UK General Election Live Thread (December 12, 2019)

New York Times ^ | 12/12/2019 | N/A

[goldstategop]

Live Updates: U.K. Votes in General Election

Britain’s voters head to the polls to choose their next government on Thursday in a deeply divided moment for the country that has left the outcome unpredictable.

RIGHT NOW

Voting has begun in the British general election, the second since the country’s landmark Brexit referendum.

[goldstategop]

Voting underway now in UK. Polls predict a Tory landslide.

Post all election news and updates here. Brexit is the key issue.

[ScaniaBoy]

Not the latest polls. They predict a very close race - possibly a hung parliament. However, polls are polls....

[goldstategop]

Latest polls? When.

[mewzilla]

Polls are polls...

On both sides of The Pond.

[drop 50 and fire for effect]

The current headline (10:44 am UK time) from The Telegraph website:

"Live-Voting underway as polls show race 'too close to call'"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/

[goldstategop]

Too close to call? I guess the Tory landslide just evaporated into thin air, conveniently by Election Day.

I guess we’ll have to see whether Johnson has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

[mewzilla]

Too close to call....

Been a lot of that lately.

Go figure.

[OttawaFreeper]

I checked a site that showed that the Tory lead is that good bit stronger than what May’s was at the end of the 2017 campaign. Johnson’s numbers have been basically steady and consistent whereas May’s began an irreversible downward slide for most of her campaign.

[goldstategop]

Let’s hope the Tories win a majority for the UK will never be free if people remain hung up over whether or not to Brexit.

[af_vet_1981]

Latest polls? When.

Search for "latest uk election polls"

General election polls 2019: final UK data before vote narrows Tory lead


The trailing average was a Tory lead of about 10%.

[canuck_conservative]

BoJo has got the whole British Establishment against him - all the media are fear-mongering about Brexit (including the bleeding-hearts at the BBC), with the inevitable charge that he’s a racist too, now being brought up.

In other words, he’s being treated like the British version of Trump.

BoJo has GOT to win this, and win big, to put the traitorous media and their globalist pals in their place - otherwise no country will be safe from their malicious interference!!

[GreenLanternCorps]

I'm going to post BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg's comments from yesterday that have got her in some hot water, because it is illegal to report postal vote results prior to the polls closing:

BBC’s political editor was speaking to Jo Coburn on Politics Live from the campaign trail.

Asked about voter turnout ahead of the big day she said: “The forecast is that it’s going to be wet and cold tomorrow.

“The postal votes have already arrived.

“The parties are not meant to look at it but they do get a hint and on both sides people are telling me that the postal votes that are in are looking pretty grim for Labour in a lot of parts of the country.”

Exit polls get released when the polls close at 10:00pm GMT (5:00pm EST).

[a little elbow grease]

Latest polls?

_________

Ask sicko Juan Williams. Polls are his only frame of reference.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Speaking of Laura Kuenssberg, this thread is worthless without pictures...

[goldstategop]

From your lips to God’s ears.

[mewzilla]

Meanwhile...

Hillary Clinton, Chris Steele Allege Boris Johnson Is A Russian Stooge

Obama gave Common Core contract to publisher, got $65-million book deal in return

[GreenLanternCorps]

I thought this constituency (district) map would be helpful:

[Lazamataz]

I dunno. I think it’s pretty useless WITH pictures.

She’s mousey.

[Russ]

The mousey ones often have hidden talents...nudge, nudge, wink, wink...

[mewzilla]

And the UK does have a Mouse Problem...