Been and done my bit for democracy...

[panik]

have scratched my mark upon the scraps of paper with the blunt pencil provided. I've also been to Aldi for wine and chocolate, I have a feeling I'm going to feel the need. My palms are sweating. This election scares me.

Comments

[ledh.livejournal.com]

can you recommend a good news site for following the results?

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

The BBC are usually pretty good at this sort of thing:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/default.stm

or Channel 4 are good too:
http://www.channel4.com/news/

But Twitter's probably going to be the place to be. It's going to be an interesting night, for sure. Can I ask why you're interested? I'm not sure I'd stay up to watch the Belgian election ;o)

[ledh.livejournal.com]

I study English, and Britain is one of my very favourite countries. not to mention this election has been frontpage news for a few days here too, even with one of our own coming up XD thankyou!

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Well, OK! I hope you enjoy it, it promises to be the most unpredictable election since the mid seventies. I'm staying up late, well plied with drink and drugs chocolate.

[ledh.livejournal.com]

yeah, it's so interesting! and at least i don't get stupidly angry at the results like i do when i vote around here.

[ledh.livejournal.com]

whooow, those stations close sooo late! ours usually open from around 7AM-1PM and we get clear results by around 8PM or so, i won't be staying up to follow this one! probably because yours is ona weekday, ours are always on sundays.

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

They're always on Thursdays here, since time immemorial. :o) I love the election coverage, with the presenters caught mid-sandwich and mugs of tea and all the daft glitches. I'll be flipping from the srz-BBC stuff to the C4 alternative election night, too, which promises to be pretty good.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/channel-4s-alternative-election-night

Whatever happens, it's always an *event*.

[talcat.livejournal.com]

I'm drying my hair then I'm off to make my mark too.

I'll also be getting something to drink.

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Drink is always good in situations like this.

[talcat.livejournal.com]

I've voted EVER since I was able even and I don't think I've ever felt as nervey as I do today.

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Me too, my first was '79 when we all knew Thatch was going to win. This time, I'm genuinely nervous and slightly scared.

[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

I'm nervous, too, and I don't even live there.

Hee!

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

It's all so knife-edge and unpredictable and certain prospects terrify me. But I lived through the 70's, the 3 day week, the Winter of Discontent and Thatcher too, but I'm dragging my Dunkirk Spirit out of the loft and donning the rubber underwear, just in case. *g*

::is laughing in the face of adversity, but a little too loud and shrill, with a forced, nervous, hysterical edge, like a Dalek on Red Bull and Tizer::

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Me? Scared? Nah, nerves of steel. Ping! ::hides behind sofa::

I've got a terrible feeling I'm going to be sitting up into the wee small hours chewing my fingers; and worse, whatever result we get I'm probably not going to like it. I'm doomed!

[cerebralpig.livejournal.com]

I'm with you all the way. Scary monsters. I think I may need to get very drunk indeed tonight. We'll be watching channel 4 and tweeting no doubt so I'll see you there. Gird your loins.

[bluewolf458.livejournal.com]

:-) Me, I voted a couple of weeks ago... and I'll go to bed at my usual time, waken in the morning, walk the dog, then maybe over my breakfast at 7am think of checking the results... because whoever gets in (or doesn't) I doubt it'll make much difference to the man (or woman) in the street. Because whoever gets in will have to deal with the same problems anyone else getting in would, and a top politician's 'programme' is less than meaningless. Practicality says that adjustments to their manifestos will have to be made.

Yes - I vote, but boy, I'm cynical. I'm totally opposed to 'party' in politics. A system of Government and Opposition automatically bars some of the more competent MPs from the Cabinet. During the war we had a coalition; it worked. So in the current financial climate, why can't we have a coalition again?

[chriselora55.livejournal.com]

"This election scares me."

It scares me too. *Sigh*
However, I used my vote because of the women who fought and suffered for our right to vote.

I'm breaking out the wine now.