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I am clearly going to need to be disenfranchised for the following reasons:
1) Eric Pickles taking Dimbleby to task for speculating when there wasn't a single vote in
2) agreeing with Mandy that whilst Labour weren't popular the Tories should stop claiming they were. total votes up total party popularity down
3) thinking D Steele is vaguely cute
There have been some really good pros - George galloway going, the possibility that we might get some sensible discussion, the alliance result, a token green (I think), the poor BNP vote. also I can't help but think the difficulty the Scots and Welsh will have of holding the English to ransome - I loved the chutzpah of the welsh having a specific figure as the price for their votes! Lots more negatives - The beeb should be completely ashamed of themselves for their obsession with personality. No one got the choice of voting for the 3 leaders - that would be somewhere foreign.
Dimbleby looked completely past it and made me squirm in a Brucie on Strictly sort of way. I think there were some good constituency MP's that got the boot. Our offically slipping into 3rd world status with the shocking disenfranchising.
It is mind you the first election I can remember where all three parties are admitting that they have lost as opposed to claiming miraclosly they've all one.
and interestingly at 8 this am the best coverage was CNN who had grasped it was about parties not individuals and predicted that the Tories would form a minority govt cos they were too big to allied against and too different for people to align with them. also that the notional figure for a majority was actually 3 lower because the shinners wouldn't vote. I clearly am hallucinating CNN and Pickles making sense and Mandy making me laugh
no idea how to explain it to the kids anyone got any ideas?
lil
1) Eric Pickles taking Dimbleby to task for speculating when there wasn't a single vote in
2) agreeing with Mandy that whilst Labour weren't popular the Tories should stop claiming they were. total votes up total party popularity down
3) thinking D Steele is vaguely cute
There have been some really good pros - George galloway going, the possibility that we might get some sensible discussion, the alliance result, a token green (I think), the poor BNP vote. also I can't help but think the difficulty the Scots and Welsh will have of holding the English to ransome - I loved the chutzpah of the welsh having a specific figure as the price for their votes! Lots more negatives - The beeb should be completely ashamed of themselves for their obsession with personality. No one got the choice of voting for the 3 leaders - that would be somewhere foreign.
Dimbleby looked completely past it and made me squirm in a Brucie on Strictly sort of way. I think there were some good constituency MP's that got the boot. Our offically slipping into 3rd world status with the shocking disenfranchising.
It is mind you the first election I can remember where all three parties are admitting that they have lost as opposed to claiming miraclosly they've all one.
and interestingly at 8 this am the best coverage was CNN who had grasped it was about parties not individuals and predicted that the Tories would form a minority govt cos they were too big to allied against and too different for people to align with them. also that the notional figure for a majority was actually 3 lower because the shinners wouldn't vote. I clearly am hallucinating CNN and Pickles making sense and Mandy making me laugh
no idea how to explain it to the kids anyone got any ideas?
lil