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BooScout

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3. Seriously?

Reply to abqtommy (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 25, 2019, 02:59 PM

Oct 2019

They're speculating people will be standing outside in the cold and damp and voting in tents. People walk to the polls over here, not hop in their cars and drive. The worry is...there's a reason elections are held in fair weather months. I'm sure the OAPs (Old Age Pensioners for Americans who don't know what that stands for) will love trudging through the mud and slush and voting in the fresh air.

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Winter election: What difference does it make? [View all] BooScout Oct 2019 OP

I would imagine that bad weather and long nights... T_i_B Oct 2019 #1

To a True Scot 2 feet o' snow is only a wee bit. I used to vote here in Albuquerque in a abqtommy Oct 2019 #2

Seriously? BooScout Oct 2019 #3

I kid you not. A bit of history I picked up on the German military perspective of their adversaries abqtommy Oct 2019 #4

Yeah... BooScout Oct 2019 #5

I was in London when I was 5 years old (in 1955, January and February, with my parents). abqtommy Oct 2019 #6

Bad weather suppresses the non-Tory vote. Denzil_DC Oct 2019 #7

Especially when it's ' night' at 3pm BooScout Oct 2019 #8

It's not just the day of the vote. Denzil_DC Oct 2019 #9

Don't mess with my Corrie! BooScout Oct 2019 #10

It is likely to make a difference to turnout LeftishBrit Oct 2019 #11

I've just thought - under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, this makes future elections muriel_volestrangler Oct 2019 #12