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Very quiet on here considering it is election day...
no it’s not you are making a noise!
I've only got some bullshit training day at work tomorrow so I'll be up late tonight. I'll be able to coffee myself through tomorrow. 
We are all just waiting for 10 and the reporting to commence.
I feel more optimistic right now than I have in the whole election.
I feel more optimistic right now than I have in the whole election.
Just put a very cheeky £10 at 37/1 on Betfair for a Labour Majority. Won't happen, but got £10 at 2/1 on a hung parliament too to get my money back.
I would pay you the 370 to get that majority!
And nobody will have any money anyway if conservatives win and deliver Brexit, so no downside!
So if the Tories get a majority you'll be even more unhappy than the rest of us.
Just been round to my 84 year old neighbour and she has always been a Tory voter.
This time has voted Labour. She is worried what sort of country her grandchildren and great-grandchildren will be left with "once this lot of liars have finished with it"
This time has voted Labour. She is worried what sort of country her grandchildren and great-grandchildren will be left with "once this lot of liars have finished with it"
You say that but I can't see a single party propping up the Tories if they don't get a majority.
I am fully expecting to break even and get my money back. Can't see me making a profit from it....but stranger things have happened.
The trouble is Beddy, it won't be over if the Tories do get in again. That is the big lie they are peddling. It will just be the start of years of wrangling and the UK ending up with worse trade deals than we have now.
My son is tactically voting for Lib Dem in Eastleigh.
They were second in 2017, but 14000 votes adrift.
11000 Labour voters, plus a few thousand Tory remainers switching is probably a little bit too much to expect.
They were second in 2017, but 14000 votes adrift.
11000 Labour voters, plus a few thousand Tory remainers switching is probably a little bit too much to expect.
And potentially a no deal Brexit which would be catastrophic.
I mean the Tories might not be able to afford to meet all of their manifesto pledges.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/ukne...ess-on-uk-election/ar-AAK3LIR?ocid=spartanntp
Germany
German media have been unusually blunt in their assessment of the level of debate and particularly scathing in their assessment of Johnson. “The country is moving into a new era,” wrote Cathrin Kahlweit in a leader for Süddeutsche Zeitung, a broadly left-leaning broadsheet. “It will become more insular, cultivate a less civil form of patriotism, inflict more harm on minorities. Necessary reforms – a new electoral law, a written constitution, better public services – are likely to be postponed.”
The centre-right broadsheet Die Welt wrote that Johnson’s promise to “get Brexit done” would “blow up in his face”. It added: “He keeps quiet about the fact that the hard part [of the negotiations] only starts after the withdrawal.”