UK General Election Day and Results: 'Parliament is Well Hung.' - Polidicks

[QUOTE=MissZoey;52323584]Anyone gonna post a results thread or should we just keep this general thread for it? While I DO have an exam tomorrow so I won't be up that late, I should be able to post results until about 11, which will definitely have the final exit polls up, and I can update in the morning.[/QUOTE] Maybe keep it here and have a mod update the thread title to reflect that the results are in and just how fucked we are based on them?

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeuH7FG9mSA[/media] I'm not ready for 10pm tomorrow :( :(

[QUOTE=ferrus;52323292]Where would you go?[/QUOTE] Well, looking at my options very carefully, my qualifications, my finances and prospects. Narnia, or Cloud Cuckoo Land

Tomorrow is going to be a fucking nightmare.

Tomorrow will be fine for the most part. The 24 hours after the results are first announced, now that is going to be rough.

26 hours from now, we will have seen and digested the exit poll

So frustrating that all of my family members will be voting Tory As a member of the NHS it's killing me that they've voting against me Even my (labour) sister will be at mum's house on election day - and she's not registered to vote there ARGH

I'm legit worried what this country will be like in five years if the tories win. The coalition was bad, but everything post GE 2015 has been awful. Malicious and/or moronic policies, and such severe cuts across the board that I find myself wondering not [B]if[/B] we're headed for large scale disaster involving our health or emergency services being unable to cope, but when, and furthermore, will we recognise the breaking point, or just continue to sail on while the vulnerable and less visible in our society suffer and ultimately perish? The tories don't even have the pretense of decent policy and a strong (if robotic) leader this time around. [editline] [/editline] Just looking at our current situation, I've enjoyed reading about the election campaigns here and elsewhere on the Internet, tomorrow I'll head to my polling station before slinking off for a pint or two to weather the results coming in overnight. What will my experience be in five years? Will my pre-election information be screened by Ofcom's new Wholesome and Christian Internet regulations, where anything against conservative party lines is hidden by default, and I need to pay an opt-in fee to my ISP to enable 'explicit' content such as youtubers who swear and lewd anime avatars on facepunch? Will I even vote next time? After all, none of the things I've voted for have ever won, and maybe the voter ID registration process is expensive and frustrating. Perhaps I can't find the time to register because I have to work six days a week on commission, putting in 12 hour days without a basic wage due to having to register as self-employed by the company. It's worrying to consider. Obviously the examples I've provided there are extreme results to the conservative manifesto. It probably won't be that bad, but I doubt it'll be that far off.

I'm poor [i] and[/i] I have a disability. I'm not even being dramatic when I say I doubt I will survive another few years under the conservatives.

[QUOTE=fulgrim;52324207]I'm poor [i] and[/i] I have a disability. I'm not even being dramatic when I say I doubt I will survive another few years under the conservatives.[/QUOTE] Ah man that's shit. And SuperLoz, people really don't seem to understand that this vote affects people close to them. I'm about to support my girlfriend returning to university. It's going to cost £27,000 over 3 years, which we are paying (about £1000 we have to find ourselves per year) with the maintenance grant. However that means I am effectively supporting her alone for 3 years with no support. I've told my parents this but they don't care their son is going to be in poverty for 3/4 years, they are still voting conservative.

Wow, whatever happens UK-wide, Labour accomplished the dream in Wales [media]https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/872503470401650696[/media]

Fuck it, lets have some semi-positives to the end. [media]https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/872545556727558145[/media]

[video]https://youtu.be/V5Fw51s7aoU[/video]

well if nothing else i think Jeremy's done a pretty good job of attracting lib dem and green voters to the party, which is not something you could have said before this dumb little election was called

[QUOTE=Cone;52324463]well if nothing else i think Jeremy's done a pretty good job of attracting lib dem and green voters to the party, which is not something you could have said before this dumb little election was called[/QUOTE] It's also exposed just how fucking corrupt the Conservative government is even more.

[QUOTE=fulgrim;52324207]I'm poor [i] and[/i] I have a disability. I'm not even being dramatic when I say I doubt I will survive another few years under the conservatives.[/QUOTE] I have a disability that means that my left side ain't that useful. I have worked since I was 16 but particularly labour-intensive jobs like shelf stacking or site labouring is off the list as I'm not able to work effectively/safely in those jobs. However if I was on Jobseeker's I would be needing to apply and work those kinds of jobs nowadays, even though it's super fuckin' likely that I'd end up hurting myself or damaging stock simply because I don't have the physical strength for stuff like that. The disability assessors are idiots.

[QUOTE=Grizz;52323656][media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeuH7FG9mSA[/media] I'm not ready for 10pm tomorrow :( :([/QUOTE] i was just listening to this cover what the fuck if i wasn't in dictatorship land and instead in tory land i'd vote for labour

So, now that evil cunt May will stay in power, is suicide the best way out? I think so laddies. [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Terrible post" - Kiwi))[/highlight]

[QUOTE=Cone;52324463]well if nothing else i think Jeremy's done a pretty good job of attracting lib dem and green voters to the party, which is not something you could have said before this dumb little election was called[/QUOTE] Yeah you have to hand it to Corbyn, given where Labour was when the election was called, this campaign could not have gone much better

[QUOTE=Bob The Knob;52324622]Yeah you have to hand it to Corbyn, given where Labour was when the election was called, this campaign could not have gone much better[/QUOTE] Agreed, no matter the result if it matches the polls it's a victory. Just gotta get our vote out, convince as many people as possible so we can do maximum damage to the tories. If they get a reduced or even the same majority it is a victory as this will destroy May and end her authoritarian reign.

[QUOTE=Shadow801;52324634]Agreed, no matter the result if it matches the polls it's a victory. Just gotta get our vote out, convince as many people as possible so we can do maximum damage to the tories. If they get a reduced or even the same majority it is a victory as this will destroy May and end her authoritarian reign.[/QUOTE] May's leadership of the party would surely be in question if there was a reduced majority, don't know if there would be an actual challenge but especially considering the very top-down way in which she reportedly ran this campaign, I imagine lots of Conservatives would be absolutely furious Reduced majority seems unlikely though given that the majority was already pretty small though - it's a very small needle to thread between a slightly larger majority and a hung parliament

[QUOTE=ZombieDawgs;52324492]It's also exposed just how fucking corrupt the Conservative government is even more.[/QUOTE] tbh even if the Conservatives increase their majority i still think calling this election was pretty dumb of May. if she'd just waited Corbyn might not have even made it to 2020, and the vote would have been totally split anyway. instead it's turned out he can dominate a news cycle and swing polls about 17 points in his favor over a couple months. whoops.

I've at least gotten to enjoy how embarrassingly terrible the Tory campaign has been, but I'm remaining hopeful as the polls have had a bad track record for being completely wrong in recent years.

[QUOTE=AimlessGiant;52324654]I've at least gotten to enjoy how embarrassingly terrible the Tory campaign has been, but I'm remaining hopeful as the polls have had a bad track record for being completely wrong in recent years.[/QUOTE] Usually a tory swing though. [editline]7th June 2017[/editline] Not sure if anyone has seen the papers for tomorrow they are on the live feed. [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/election-2017-40157259[/url] I really want to understand why they are able to get away from this, why are they allowed to do this on polling day? In fact why are they able to tell people who to vote for at all, this seems wrong to me.

Can we pass tabloid regulation laws or something? Like an independent council that sets media publishing standards for this kind of shit? Newspapers are absolutely worthless and disgusting pieces of blatant propaganda.

[QUOTE=ZombieDawgs;52324711]Can we pass tabloid regulation laws or something? Like an independent council that sets media publishing standards for this kind of shit? Newspapers are absolutely worthless and disgusting pieces of blatant propaganda.[/QUOTE] Couldn't this constitute infringing on freedom of the press? Also that 'blatant propaganda' is just a political bias and is present in everything, even an 'independent council'. Won't solve a thing

[QUOTE=Cabbage;52324732]Couldn't this constitute infringing on freedom of the press? Also that 'blatant propaganda' is just a political bias and is present in everything, even an 'independent council'. Won't solve a thing[/QUOTE] The one thing I would appreciate is stronger correction laws, i.e. if your whole front page is based on a lie then you should have to post a whole front page correction, and similarly stories like [QUOTE=FRONT PAGE]CORBYN PLANS TO BAN CHILDREN [speculation] turn to page 10 for more [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=MIDDLE OF PAPER] [speculation] oh labour say this is not true. [/QUOTE] should not be allowed.

[QUOTE=ZombieDawgs;52324711]Can we pass tabloid regulation laws or something? Like an independent council that sets media publishing standards for this kind of shit? Newspapers are absolutely worthless and disgusting pieces of blatant propaganda.[/QUOTE] I think throwing Rupert Murdoch in a concrete lined pit filled with sewage, snakes and spiders would be a start.

boys I'm gonna jump up and down with happiness and get pissed ta fuck if Labour pull a hung parliament or better. We can hope lads, get out tomorrow and vote, do what you can.

[QUOTE=Cabbage;52324732]Couldn't this constitute infringing on freedom of the press? Also that 'blatant propaganda' is just a political bias and is present in everything, even an 'independent council'. Won't solve a thing[/QUOTE] I would say headlines like this on polling day are an exception We're not even allowed to campaign within a certain amount of meters from polling stations and the national parties are not allowed to campaign either. Why are newspapers excluded from that considering most are just party mouthpieces?