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General Election
From: milko
8 Jun 2017 20:04
To: william (WILLIAMA)
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That is a really good post. Thanks. For what little it's worth!
From: Voltane
8 Jun 2017 20:37
To: ALL
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I voted.
A friend of mine, however, hasn't been able to. He registered to vote and got a confirmation email but no polling card. Went to the polling station and he's not on the list.
Rang the council and his application was put to some department that "on the basis of information he gave in his application" was denied.
He's not got a criminal record and through admin errors has served jury duty twice.
So you can decide who is a murderer or not but still might not be allowed to vote!
I've told him to get in touch with the papers. Especially as they couldn't even give a reason as to why he's not been put on the list.
From: william (WILLIAMA)
8 Jun 2017 23:13
To: milko
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Nah - I'm just some sort of slack-jawed commie liberal. I think I need to stop thinking about this stuff for a while and be a bit more positive.
The BBC has always been split which means that the Play for Today dramatists found a home at the same time as the News Service was supporting the status quo and music editors were banning records. I do feel quite sad about the collapse of any sort of strong independent, investigative journalism in the BBC. They really have merged into a kind of Times/Telegraph flavour with a bitter seasoning of Kuenssberg bile. Perhaps I'll stick to re-runs of Cheers.
Incidentally, while I write this I'm watching the election night programme on ITV (we're flipping around) and Gerry Adams is being interviewed. They've totally screwed the video feed so his voice is several seconds out of sync leading to the hilarious effect that his words are still being voiced by an actor.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
9 Jun 2017 00:10
To: william (WILLIAMA)
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Actually that was very well put. Anyhoo the Guardian says exit polls are pointing to a hung parliament -- presumably meaning too close to call. Well, that was unexpected!
EDITED: 9 Jun 2017 00:11 by DSMITHHFX
From: william (WILLIAMA)
9 Jun 2017 00:38
To: Voltane
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There seems to have been several of these fuck-ups. The Newcastle-under-Lyme result isn't in yet but it's a marginal and at least 50 voters have turned up with voter registration cards who aren't on the lists. Same in Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport where the council not only screwed up the voting lists but also postal votes
and the current Tory majority is 523.
From: william (WILLIAMA)
9 Jun 2017 00:44
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
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I'm always on tenterhooks about these things and I can't trust myself to believe good news. I won't relax until the results are all in.
That said, I have my fingers crossed for Hastings just along the coast from me where my son lives. It's the Home Secretary's constituency and she appears to have called for a recount - which means she must have lost the first count. Apparently the local Labour party are very happy which suggests we aren't looking at 1 or 2 votes difference.
From: ANT_THOMAS
9 Jun 2017 05:04
To: william (WILLIAMA)
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She held, but only by 346. That would have been a huge loss.
From: Voltane
9 Jun 2017 07:40
To: william (WILLIAMA)
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Our constituency held as Tory, but by about 365 votes.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
9 Jun 2017 09:39
To: william (WILLIAMA)
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I was very very surprised this morning!
From: Manthorp
9 Jun 2017 09:48
To: ALL
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Well, I didn't see that one coming!