Initial Thoughts
Whatever happened to Cleggmania?
Did voters cross over from Labour to the Tories without stopping in between?
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Election Night Blogging from ITV News
Keep your tweets coming in if you are at counts, let Guido know what you are seeing in the real world rather than only online.
Log on to :
www.itv.com/news/election2010/
For instant rolling results from around the country.
Watch to see if Will Straw kicks off as his night falls apart…
Tweeter Culpa
Guido has in the past, you may have noted, said that “Twitter is s**t”, “Twitter is a passing fad” etcetera.
Strongly held opinions have never in the past prevented Guido from trying to maximise his ubiquity. Eagle eyed co-conspirators will have spotted that the masthead has changed today and that the Guido twitterstream is now incorporated into the masthead at the top right.
Never let it be said that Guido wouldn’t change his opinion, some eleven thousand co-conspirators following him can’t be wrong….
Fawkes Girls Endorse “None of the Above”
Guido brought home some political finger puppets* last night. This morning Miss Fawkes (5) and Ms Fawkes (2¾) grabbed them off the breakfast table, ripping open the packets to give dad the benefit of their political analysis.
First, and mindful that Mrs Fawkes was watching with a wary look in her eye, Guido tried to exercise some fatherly objectivity and give the girls some background:-
“The one with the red tie is Gordon Brown, he is the Prime Minister, the one with the blue tie is David Cameron, he wants to be Prime Minister. Nick Clegg has a yellow tie and he wants to decide who is Prime Minister.”
Miss Fawkes immediately and perceptively interrupted “They are all boys?”, “Yes” replied dad. Miss & Ms Fawkes chorused “Yukk”. With that they discarded the politicians and went back to their porridge.
So there you have it, The feminist Fawkes girls say “none of the above”…
*Courtesy of Rubbish Magazine
+ + + Source : Farage in Ambulance + + +
+ + + Pilot Being Cut Out of Wreckage + + +
+++ Developing +++
According to UKIP sources a two seater plane used by Nigel Farage was circling to land in Buckingham when it crashed. Farage is injured but “walked out of the plane”. The pilot is/was being cut out.
UPDATE : Farage has been taken to the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. The pilot is being taken to a specialist spinal injuries hospital in Coventry.
UPDATE : II From wire report: Eyewitnesses told how the pilot and Mr Farage were in the front seat of the plane when it banked and the promotional banner became tangled around the tail fin causing it to plummet to the ground.
Guido and the rest of the Guy News team send their best wishes for a speedy recovery.
UPDATE : III From the BBC:
A very lucky escape by the looks of it.
If Dave Were President He’d Have Resigned By Now | Alex Wickham
Loongate: What Happened in the Blue Boar Bar | Simon Walters
Feldman’s Tennis Days With Dave | Telegraph
How Geoffrey Howe Has Lost the Debate | Robin Shepherd
Dave Has Lost Control on Europe | Geoffrey Howe
Lib Dems Should Support EU Referendum | LibDemVoice
Feldman’s Denial | Fraser Nelson
Obama’s Presidency is Imploding | Nile Gardiner
Miliband Could Be a Great PM | Thomas Pascoe
What Are You Really Paying in Income Tax? | TPA
Galloway’s Mad Month | The Commentator
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Tom Harris bemoans the public’s attitude to politicians…
“Mr Oborne echoes the lazy, anti-politics whine we hear so often these days, all based on the absurd notion that politicians were once loved and only fell out of public favour during the expenses scandal. He should take a walk to the Strangers’ Bar. But not to sup with the patrons he seems to despise so much, dearie me, no; he should instead look at the paintings on the corridor outside the bar, which depict the devastating fire which consumed most of the Palace in 1834. And he should reflect on the fact that on that dramatic night, as the Commons went up in flames, a crowd gathered on the South Bank to clap and cheer.”
Focus group time. says:
The thing that Dave needs to work out is which group is more likely to vote Conservative. Mad swivel-eyed loons or mad homosexuals wishing to get married.
