Electoral commission 'can't count in the evening'

[doodab]

It gives Gordon Brown and Ed Balls more time to do a poo in every room of Number 10 before Brown hands it over to Cameron.

I bet they are really smelly ones as well, from those two.

A nine banana poo is not going to be pleasant, that's for sure.

[RichardCranium]

There was a Returning Officer on the radio yesterday complaining about how they have to sit up until 2 a.m. or so and it's not fair on them.

a) it's once every few years;

b) why take the job, fckwit?

There was a government spokestwat complaining about how much it costs the taxpayer to pay council employees to work late doing the counting. That's odd. At both the local authorities I worked at when there was an election, they were all volunteers; and they were inundated with people willing to do it. At the first authority, the council got pizza delivered for the counters at the taxpayers' expense (£100 or so, presumably) and at the other they got nothing.

So it is all bollocks, lies and spin. As usual.