So
were you up for Opik? It doesn't have the same ring, does it? Firstly
then hats off to Alistair Stewart and ITV...Christ I'm watching BBC News
24 right now and their palpable impatience with the absence of a result
favouring the Tories is like an armpit in the face. Do they not realise
this might take some time? What the hell were they thinking last night?
Where was their Plan B? Paxman asking half-heard questions about
results that weren't in, David Dimleby grumbling about shots of
"leylandii and other sorts of hideous hedges" while fielding eerie
late-night phone-calls describing a mood of despondency, intercut with
Andrew Neill (if there was ever a Dick Tracy villain called Cowpat...)
and Bill Wyman on a yacht, all this maybe was not the way to go. No, I
turned over to ITV at around two in the morning and gratefully never
turned back. There was arguing on ITV. I like arguing, it's sort of a
bit like explaining. Alistair Stewart, who I'd thought ran that first
leaders' debate with the deceptively hectic hand of a Thelma
Schoonmaker, insured once more that time flew, while points got made and
I actually felt like I was learning something. And the choice of guests
was perfect: For Labour, looking like Dredd without the helmet and
sounding like John Wagner John Reid appeared the epitome of stour, sly
Old Left badass (I thought they'd all died). Anne Widdecombe meanwhile
was everything I wanted to see in a Tory that night: angry, baffled,
tiny and old. And for the LibDems - I don't know, who who is that guy?
He's great, I've seen him quite a bit. He looks like the haggard
scientist nobody will listen to charting the course of the meteorite,
and he sighed a lot.
As well he might. It looks like I wasn't
alone. Nick Clegg's now doing exactly what he said he would, which is
why in the end so many of us didn't vote for him and plumped instead for
the party we wanted to see him form a coalition with. Bear this in mind
though, it's not Clegg's decision in the end. Any alliance he forms
will have to supported by his party. And look at them. I don't see them
favouring Cameron. But I don't know. It's like Battlestar Galactica,
isn't it. Is it? It's like Mad Men. What's the word I'm looking for?
It's drama.
I'm looking over my tweets, what was the highlight? Definitely this. "Nakedpainter posted at March 6th". She's alive. You Monsters are the greatest.
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