#19

Silver linings to consider in the face of the inevitable/unthinkable [delete as appropriate]:

  • May’s days are numbered
  • The Tory party has been shown to be a joke
  • A LOT of people have realised that things COULD be better
  • This feeling won’t just disappear
  • ALL empires crumble, eventually
  • The tabloids are run by psycopaths, they speak only for themselves and do not necessarily reflect “the voice of the people”
  • Greece has told us that the EU has ways of making it extremely difficult for rogue states to get their way, and I am now convinced that there’s no way we’ll leave without a deal
  • Your world can be magnificent if you’re nice to people

Obvious thing to point out - they can do a lot of damage between now and whenever we next get a say. But that’s always been the case, and the most hopeful part of my stupid brain is now telling me that they won’t get away with lying anymore.

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#21

Going to head down to the polling station with my youngest when I get home. She loves going to the Catholic church hall thing that they use for ours as there’s a really good slope for heelying down to get to it.

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#22

possible wolfcastle.jpg here but she’s not, it’s a callback to the keith’s mum brexit thing

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#23

Pretty sure it was satire about old people voting Tory and his mums not 93

I actually met him and his missus in a pub in Colchester the other week. Sound people. Talked to me because I was sat on my own

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#24

woosh.

#25

Yeah, I’ve managed to miss the whole point of this whole thing. Too much election.

#26

Are Conservatives nicknamed Tories due to Conservatories?

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#28

no pro-tory trolling in here please :frowning:

#29

I’ve been and voted, it’s not looking good here.

I have beer and pills now though

#30

I was in Tom Whyman’s band cos we were in the same year in 6th form :smiley:

the myspace page still exists :joy:

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#31

I went to see Kraftwerk last night so I’m still reeling from that, thankfully.

Cast my vote this morning. The people asking for my polling number were really friendly, one was wearing a Labour rosette, the other person a Green rosette. The 3 ladies in the hall of the baptist church were lovely too, one of them apologised profusely when she thought I wasn’t down as registered. Placed my vote (I’m in Caroline Lucas’ constituency so piss easy for me) and am hoping she retains her seat tomorrow morning as she’s utterly brilliant and I’m really proud to call her my MP.

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#32

I thought it was just a tweet about an old lady making a joke. I’m not very clever apparently.

#33

Beer tennis!

#35

genuinely thought this at first

#36

Dog treats should be evenly shared between all the good girls and boys

#38

Tellers innit, just outside the polling station, so s’all good

#39

I assume he means the people outside who ask for your number after you’ve voted - so they know who to chase later in the day.

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#41

I think it’s because the original two parties in our country were Whig and Tory. The Liberals and the Conservatives were meant to be sort of progressive successors but I think Tory was used to refer to the Conservatives as a kind of negative commentary and got adopted?

(I’m sure Google/Wikipedia has a proper answer.)