Saffia Widdershins

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Yes.

Exit polls are not illegal. They are just collected by non-affiliated pollsters. The reps are collecting details of who has voted so that they know which people not to bother visiting when they try to get the vote out later in the day. It’s usually a very friendly process.

The tellers are there to ask politely - otherwise, what would they be telling? I’ve been a teller myself, one sunny day in May 1997, when I sat outside a polling station in North Oxford, chatting with the very friendly tellers from the other major parties.

Gingernuts

(and also means that the parties can focus on those who have told canvassers they intend to vote for their party, but haven’t yet). But the representatives are just meant to ask, not demand. And it is illegal to ask people which way they voted, of course.

Erm … showing your polling card (names, addresses and polling numbers) to the party representatives at polling stations is actually pretty standard - it’s so voters don’t get people later calling to ask them to vote

“And I feel as though we’ve had all of them in the last ten years.”

Tourists could still see (and use) the entrances, marked Women and Men. And if they ventured down the stairs … they found themselves in the public lavatories.

In Oxford, the popular misleading landmark story was that the Martyrs’ Memorial in St Giles was actually the spire of the famous underground cathedral. A very old building, it followed ancient tradition by separating male and female worshippers.

I once asked if she wore a crinoline when she was younger, and she really laughed at that. Her dress style throughout the time I knew her was sort of 1930s, but at that time I think it was more common for women to stick to a style from their fifties than to keep up with fashion.

Me. I’m sixty-eight. I’m old but not really, really old. My mother’s step mother was forty when she married my grandfather in 1924, and she lived with us until I was eight, and I saw her until she died when I was thirteen. So she was nearly ninety when she died.

I will grant HP sauce is acceptable. At least you didn’t suggest mayonnaise (only works in a BLT). HP sauce is great in a Lancashire hotpot with suet dumplings too - adds a nice spicy kick.

I”m sorry to disagree with you excellent taste but … bacon sandwiches???

Sewing machine bovine. The spool goes in top, the bobbin underneath

😀 I said this yesterday, and also referred to the Wee Frees and the Wee Wee Frees. In a word … “Splitters!”

One suspects that Restore is only the first split. Think of the Wee Frees and the Wee Wee Frees (joke names for evangelical sects in Scotland). Or, for that matter, the People's Front of Judea in Life of Brian with its war cry of “Splitters!”

And there’s the contrariness of the British psyche which, when offered the chance to name a super new Antarctic explorer ship (strongly hinting that Sir David Attenborough might be a good name), respond, “Well, we love Sir D, but it will be a laugh to go with Boaty McBoatface.”