Have you got your popcorn, booze and strong coffee to hand? You should as this is going to be a very long and momentous night following the closure of the polls at 10pm.

I hope to be awake and hopefully sober enough to watch to see if the Bolsover seat goes Tory for the first time since 1950. I want to see if the British people have chosen freedom and democracy over the chains of socialism.

I’m heartened by some of the stories that I’m hearing on social media that this election looks like it could have a good turnout. This is as it should be. For a democracy to work, apart from the requirement of an educated electorate, the maximum numbers of the electorate needs to turn out to express a preference. If this does not happen then those who are more politically motivated will still turn out and you will end up with a potentially bad government that most people didn’t want. Small numbers of the highly motivated can swing elections but larger turnouts can dilute these highly motivated groups of voters.

I’ve just got back from voting for the Tories in order to stop Corbyn and his nation wreckers and I am pleased to announce that security and ID checking seems to be quite vigorous. I got ID checked because of a name misspelling on documentation but I was still allowed to vote. Let’s hope that this vigour is present in polling stations in less rural and more divisively diverse constituencies than mine. This particular polling station also looked considerably more busy than it usually is at this time of day during an election. I could see at least three people leaving the polling station as I approached it, something in my experience that struck me as unusual. Normally my local polling station is quite sleepy and it’s a bit of a quiet day out for the staff who run them. Not this time it seems.

I hope to be online sometime after the polls close with maybe a close of electoral play article on here. I will also be posting to Gab as well where I can be found as @Fahrenheit211.

There is a whole lot riding on this election and the choices are really stark. It’s a very difficult election to call and although the Tories are riding high in the polling numbers there is still all to paly for. We could still wake up tomorrow morning with the nightmare on Downing Street that is Jeremy Corbyn in Number Ten. If we vote for those who will annul our Referendum vote which is what we would be doing by voting anything other than Tory or Brexit Party where they can be expected to win, then there is nothing to stop a future government from annulling the results of any future electoral contest.

This vote is one of the biggest in generations and I’m going to the supermarket soon to stock up with beer and nibbles for a long night in front of the TV watching the results come in.