasn't really been that much, Lab Minority is currently 5/1

Finally home and queuing to vote at the polling station on my estate. There are at least 200 people here.

bookie odds mean fuck all. just what people are betting on.

where's that, BF

https://media.tenor.com/images/9c96fac56aa11b2d1348ba1a041fc2b3/tenor.gif

had a sneak look at the results and I wish I could tell you all but eh, group hug time you guys

Cossall Park in Peckham xp

About as safe a Lab seat as there is. A tory govt is an actual existential threat to most of the people here and none of their votes make any difference, it’s bullshit.

My sister in Leeds: "Voted, but not hopeful. :("

i know there's nothing to talk about yet but Sky's "coverage" is abysmal rn

Not sure why you're picking on the Midlands when the South is a much bigger bunch of blue-arse scumbags.

xp

Yeah, but I expect more from the Midlands (and North).

The future starts in five minutes, shitting it rn tbqhwy

1 minute from my polling station, M16.

https://i.imgur.com/SyBZSJL.jpg

my postal ballot didn't come in the end :-(

(sheffield central, doesn't matter IIUC)

I’m prepared for the absolute worst but we will win the war, even if they win the battle.

no sign of laurak on bbc or did i miss her? nm just announced

boyle calling boris 3G Wodehouse was good

Here we go...

Fuck