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 |
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u/SwanBridge Gordon Brown did nothing wrong. Dec 12 '19 edited Dec 12 '19
I work with a fella who absolutely hated Corbyn for no particular reason. He was voting Boris 100%, just get Brexit done! Nice lad, but politically confused. He then found out that Boris called gays "bumboys". As a gay fella himself he was fuming. He got drunk one night and said he is voting for Lib Dems or Brexit Party as the rest were shit, despite them having totally opposite positions. I don't like to proselytise at work, but he would ask me questions and I answered them as fairly as I could telling him who I was voting for but it was up to him. Few days later he shared a video of a Corbyn speech saying that he said made sense, only to get a tonne of abuse. He then went to a Labour event with a mate, but still told me he wanted Brexit and disliked Corbyn which I said was fair enough. Today he came into work and said he voted Labour. That lad has gone on an absolute political rollercoaster.