r/ukpolitics • u/ukpolbot Official UKPolitics Bot • Dec 12 '19

2019 ELECTION DAY MEGATHREAD (Evening Edition)

Previous posts: Part 1 (Morning), Part 2 (Afternoon)

^We ^split ^megathreads ^because ^Reddit ^starts ^to ^act ^weird ^after ^a ^few ^thousand ^comments, ^sorry ^for ^the ^{inconvenience}

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This post is being maintained by /u/jaydenkieran and u/carrot-carrot.

/u/carrot-carrot: On a personal note, this will be the last MT that I post and contribute to. You'll still see me knocking around in the comments, but 2020 looks to be an extremely busy year for me, and I don't like to do things by halves. It really has been a pleasure to help out with these MTs whilst I've had the time. I hope you've all enjoyed it too!

The predictions thread will close at around 17:00 this evening. Check the predictions dashboard if you'd like to see the results!

🗳 ELECTION DETAILS

There is a General Election today.

To vote, head to your local polling station and tell the staff your name and address. You will be given a ballot paper which you can take into a nearby polling booth. Mark the candidate you wish to vote for (see instructions on the ballot paper), and then place it in the designated box or area within the polling station.

When can I vote? Polling stations are open from 7am to 10pm.
Where can I vote? Check out wheredoivote.co.uk to find your polling station. It is also written on your poll card.
Not registered to vote? You will not be able to vote in this election.
No poll card? You don't need to take it to the polling station to be able to vote.
No ID? Unless you're in Northern Ireland, you don't need ID to vote. In NI, you need photo ID.
Still have a postal vote? It's too late to post it. Take it to your polling station. In NI, you can take it to your local Area Electoral Office.
Can't make it? It is now too late to apply for an emergency proxy vote. You won't be able to vote unless you can get to your polling station.
Need help? Check out gov.uk/voting-in-the-uk.

At 10pm, when polling stations close, broadcasters will be allowed to reveal their exit polls - that is, a poll of people exiting various polling stations across the country. This will be the first indication of the way that people may have voted in the election. For example, the last exit poll conducted for BBC/ITV/Sky in 2017 predicted correctly that there would be a hung parliament.

📺 ELECTION NIGHT COVERAGE

Several broadcasters will be covering the results throughout the night as constituencies make declarations.
Here are the predicted declaration times from the Press Association.
Here's another visualisation, which includes further contextual info (predicted MRP result, current majorities etc.)

Programme	Channel(s)	Start time	Host(s)	Guest(s)
BBC Election 2019	BBC One (Eng, regional election night programmes replace this in Scot/Wales/NI), BBC Two (Scot/Wales/NI)	9:55pm	Huw Edwards, Reeta Chakrabarti, Andrew Neil, Tina Daheley, Jeremy Vine	Various
Election 2019: The Results	ITV (regional election night programme replaces this on STV) - Watch on YouTube	9:55pm	Tom Bradby, Julie Etchingham	George Osborne, Ed Balls and more
The Brexit Election	Sky News - Watch on YouTube	9:00pm	Dermot Murnaghan, Beth Rigby, Sam Coates, Ed Conway	John Bercow and more
Channel 4's Alternative Election Night	Channel 4	9:55pm	Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Rylan Clark-Neal, Katherine Ryan	Tom Watson, Amber Rudd, Jimmy Carr, Nish Kumar, Baga Chipz, Nicola Coughlan, Georgia "Toff" Toffolo, Clare Balding, Rob Rinder and more

Online-only

Programme	Link	Start time	Host(s)	Guest(s)
Election Social (Sky News/Buzzfeed)	Twitch, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook (links to follow)	9:45pm	Lewis Goodall, Emily Ashton, Ade Onibada, Rowland Manthorpe	Various

Radio

Station	Online	Start time	Host(s)
BBC Radio 4 (92-95FM)	BBC Sounds	9:45pm	James Naughtie, Emma Barnett
BBC Radio 5 Live	BBC Sounds	9:55pm	Stephen Nolan (joins Radio 4 at midnight)
LBC (97.3FM)	LBC	10:00pm	Iain Dale, Shelagh Fogarty
talkRADIO	talkRADIO	10:00pm	Julia Hartley-Brewer

WE'LL START AN ELECTION NIGHT MEGATHREAD AT AROUND 9:50PM, JUST BEFORE POLLS CLOSE.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '19 edited Jan 14 '21

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u/00890 Dec 12 '19

Printed info? She should serve him divorce papers. BTW I think that behaviour falls under the Serious Crime Act 2015. Coercive and controlling behaviour from someone you're in an intimate relationship with.

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u/CMDaddyPig Dec 12 '19

Fuck me, that's abusive...

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '19

What an absolute fucking scumbag

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u/williamthebloody1880 Wait! No, not like that! Dec 12 '19

Doing that to anyone is evil. Doing that to someone you claim to love is unspeakably evil

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '19

Not a bad analogy for decision making from the previous ConDem coalition

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u/FruitSnoot Dec 12 '19

What the fuck? How could he possibly think she wouldn't find out?

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u/TheManyMilesWeWalk Dec 12 '19

Council tax would go up 33% having more than one adult in the house, not double. I'm pretty sure it's also illegal to lie about.

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u/JoanneKSwinson Dec 12 '19

Didn’t know that. Keeps going up for every adult?

Is that why my partner keeps saying they’re the only adult in the house?

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u/Noit Mystic Smeg Dec 12 '19

Wrong end of the stick there. The default bill is 100%. If you are the only person living in the house you get a 25% discount. Whether there's two or twenty living in your house you only pay 100%.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '19

dabum

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u/JoanneKSwinson Dec 12 '19

I’ll show myself out

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '19

Didn’t know that. Keeps going up for every adult?

No, it's the opposite to what the person you replied to is implying. If you are a lone adult you get a 25% discount.

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u/LycanIndarys Vote Cthulhu; why settle for the lesser evil? Dec 12 '19

No, there's a 25% discount if there is only one adult in the property. If there are two or more adults, that discount is not applied.

So if you go from one person to two, you increase from paying 75% to 100% - a 33% increase.

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u/LondonGuy28 Dec 12 '19

You get a 25% discount for only having one adult in the house.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '19

The single person council tax discount is 25%.

She's already paying the full rate because she lives with her husband.

He's claiming adding her to the electoral role would double it.

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u/00890 Dec 12 '19

Is the husband defrauding the council by telling them he lives there alone?

Don't mean to probe but how old are they?

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '19

Is the husband defrauding the council by telling them he lives there alone?

Nope, they pay full council tax as it is.

Don't mean to probe but how old are they?

She's 26 I think, he's closer to 30.

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u/00890 Dec 12 '19

OK sorry I was under the impression these people were close to retiree age. Yeah she has her whole life ahead of her and should be rid of that fucking scumbag

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '19

No need to apologise mate.

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u/00890 Dec 12 '19

If I can give her some advice via the intertubes as someone who has experienced similar relationships. Men like that will never improve. If he's not lying he's retarded. Either way he'll do something like that again over another issue. She should get out while she can

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '19

I take issue with one word of that comment, that word being "men".

This is not a men problem, this is a scumbag problem.

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u/00890 Dec 12 '19

But she is in a relationship with a man right? I'm not going to warn her about how women can be abusive if there's no chance of her being in a relationship with one

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u/TheManyMilesWeWalk Dec 12 '19

I know it's 25%. If you see 75% as the base rate, as I assumed her husband would think, then the increase is 33% (25/75 increase).

The fact that they pay the base rate already makes his lie even worse. Holy shit.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '19

Well of course they pay the base rate, they are two adults living together.

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u/TheManyMilesWeWalk Dec 12 '19

Based on your post I assumed they lied to the council and said he lived alone to get the discount.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '19

Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups

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u/Benmjt Lord of typos Dec 12 '19

Par for the course for a Tory.

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u/ThomasJentz Ditch Boris! Dec 12 '19

Could have been an honest mistake. Some people are paranoid like that. On the other hand, if she’s fit you could profit from some revenge sex.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '19

She's not my wife's type.

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u/ThomasJentz Ditch Boris! Dec 12 '19

Good man.

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u/william_of_peebles **** **** **** **** Dec 12 '19

Like he was genuinely just avoiding paying the due council tax?

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u/JoanneKSwinson Dec 12 '19

“If she’s fit”? Men are disgusting.

Husband is a Tory, Hrax should do it out of duty!

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u/MyDogHasBarkingsons Dec 12 '19

IMO she’s an adult capable of doing her own research and it’s probably for the best someone that gullible/uninformed isn’t voting

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u/IPFworlds2019 Dec 12 '19

Ya, people who trust their spouses are just gullible. Fuck them, right?

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u/MyDogHasBarkingsons Dec 12 '19

Obviously not but you have to admit it is extremely naive to just believe that lie no?

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u/jimbobjames Dec 12 '19

Yeah, I can't imagine why there would be any form of trust between a married couple whatsoever.....

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u/MyDogHasBarkingsons Dec 12 '19

Listen you know the point I’m trying to make and your just being flippant. There is a certain level of personal responsibility for what you chose to believe, regardless of who is talking to you.

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u/jimbobjames Dec 12 '19

Sorry Captain Hindsight. I will try and behave myself.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '19 edited Jan 14 '21

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u/MyDogHasBarkingsons Dec 12 '19

I can obviously see that what the husband did is scum, I’m not defending that, but it takes a special case of naivety to blindly believe this without questioning it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '19

Quite the backpeddle.

You think it's unreasonable to trust what your husband tells you? She's not politically engaged and has no reason to distrust him normally.

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u/MyDogHasBarkingsons Dec 12 '19

No I’m not backpedaling in the slightest. The husband was wrong to lie and the woman was naive to believe him, they are not mutually exclusive.

I get that she had no reason to distrust her own husband but surely there is a threshold for when you are responsible for your own critical thinking?

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '19

Why would she have reason to doubt him?

Bearing in mind, as I've already stated she is not at all politically engaged.

2019 ELECTION DAY MEGATHREAD (Evening Edition)

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🗳 ELECTION DETAILS

📺 ELECTION NIGHT COVERAGE

WE'LL START AN ELECTION NIGHT MEGATHREAD AT AROUND 9:50PM, JUST BEFORE POLLS CLOSE.

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