With just hours to go before the polls open, you may still be struggling to decide on who to vote for in the general election.
But one person who had no trouble at all making his party leader choice was the UK’s first gender neutral penguin Ziggy.
Ziggy and other members of London Aquarium’s colony of Gentoo penguins have made some predictions about who will come out on top in Thursday’s vote.
They were given the choice of four candidates all vying for the top job – Jeremy Corbyn, Boris Johnson, Jo Swinson and Nigel Farage.
It wasn’t an easy choice, with some of the penguins determined to sit on the fence, but one by one the feathery voters waddled over to their favourite candidate.
For Ziggy and their pals, Jeremy Corbyn was the top prediction to become prime minister on Friday.
Graham McGrath, General Manager of SEA LIFE London Aquarium, said: ‘While there was definitely something fishy about how the penguins chose their favourite candidate, it was exciting to watch our penguins get involved in making a fun political prediction.
‘We look forward to finding out if their prediction was the right one when voters go to the polls this week.’
But it seems Ziggy’s vote was not unanimous with every penguin colony in the UK.
In Sea Life centres across the country, the same prediction test was run and it appears animal opinion is just as divided as the rest of the nation.
In Great Yarmouth, the penguins predicted the Liberal Democrats would be successful, but in Weymouth, otters forecast a hung parliament.
The latest general election constituency-by-constituency poll puts the Conservatives on course for a 28 seat majority.
But the margin of error and unknown impact of tactical voting means a hung parliament is still a possibility.
The pollsters, who analysed more than 100,000 voter interviews over the past week, predicted the Tories will win 339 seats and Labour 231.
A 28-seat majority would be the best Tory result since Margaret Thatcher’s showing in 1987 – but it is down from the sizeable 68-seat victory that the same YouGov-style poll had been predicting only two weeks ago.
Chris Curtis, YouGov’s political research manager, said: ‘The margins are extremely tight and small swings in a small number of seats, perhaps from tactical voting and a continuation of Labour’s recent upward trend, means we can’t currently rule out a hung parliament.’
Today, party leaders have been targeting undecided voters, calling tomorrow’s vote ‘the most important election in a generation’.
Guests can visit SEA LIFE London’s Gentoo penguins at Penguin Point, part of the attraction’s Polar Adventure experience, find out more online.
