EU Referendum: shit just got real edition

[Jimmy Floyd]

This is a new thread as requested for a TTH Exit Poll and chat on today's events and the coverage later.

Results are expected to begin coming in at 12.30am with the result known by 6am or so. Dimbleby is on the case.

[phonics]

I fucked up my registration. My voting record is awful.

Lib Dem, Spoilt Ballot. No vote.

[Magic]

Mine is worse.

UKIP. Tory. Labour. No. Remain.

[Byron]

Lib Dem. Green. Remain.

[Magic]

That looks like where my current trajectory is headed, Byron. :D

[Disco]

I think I've only missed a couple of votes since I was eligible, one I was definitely not in a fit state for. I even vote in bullshit local stuff that I have no idea about (I pick the person who looks interesting or has a cool name) because it's nice to join in.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've voted in everything I've ever been eligible for, including student elections (spoiled all the ballots with messages like 'All the same commie shit' and 'Why are you all such wankers?'). Apart from voting UKIP in the last Euro elections (let's try and airbrush that from history, shall we?), I've voted Tory in all national elections and Residents in all local ones.

No to AV and Leave the EU.

[SvN]

Is the poll not being public deliberate?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Is the poll not being public deliberate?

No, I fucked it.

[randomlegend]

You're such a badass Jimmy.

[Dquincy]

I can't see a poll..but am on my mobile so that might be why.

[Kikó]

Remain. And I haven't voted yet.s

[Magic]

Naomi O'Leary ⚡️ ‏@NaomiOhReally (https://twitter.com/NaomiOhReally) 3h3 hours ago (https://twitter.com/NaomiOhReally/status/745888672445243393)
Queue at north London polling station "a lot of people are seeing the line and just leaving" poll clerk says #EUref (https://twitter.com/hashtag/EUref?src=hash)https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags/EURef_emoji/EURef_emoji.png (https://twitter.com/hashtag/EUref?src=hash)



:harold:

[Jimmy Floyd]

This is about the time students get out of bed, isn't it?

Not that the north London result is in too much doubt.

[SvN]

I'm walking past the polling station at around 6pm to see what the queue is like. If it's even slightly long, I'm not stopping, and instead going back later.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've never seen a queue at my polling station. It's in a Methodist church (weirdos), and you just walk in, avoid talking to my mental/wife-beating neighbour who mans the voting lists, and out in about 90 seconds.

[Magic]

I really don't understand why people don't postal vote. Fuck making effort to vote.

[Lee]

Yeah I've never seen a queue either. Also a Methodist church.

[Kikó]

I'll give a queue update later. Hold onto your hats!

[Disco]

Ours is in a primary school but they've moved the hopscotch thing round the back so you can't have a go on the way in anymore.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I really don't understand why people don't postal vote. Fuck making effort to vote.

Very high postal rates in Scotland, where things are a long way away from other things, and only the humble fried potato can coax a man from his sitting room. In civilisation, there is literally no need to postal vote.

[Kikó]

Indeed. It's on the way home for me so it's no real effort.

[Dquincy]

I really don't understand why people don't postal vote. Fuck making effort to vote.

First time for everything, but i completely agree with this. Sod going out of my way to vote when i can easily do it via post.

The only bugger is if you're undecided as you need to send off the form a week or so ago.

[SvN]

Very high postal rates in Scotland, where things are a long way away from other things, and only the humble fried potato can coax a man from his sitting room. In civilisation, there is literally no need to postal vote.

Indeed. The polling staton is about a 3 minute walk from my place.

[Magic]

My polling station is a five minute walk away.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Which is exactly my point, in Scotland and the north east there are massively higher postal vote rates compared to the rest of the country. These are culturally lazy regions.

[Magic]

It isn't lazy if there is a more convenient option available.

[Jimmy Floyd]

You've just described what laziness is.

[Magic]

Grr. No, because I had to walk to the post box to post it, which ironically enough is right outside the polling station. It isn't lazy, it's just I can't guarantee I'll be available on the voting day and I get a few weeks to do my postal vote.

[igor_balis]

My record at generals is labour/labour. At locals and stuff it is labour or greens. Stopped voting green cus the local parry were even weirder and crustier than I imagined when i saw em at a talk Natalie Bennett did. She wasn't great either.

[Gray Fox]

Can confirm there was not a queue at my polling station. Exciting times.

[niko_cee]

Unfortunately I have let slip my record of cancelling out the wife's vote, so she's had a free run at remain.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The first result will be from Sunderland (high postal voting area...) and they expect a smallish win for Leave there, so you can extrapolate after that. A big win for Leave there and we're well into the twilight zone.

[Magic]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpmFnUTkpL0

[Disco]

Sunderland always try and declare first, which seems odd until you realise it's Sunderland and that's probably all they've got.

[Lewis]

Plus one for the Methodist church.

[Disco]

This must be all they exist for these days.

[Lewis]

The voting or the quick in and out?

[Bartholomert]

This must be all they exist for these days.

Sad. Where will you be when you are near death I wonder...

[Magic]

And the award for the most boring update ever goes to:

https://s31.postimg.org/4zb2ttsp7/lol.png

[randomlegend]

Sad. Where will you be when you are near death I wonder...

?

Plenty of people manage to die without 'finding god'.

[Disco]

Sad. Where will you be when you are near death I wonder...

Near death? That's oddly specific, I'm not sure I can supply a grid reference.

[Pepe]

At what time do the seethes commence?

[phonics]

The ongoing pencil conspiracy is amazing.

[Lee]

At what time do the seethes commence?

If it's within five points either way, as seems likely, not until about 5am. If it's closer then not until lunchtime tomorrow probably. Even if it's decisive you're looking at no earlier than 3am.

[Pepe]

So until tomorrow then. Alright.

[Magic]

Please can we unban Harold for the announcement.

[Davgooner]

I think Leave have it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I think Leave have it.

I think Remain have it.

[Byron]

I think I have it.

[Spikey M]

Remain will win by a comfortable margin. When votes are tight there's always a late surge to the status quo.

[Magic]

On one of the most important days of a generation our local newspaper has some shit about a junkie 'moving house' using nothing but his pushbike as a main story. :face:

[Spikey M]

Link?

[Magic]

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/dundee/212343/watch-braw-day-take-couch-doon-stobbie-amateur-removal-man-becomes-online-hit/

LOL it was the 2nd story in behind some rapist/murderer being on the run. It's now disappeared in to 'watch now!' so they must have heeded my advice.

[Spikey M]

1) That's a proper grafter.
2) For a newspaper named 'The Courier' that's an ideal headline.
3) lol Scotland.

[Sam]

Voted leave as did the rest of the family/friends. Will be interesting.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Decent guide for any mugs like me who will stay up for some of the coverage: https://www.buzzfeed.com/jamesball/heres-what-to-look-out-for-on-eu-referendum-night?utm_term=.oxWEPdVZW#.dvqj2Qgq6

The map they have in there is very interesting. The divide is basically the same as in the AV referendum - London, university towns, and Scotland like to stay, everywhere else likes to go.

[Lewis]

There are reports of high turnouts, so either all of the students have bothered this time round or the PLEBS are going to don it.

[Lee]

Not sure how much you can tell from reports through the day. Was there not talk of really high turnout in 2010 which turned out to be bollocks.

If it is true it seems mixed. According to Twitter people there's high turnout in Leicester council estates and in west London, so positives for both sides. There were more young people than usual at my polling station but I was only there for five minutes so it means fuck all.

[niko_cee]

Is there any sort of exit poll for this?

[Raoul Duke]

They're not doing them, for some reason that was discussed earlier but I can't remember.

[Yevrah]

Yeah, we don't need two of these being posted in simultaneously.