Reply to: Vote CBA

[vetran]

the Beeb suggests its the day before Payday so the voters are more likely to be sober.

[speling bee]

I know a pensioner who get the local candidate to collect him and take him to the polling station via a detour to Sainsburys.

I don't think he even votes for him in the end.

The candidate has his house burgled each time, so it works out even stevens.

[SantaClaus]

I could go to the polling station which is miles away and tick a box next to someone that isn't UKIP in a futile effort to make sure they don't get elected. Or I could have another chocolate eclair followed by a nap.

I vote for cream filled chocolate topped choux pastry. Nom.

I know a pensioner who get the local candidate to collect him and take him to the polling station via a detour to Sainsburys.

I don't think he even votes for him in the end.

[doodab]

Or what you could do is vote UKIP, to deprive some other candidate of your vote and thus increase the chances of a MSM candidate winning, thereby preventing the rascally UKIP candidate from winning!

Or I could have another cake. Mmmm, cake.....

[OwlHoot]

I could go to the polling station which is miles away and tick a box next to someone that isn't UKIP in a futile effort to make sure they don't get elected. ...

Or what you could do is vote UKIP, to deprive some other candidate of your vote and thus increase the chances of a MSM candidate winning, thereby preventing the rascally UKIP candidate from winning!

[speling bee]

Vote UKIN!

FTFY

[Mich the Tester]

...Sensible answer...

[eek]

It's a conspiracy against hard working people to make sure only the workshy lefty benefit scroungers vote!

Nope The idea was to disrupt government as little as possible with elections so they were held on a Thursday. Most results would have been known that night or during the course of the following day. This gave the new government the weekend to form, the new PM could announce key appointments and all would be in place in time for the civil service and stock markets to return to work on Monday at 9. A seamless transition. Thursday has stuck as the traditional day although many European countries vote on a Sunday, on the basis that it encourages turnout.

[VectraMan]

My polling station was the local primary school, so presumably all the parents had to arrange days off.

They should keep the polling stations open longer - at least an hour past pub closing time.

[Mich the Tester]

Days you can vote:

Thursday - UK and Netherlands
Friday - Ireland and Czech Republic
Saturday - Czech Republic, Latvia, Slovakia, Malta and French Overseas Territories
Sunday - every other bugger

Now why does the UK (and the Netherlands) insist on Thursday, a normal working day, so that people have to got out of their way to vote whereas practically everyone else uses the weekend so you can do it at leisure? For example, I will pop along to the papershop and get my papers, then I will go along to the cafe and have a relaxing breakfast and on the way home, pop in and vote. I see families take their Sunday stroll together and use that as an excuse to vote, why not the UK? BTW, that also goes for country and local elections....

It's a conspiracy against hard working people to make sure only the workshy lefty benefit scroungers vote!

[darmstadt]

Days you can vote:

Thursday - UK and Netherlands
Friday - Ireland and Czech Republic
Saturday - Czech Republic, Latvia, Slovakia, Malta and French Overseas Territories
Sunday - every other bugger

Now why does the UK (and the Netherlands) insist on Thursday, a normal working day, so that people have to got out of their way to vote whereas practically everyone else uses the weekend so you can do it at leisure? For example, I will pop along to the papershop and get my papers, then I will go along to the cafe and have a relaxing breakfast and on the way home, pop in and vote. I see families take their Sunday stroll together and use that as an excuse to vote, why not the UK? BTW, that also goes for country and local elections....

[BrilloPad]

Is that the dyslexic ABC party?

[speling bee]

I could go to the polling station which is miles away and tick a box next to someone that isn't UKIP in a futile effort to make sure they don't get elected. Or I could have another chocolate eclair followed by a nap.

I vote for cream filled chocolate topped choux pastry. Nom.

...

a cake, long in shape but short in duration

[doodab]

What I could really do with is an apple turnover.

[Mich the Tester]

I vote for cream filled chocolate topped choux pastry. Nom.

I find a postal vote solves all having to walk a long way issues.

Wouldn't the pastry get squashed in the envelope?