... within the confines of a venue roughly half the size of our usual surroundings ...
more or less "manacled" to a desk for 16 hours - from 6.20am till 10.20pm - (under the terms of our Contracts of Employment we're forbidden to leave the premises throughout the poll!) except to have a

... each of us will do our level best to explain [to an unsurprisingly

electorate] yet another

Govern
mental idiosyncracy that involves conducting
three different procedures on the same day!
