Oh well, game over. The Sun has come out for Labour. Sort of.
They really have no shame, do they? Not for supporting Labour per se, but for switching when it is so obvious the Tories are toast.
Eh. They just want to claim to have backed the winner, which is pretty much a foregone conclusion anyway. And they’d also like their readers to forget their solid support for the Conservatives for the past many many years.
ETA:
Well, no. No they do not. And they never have.
Never a bad time to link to this…
Yes Minister on British newspapers (little bit of naughty language in the clip))
Remind me, who was that guy during WWII? He didn’t do too badly at the whole inspiration thing.
Chamberlain. He really sold that whole “peace in our time” thing.
No, no. The guy after him. Damn, it’s right on the tip of my tongue…
Oh, yeah, Bertie!
Was that original to YM? I remember Dave Allen telling pretty much the same joke in one of his series.
YM is where I assume it’s from but I don’t know for definite.
The exception that proves the rule. Think about it - how many Prime Ministers in living memory have had anything resembling a personality, for better or for worse? Churchill, Thatcher, Blair (charitably) and Boris. That’s it.
Depends how you define personality. Macmillan and Wilson had their periods of dominance, and John Major had a more interesting hinterland than he let slip. Others are defined for history (fairly or unfairly) by their mistakes/misjudgements (Eden, Douglas-Home, Heath, Callaghan, Brown, Cameron) but that’s still personality of a sort.
Well, I’ve been out and done my duty, appropriately enough it is a lovely sunny morning here. Feels like a changing of the guard.
Yep. Voted.
Love this, from the top of the comments section:
I believe she is the best prime minster we have ever had because she managed to bury the queen,the pound,the tory party,one chancellor and the UK government in less than 1 month.
I’m lucky, my polling station is the primary school over the road, on the short walk I’d make anyway to pick up my paper in the morning, so it’s all done and dusted in a few minutes, first thing. Just a steady trickle of voters at that time, no party tellers outside (though I noticed a stern list of instructions as to what they may and particularly may not do), and the duty police officer was taking her ease in the sunshine at the children’s picnic table.
I see one last minute poll is suggesting that 16 (SIXTEEN!) cabinet ministers might lose their seats…
I’ve voted, although on the walk down I still wasn’t entirely sure where that X was going. If I’d gone 20 minutes later/earlier it may have been in a different place.
I haven’t voted yet but will do so shortly. It’s a lovely day, perfect for a good turnout and a positive sentiment. I think the Tories will do a bit better than the polls suggest because there are a lot of undecided Conservative voters and I reckon they will feel they have permission to vote Tory again because they will be turfed out anyway and it will keep the Labour majority down.
But before all that, the most important thing about today is #dogsatpollingstations
…wait how did that get in there???
And for an abiding image of haplessness:
I think it’s because they have been talking themselves down so that when
they do a bit better than expected they can claim it as a win.
Wankers.