Ken vs. Boris: It's So On

xpost But maybe everyone knew that.

(side note before I leave the thread...I didn't figure out that I was allowed to vote until the other day, already too late to register. So if Boris wins, it'll be my fault.)

BLOGGERS!

city hall is clearly where the sexiness is happening.

Live Blogging. This is some serious fucking bullshit right here.

i thought adrian edmonson was on itv these days?

No results for London mayor till tomorrow, I think we don't start counting in London till the morning, a curious distinction we share with Northern Ireland,

Blogging on TV: http://youtube.com/watch?v=xVaZwJn-ZcM

for documentary purposes, what's happening on the rolling news channel is a recorded segment (while everyone else takes a pee):

"the bloggers have been at it," the reporter says, standing in high heels next to a stool in what looks like a futuristic bar / internet cafe, "well, like bloggers"

"we'll look into all the little eccentricities of the bloggers" she promises

"twitter"

that girl john culshaw was talking to = whoa. get her on.

hahahaha oh yeah "we'll be listening to all the... twitter"

she just repeated it, oh god i can't believe this isn't a send-up, jessica hynes would kill this

Lib Dems: "Gordon Brown is the best canvasser for the Lib Dems"

Not just blogs, but zings too.

this is some next level badly done television

yeah the poor map guy with his jeans.... won't somebody get this man some pants?? i mean trousers

Man if Ken v Boris is exotic I hate to think what the rest of Britain must be like these days. You poor lambs!

Any idea who that one "other" in Tamworth is? BBC doesn't seem to have it down.

Having charlie kennedy as a pundit = look folks he's dried out give him his party back

jowell is a disaster on tv shocker

Tessa Jowell digging one hell of a hole for herself right now.

Tony King is surprised that the Tories haven't taken Worcester - apparently they just needed one seat to get total control and they didn't manage it, so it's No Overall Control.

Vine has a coat. HAPPY NOW, INTERNET?

The thing that annoys me, endlessly, about New Labour, is how they endlessly bang on about Middle England and how they must win it but rarely any specifics about what it is they are improving when they're in power.

Tessa Jowell encapsulates that awful vacuousness perfectly, like they became experts at winning elections but awful at communication after that, beyond "blah blah stable economy etc". Possibly out of sheer blind fear that anything they said would see the population of Britain throwing them out for these evil sinful things.

Sorry, I know this is nothing new.

This Ascension of Man graphic describing the Tories' election progress is astonishing.

OK WTF is this ascent of conservative man graphics, has Viz had so many of our license fees for this?

what is on dimblebey's rolodex. it looks like it probably controls time.

is everyone ten minutes behind me or something?

Four councils in Yorkshire reporting, and Leeds isn't one of them.

Barnsley is an interesting one - Labour losing seats to the Barnsley Independent Group, a bunch of disaffected old Labour types. But now Labour have won one back off the Lib Dems...

i thought i hallucinated that thing with the transparent monoliths

barnsley result is cute, but not particularly significant. labour won't lose those votes at a general election.

sheffield will be interesting.

LOL Polly Toynbee as official voice of the Labour Party, up against Portillo and some LibDem dude.

gah this "twitter" woman is just brutal

Portillo sticks it into Boris - "Tories desperate to win with a candidate that embarrasses them". Ouch.

Those Yorks councils tonite. - Barnsleh, Rotherham, Doncaster, and West Lindsey. It is apparently impossible for Labour to lose Rotherham because they have too many councillors.

west lindsey gone to the tories already

Labour will never lose anything in south yorkshire outside south west Sheffield as long as I am alive.

dimbleby abandoned in the studio!!

portillo's chicken neck a bit alarming

xp, crypto-labour thing in barnsley notwithstanding

West Lindsey is the first Tory gain of the night, LibDems gain Hull from NOC. Look North managed to not mention this at all.

Tories gain five seats in Sunderland? Ruddy hell...

I think Vine's BS dumb graphics are a stupid terrible trivialization.

Hello, Tracer Hand.

That Sunderland result is a nasty weathervane. RIP Gordon Brown.

Is Vine ad-libbing? Cos his style's just reminding me of bid-up.tv a lot (our Freeview box starts on that for some reason).

think I've missed some Maitlis moments. I think she's an attractive woman, really, but her talking about Bloggers earlier was not good. what are they gonna do? press buttons and ... write things ... off camera? ... pointless.

Vine is announcing results of a vague poll - doesn't mean much

sunderland representative of the national swing? not so sure.

Election nigh has always been about BS graphics, last time we had Labour digging holes.

Polly T is not official voice of the party: she is a decent progressive woman; bless her.

Ed, these graphics feel different to me -- a different level of BS. hard to explain.

This NHS poll is basically just based on people guessing, isn't it?

Nick Robinson has a blog too! Blogarama!

Nuneaton has swung to the Tories after 30-something years, with two seats gained by BNP. Fudge.