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Denzil_DC

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7. Bad weather suppresses the non-Tory vote.

Reply to abqtommy (Reply #6)

Sat Oct 26, 2019, 06:24 AM

Oct 2019

That's just an unfortunate fact of life well known to anyone who's been involved on the ground in UK election campaigns, especially in Scotland.

I don't usually disregard experts, but the uncited ones the BBC seems to have found evidently haven't tried getting out the vote on a council scheme on a gloomy, rainy Thursday night.

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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