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There is much more youth engagement than I have ever seen before. The lass from little mix tweeted about it and in as little as 10 minutes had hundreds of replies about voting labour and voting for the first time. Its not just the grime artists.
Not sure it will be enough mind, but getting the young out to vote is a good thing whatever happens.
I always do this.Spent like a whole minute checking I put a cross next to the correct name
Scary stuff!
So it turns out my Lib Dem is basically useless
So I will be voting Labour
So I will be voting Labour
All you first time voters out there - you did bring a pen, right?
There was a minor queue when I went to vote, about the same as it was at the referendum - obviously it doesn't mean anything, but hopefully the youth vote has remained engaged.
I spoke to my sister and that's the first thing she said, doesn't trust them them* apparently.
*Whoever they are
Have seen a lot of tweets saying there are long queues at universities.
Are you even allowed to use a pen?
*The HB illuminati.I spoke to my sister and that's the first thing she said, doesn't trust them them* apparently.
*Whoever they are
I don't see why not.
Because they* wouldn't just ignore that one and move onto the next?I spoke to my sister and that's the first thing she said, doesn't trust them them* apparently.
*Whoever they are
*Whoever they are
It does seem like we should all be given pens though, just for the safty of democracies sake
So after criticising Corbyn because of how important it is we have a Labour government JK Rowling endorses Jess Phillips and the Liberal Democrats.
Well done.
Well done.
God no.
If you so wish, sure.
Me and three old fellas at the poling station, one of them had a Bolshie glint in his eye though.
This is like my fifth trip to the polling station since I could start voting in 2014, fecking madness.
Sounds like a 60's cover band you get in the local of a sunday night.
On a single anecdotal piece of evidence the left wing hysteria on social media seems to be being replicated in reality. My other half was physically assaulted a few hours ago outside a polling station for asking what turned out to be a Labour supporter what they're polling number was (she works for a Conservative MP so was asked to be a "teller" this AM).
She endorsed Jess Phillips almost immediately after retweeting a thread about the abuse Diane Abbott gets. She's simply beyond parody.
Very dead where I voted. It was middle of the day though, so it might be nothing.
nothing wrong with using the pencil provided.
Noob.nothing wrong with using the pencil provided.
I just had to google what a teller is, I've voted my whole life and never once been asked outside the polling centre what my polling number was. I'd definitely have told them to mind their own fecking business. That's one of the shit things about our UK political system, its never really just clearly explained to potential voters how it all works. I'm a full on politics nerd and have been for over 20 years, so if I didn't know about this, then someone voting for the first time isn't likely to either.
It's pretty standard, nothing partisan and certainly nothing to get violent about.
No-one should ever get violent of course, but if I've never seen it happen in over 20 years of voting, then its not that standard. Perhaps they only bother in potential swing constituencies?
Why was she doing that?
Are you in St. Helens North or South?
I voted at 7.30ish. Was about five voters there and I was the youngest by at least three decades.
Must differ from place to place, I've had it at every (even local) election. All they're doing is tracking turnout.
That's the perfect time to casually say 'Oh my god, I can't believe that Theresa May wants to ban Custard Creams AND Werthers Originals'. Worth a shot.
Yeah, I've never seen it happen either though I've only started voting since 2010 (when I was first eligible to vote).
If you've never seen it before though, and you're already edgy about vote tampering, you can understand why it could freak people out. Not to the point of violence though of course.
My constituency is one of the ones that have always been Labour. Labour candidate got 57% of the vote in 2015.I vote in Bolsover now which has never been anything other than red! I'll keep trying though!
Only time will defeat the beast of bolsover. No tory ever will
I've never seen it either.
Some rumours that the Tories were thinking they had a chance there, but Skinner's personal vote must be pretty hard to beat.I vote in Bolsover now which has never been anything other than red! I'll keep trying though!
Forgot to say, thanks for putting it on, and well worded.