"I duly went along to vote, misguidedly thinking there might be some blurb at the polling station."
Polling stations have be, and be seen to be, places of strict neutrality. Any blurb present could be seen as allowing bias. Who misguided you?
"Wonder how much they got paid for sitting on their arrases all those hours bored stupid?"
The pay for a Presiding Officer is roughly £10.86 per hour for 23hrs split between 3 days (training session, collection of equipment, polling day). For a Poll Clerk, it's about £7.85 for 21 hrs split on 2 days (training, polling day).
If you feel that it's easy money, why not apply at your local council offices? If you want a quiet life, try and get a nice little rural polling station. If you'd like a little more excitement, then volunteer for an inner-city polling station when there are 3 elections going on at the same time and you have lots of drunken students and people who can't speak the language but want to vote on behalf of their poorly grandmother who can't get out of bed etc etc etc.
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