Election Night Special
UK voters go to the polls today and it looks to all sources as if they will return the Tories to power after more than a decade of New Labour rule under Blair and Brown. It's been a disastrous campaign for PM Gordon Brown - the "one-eyed Scots git" in Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson's words - topped by last week's "Bigot-gate" confrontation with a granny in Rochdale. As usual, I'm wishing the Silly Party was on the ballot. Follow the returns with me today.
posted by The Blue Devil @ 7:35 AM
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Excellent telly coverage of the returns on the Guardian site:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
The day's news has been dominated by details of a light aircraft crash at Hinton-in-the-Hedges airfield, near Brackley, that has injured the UK Independent Party (Ukip) candidate Nigel Farage and the pilot. After seeing the photo, it's incredible that anyone escaped unharmed. Blimey!
The best news of the day is that someone has hacked the website of the odious white supremacist British National Party and has been down for the whole day. Lovely - couldn't happen to a nicer group of fascists.
All the news hacks are predicting a bumper turnout and the grand narrative seems to be one of "change." The problem with that is that it appears that the Tories are set to reclaim 10 Downing Street with a platform straight out of the Reagan/Thatcher playbook: tax cuts for the rich, cuts in social services, Euroskepticism, Little Englanderism. How exactly is that change?
Better news out of the UK tonight. The exit polls are suggesting three things:
1) The Tories have won but may not have enough parliamentary seats in order to form a government.
2) Cleggmania has not taken hold in the way that the media has been trumpeting over the past three weeks. Thus the Lib-Dems may not have the juice to be able to form a coalition government with the Tories.
3) Gordon Brown seems to have picked up some late steam. The incident at Rochdale might actually have won him some votes from people who like their pols to be grumpy, old bastards. We may not have seen the last of Gordo, in other words.
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