tory voters - now look what you've done!

[crisgal]

i don't understand how two parties can merge when their policies are so different.

If so many people couldn't get to vote, shouldn't we do it again?

Or another vote, just for the top two?

[joggerjayne]

The only people who couldn't vote were those lazy skanks who couldn't be bothered to turn up during the first 14 hours of voting.

[crisgal]

my daughter suggested, 'best of three?' LOL

[mollykins]

yeha but its up to lib dems really. Their views are in the middle of the two parties and a swing either way could clinch it for either of the other two. I think.

[boxtops]

I don't understand why so many people left it so late. The booths open at 7am. Can anyone explain? I can understand (sort of) the situation where all the University students turned up without voting papers (can they do that?!) but there was a 13-hour window to vote.

[joggerjayne]

LOL

[cazzz1975]

well it will teach them vote earlier next time.. ;)

[crisgal]

well, i believe that they'd been queueing for hours. Something's not right is it?

[pips1]

I'm a bit confused by all this as I had 2 calls from my (now ex!!) local MP reminding me to vote and each time he said voting papers were not necessary - why?? Why bother to send them out? or fill in the electoral form then.

[cazzz1975]

people not bringing in their forms hasnt helped the voting process, I would imagine this would account for some of the hold ups

[pips1]

Too true!!

[joggerjayne]

Boxy ... the window was 15 hours !

And the people on the News, who had turned up at 9.00pm to queue to vote, were NOT people whose high powered jobs had kept them in the office all evening.

They were lazy skanks, who couldn't be bothered to turn up until the last hour.

Look ... there is a cut off time. The End.

What if a group of 30 people all wandered in at 9.55pm ?

It's too late !

They are a bunch of whingers !

[crisgal]

well, yes, i see your point.

[cc1]

I tnink the voting papers referred to are the cards sent out with your number on, you don't need this, it simply speeds up the process of finding you on the list.
Since when were students so busy that they were unable to get there until the last hour? It's a bit like the people who turn up at Asda on Christmas Eve, ten minutes before closing time and expect the store to stay open for them. A deadline is a deadline.

[sophie_1003]

Some people were queuing for three hours, they didn't exactly leave it to the last minute! And even leaving an hour to the end you wouldn't expect it to take that long, it took me 2 minutes to get in, vote and get back out again!
I thought we should do it again crisgal but don't think that's going to happen! The Lib Dems have some similar policies to the Tories, well at least their education policy seemed quite similar!

[crisgal]

what will happen, if nick clegg says 'no, i don't want to join either of you?'

[gucciman]

there should be a vote off between just the top 2 parties

[mollykins]

I heard on the news, that what they could have done, just before 10pm was get everyone inside and given them their ballot papers, then queued inside, with the doors closed so noone else could get in. They said that aslong as noone else came inside and everyone had their paper by 10pm it didn't matter if they filled it in and handed in after 10pm, they did it somewhere but other stations weren't aware they could do it, or couldn't fit everyone inside.