Thursday 4 July 2024

Election Day Is Here

As today is election day the broadcast media are under strict OFCOM instructions that we may not report details of campaigning or election issues while the polls are open between 7am and 10pm on the day.
While the polls are open, it is a criminal offense to publish 'exit polls' which includes surveys on how people have said they have voted in the election and may also offer a prediction on the election result based on what voters have said.
Once the polls have closed at 10pm, then the the election guidelines no longer apply and it's onward and downwards into the small hours as the results come in and we find out who will be running the country for the next 5 years.
Unfortunately that means that i won't be able to say that i sincerely hope that the Conservatives are obliterated and the past 14 years of right wing ideology is swept away under the rug of history and that Nigel Farage amusingly fails for an eighth time to become an MP and his and his band of racists are left to drag their knuckles back into the shadows.
Unless every opinion poll for the last 2 years has been spectacularly wrong, then the country will be waking up to a Labour Government tomorrow morning and the only thing left to be sorted out is the size of Keir Starmer's majority with estimates currently ranging from anything from 100 to 450 but i am not fussed about that, as long as he gets enough to remove the Conservatives then job done, put the kettle on and lets all sit back and enjoy the brief honeymoon before the first Labour scandal hits the front pages.