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Originally posted by Reverend:
...Alastair Campbell is in all fairness a gigantic git who was being intentionally provocative and makes a habit of blaming everything from his uneven driveway to the black death on Sky and the BBC's reporting methods.

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Oh well that's fine then, if I'm in an argument with someone and decide I want to start to shout in their face and start waving my arms about, I can just put it down to them being a git, can I? There's no chance that could backfire on me when someone points out that in fact it's me who is the git, is there? No?

And here was me thinking that Campbell was being quite reasonable in the exchange - he was trying to answer the question put to him, made a comment about what he thought Boulton thought, and then when Boulton went off like a firework Campbell tried to calm the man down because he was embarassing himself on live television. Now granted, he maybe shouldn't have tried to put words in Boulton's mouth by saying what he was thinking, but all Boulton had to do was say "I don't think that" and come back with something reasonable. What he did was to flare up (no pun intended) and act like an arsehole by raising his voice and adopting quite an aggressive physical stance. No need. If you want to fill some air time with a fat guy who has a bit of an odd look and some anger management issues then get Nick Griffin in, that's what he's good at.

Bugger me though, that all happened fast! One out, one in, with the residents of Walford Square being classed as collateral damage. Thought Gordon Brown's exit speech was very dignified - struck the right note and off he went with his family. Presumably to sleep through to next Wednesday! Cameron's speech hit the expected notes though I'll be interested to see how his relationship with Nick Clegg develops. I anticipate something along the lines of "Two sugars Nick, there's a good lad." but time will tell.

Still can't see how a Con/Dem coalition will work though. If they offer a referendum on the AV system, are they really expecting it to look credible when the PM stands up to the country and says "Don't vote for this! Boo!" and the Deputy PM stands up and says "Vote for this! Woohoo!" about the same issue? What about by-elections, will the coalition partners contest the same seats? What about when Cameron's right starts to rebel against being pulled to the centre, and Clegg's left starts to do the same? And what about the next election, when Clegg turns to the electorate and says "Vote Lib Dem" when 5 million people will be able to say "Well we did that, mate, and we got Tory, so why should we?". Interesting and worrying times ahead but I gleefully anticipate a proper Lib Dem kicking at the next election.

Of course, I might be biased.

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Originally posted by FawnDoo:
All of which is immediately followed up by the BBC reporter saying that people could end up with a PM they didn't vote for.

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Originally posted by Jason Abbadon:
You have an activist Supreme Court too?

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What we have is an awful lot of people who either seem to think they live in America, have watched too much "West Wing" DVDs, or both. And a mass media that seems to agree with them.

I thought that the press conference with Eric and Ernie - sorry, David and Nick - was laying it on a bit thick. They did everything but snog the faces off of one another like teenagers at a school disco who have downed too much cheap cider. Have some dignity, lads - or at least rent a cheap hotel room, knock a few stiff drinks back, get freaky and then it's out of your system once and for all. If anyone catches them at it, they can just claim that two lesbians on a ship several universes away temporarily took over their bodies. We could corroborate that, right?