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This was back in the 1980s, where generally we’d get an offer of a cup of tea and a biscuit from most places. But these were households already down as on the same side as my rosette, so not unfriendly.

I was thinking of the one done for the BBC, others are also available.

Just a pity that Chelsea and Man City constantly get away with it....

I've done that in the past. You have a list of people who've promised to vote for your party and you go round their houses to check they've bothered to do it. Parties used to offer lifts to polling stations as well, though I suspect postal voting has removed much of the need for that.

I believe it is all completed by around 13:00 - so if you don't vote by midday you probably don't get exit-polled.

Twenty people queue ahead of me in Sussex Weald. When I left there were around thirty queuing. A friend of mine, who I helped get citizenship last year, had never voted in a democratic election with a real choice before - he was there at his polling station at 7AM this morning, dressed in his...

Yes, mine have gone up too. Maybe it's the bit on the roller-coaster just before the descent.

I got married on election day in 1997 (voting in Brighton Pavilion that afternoon), which made it a different kind of night - though I did watch a bit of it. Our hotel filled up the next night with celebrating Labour Party workers. So in a sense every election day is a wedding anniversary. I'd...

The only real positive to take from that is how full of despair the "anyone but England" crowd would have been with that performance and result. We didn't deserve to win, but we did.

When he brought Toney on in injury time we were all screaming at our TV. Can’t believe we actually won…. Two shots on target, two goals. Still, on - unbelievably - we go to the quarter finals.

It's something I'm think about: do you vote negatively - to stop a particular person/party winning - or positively, for someone you prefer, but who hasn't a chance of winning. I once voted for Bellotti, though I didn't know then what we knew later. Not sure I've got the answer, but I guess it...

We put up our martlet bunting for the day.

Ireland doing pretty well compared to where it looked like they might be going earlier on.

Not so much where they come from for me, but I do care about their connection to the local area. I live in the Sussex Weald constituency and I met the Labour Party candidate* this afternoon, who was very keen to emphasise his connections to Sussex (it being Sussex Day) - but he has none really...

Who will be first? Fixtures or a new manager?

The "Ignore Thread" is beautiful. No politics threads at all - and I'm not annoying those who love that kind of thing, I just don't see it. Like uninteresting ships in the night, they silently steam into the distance without me on board.

Nice to see England do well, but I still fear it will be too late to progress....

I do like the re-imagined colour animations; it shows a way of looking at the stories I’d not always thought of before - the Macra Terror one especially.

Yes, each day passing makes it more unlikely, I think. Waiting a few weeks, then brining him back suggests that at least one of the parties were looking out for a better offer.

The selection process is all fine, but I thought we had a massive super continuity planning system and had identified plenty of candidates we already knew would be wonderful. Have we changed our approach? I'm not sure I'm going to be so trusting of their statements in the future...