Election 2019 - Week 5 - Page 11

heero_yuy · 12-12-2019, 09:38

We got out and voted around 7:30 this morning before the OH went off to work. Fairly busy at the polling station.

mrmistoffelees · 12-12-2019, 09:41

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Originally Posted by Chris

Give them a chance, they still need to crawl out of bed and stagger down to their local artisan coffee house for a vegan soya latte and mashed avocado. Once they’re properly awake they’ll share a few snarky memes via the social media channel of the moment, then decide that ought to be accepted as their act of political engagement, and head to the student union bar. Three shots for a fiver tonight, election night special.

Talk about sweeping generalisations !!!

jonbxx · 12-12-2019, 09:59

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Originally Posted by Hugh

CF’ers may find this of interest.

https://public.tableau.com/profile/c...433110/Timings

That is brilliant! Good data presentation/visualisation is a real art (off topic but check out https://informationisbeautiful.net/ )

So, I voted at about ten past 7 this morning and the people in the polling station noted how many voters had turned up already. It was more than they were used to so maybe turnout will be good.

My constituency is a little odd as we have a new candidate for the Conservatives in a safe seat due to David Gauke being thrown out. Gauke is in with a shout as an independent though being firmly in second place in the polling

**Chris** · 12-12-2019, 10:05

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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees

Talk about sweeping generalisations !!!

Ok ...

Satire relies for its effect on the caricaturing of certain people or situations, in order to draw attention to, and to critique, certain patterns of behaviour or beliefs. In its deliberate exaggeration it is prone to making sweeping generalisations, though those engaging with the satire are generally expected to understand it is not offered, nor to be taken, literally.

Have I talked enough?

papa smurf · 12-12-2019, 10:07

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Originally Posted by Chris

Ok ...

Satire relies for its effect on the caricaturing of certain people or situations, in order to draw attention to, and to critique, certain patterns of behaviour or beliefs. In its deliberate exaggeration it is prone to making sweeping generalisations, though those engaging with the satire are generally expected to understand it is not offered, nor to be taken, literally.

Have I talked enough?

You should know better, it's 4 shots for a fiver

TheDaddy · 12-12-2019, 15:25

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

I haven't seen the documents, but I did witness reporters questioning the claims Corbyn was making. They said that in all the 400+ pages it only mentioned the NHS four times and that there was no mention of privatisation. But Corbyn doesn't care. He knows that if you throw enough mud around, some of it will stick. You seem to have proved that in your conversion.

Did you consider that's the reason why the nhs was only mentioned 4 times, other nuggets in there include advice on the pr campaign to prepare the public for clorinated chicken

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Why you have only just discovered that people lie, I cannot fathom. Where have you been locked away from the real world all these years? And how does voting for Corbyn solve anything? Of course, if chaos, anarchy and the destruction of our way of life is what you want to see, you are going the right way about it.

Why are you prepared to accept people lying to you, I can't fathom why you're happy to be mugged of every few years without a murmur, what's deficient in your psyche and personality to not only accept it but advocate for these people. The journey here has taken a few years either it's taken decades of not holding the shysters to account to get this far down the sewer, how much further do you want to ascend, when is enough enough for you?

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Originally Posted by jonbxx

That is brilliant! Good data presentation/visualisation is a real art (off topic but check out https://informationisbeautiful.net/ )

So, I voted at about ten past 7 this morning and the people in the polling station noted how many voters had turned up already. It was more than they were used to so maybe turnout will be good.

My constituency is a little odd as we have a new candidate for the Conservatives in a safe seat due to David Gauke being thrown out. Gauke is in with a shout as an independent though being firmly in second place in the polling

I went at lunchtime, I was the only one there but when I put my slip in the box was pretty full, saw a blast from the past on the ballot paper to

**Chris** · 12-12-2019, 16:13

Well I have had electoral communications from the Scottish Tories four times in the last week, one of them hand delivered. The other parties, including the SNP who must fancy their chances here as the sitting Tory’s majority is so small, have only sent out one mailing. At the polling station, Labour didn’t even bother to show up with a standard a-frame advert to prop up outside, which, I have a sneaking suspicion, means they might actually be keeping out of the way to let the SNP take the seat back off the Tories.

Shocking, if so, as they are still supposed to be a unionist party and every election in Scotland at the moment is about the union v independence in one way or another.

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Edit ... on reflection I think I might actually have had 5 leaflets from the Tories this week

**Hugh** · 12-12-2019, 17:33

Perhaps it was just your neighbours putting the leaflets they had received, through your letterbox...

**Damien** · 12-12-2019, 20:14

Pound is shooting up apparently. Could be traders have their own exit polling, could be nonsense.

**Chris** · 12-12-2019, 20:23

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Originally Posted by Damien

Pound is shooting up apparently. Could be traders have their own exit polling, could be nonsense.

Traders follow traders, and at critical times like this they are all liable to jump on any flicker and follow suit. The EU referendum did similar, remember, until the result became clear and it dropped like a stone.

We would know if someone else was conducting an exit poll anyway, they are highly visible, complex and expensive to do. The whole polling industry would know it was going on.

**Damien** · 12-12-2019, 20:25

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Originally Posted by Chris

Traders follow traders, and at critical times like this they are all liable to jump on any flicker and follow suit. The EU referendum did similar, remember, until the result became clear and it dropped like a stone.

We would know if someone else was conducting an exit poll anyway, they are highly visible, complex and expensive to do. The whole polling industry would know it was going on.

Yeah, I remember well on the day that around 3pm the pound surged.

**Chris** · 12-12-2019, 20:30

Anyway I’m thoroughly bored of the election now. I’d quite like some results.

Julian · 12-12-2019, 20:37

What's the thoughts on Laura's comments earlier?

Are we potentially entering Gina Miller's territory if Boris wins?

**Chris** · 12-12-2019, 20:40

What comments?

**Damien** · 12-12-2019, 20:47

If he means Laura Kuenssberg she is at the centre of another Twitter/Reddit scandal where she stated that she was told postal votes where looking bad for Labour. Le Internet lawyers decided she had broken the law and went into full outrage mode.

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Originally Posted by Chris

Give them a chance, they still need to crawl out of bed and stagger down to their local artisan coffee house for a vegan soya latte and mashed avocado. Once they’re properly awake they’ll share a few snarky memes via the social media channel of the moment, then decide that ought to be accepted as their act of political engagement, and head to the student union bar. Three shots for a fiver tonight, election night special.

Missed this, don't diss artisan coffee houses