Ken vs. Boris: It's So On

He still hasn't worked out how to do an impression of David Cameron, has he?

Shit, that Nuneaton & Bedworth result - that used to be a two-party council. BNP have picked up two seats there from scratch.

Maitlis / Culshaw - terrible.

Christ, Culshaw is not very good at impressions

and doesn't seem to know anything about politics.

He didn't even try to do Cameron. I think Maitlis probably thought he would ... and he didn't. He was awful throughout.

I think Maitlis' "Wolverhampton... primaries and Sheffield caucuses" line was quite possibly the low point, tho.

tessa jowell appaears to be slowly melting

oh WTF is this

"Perhaps I can go via Jeremy Vine. You'll enjoy this Charles."

"Or I might not."

No. He's not going to.

Kennedy's face before realising he was on camera there...

fuck me

Um...

this is going to be a youtube favourite

So... Boomhauer, then.

I turned off at the wrong time, didn't I?

privatise the BBC now

Tories have apparently got Southampton with a seven-seat swing.

Eight-seat gain. Crikey.

yes, that Vine thing will be on youtube ... if anything will. (I don't know how things get on youtube - but it's the kind of thing that does.)

Ditto. I know he's not my fault, but can I apologize to the world for Jeremy Vine.

WHO THOUGHT OF THAT ITEM?

WHY?

DERE LORD WHY?

Has he ever met an American?

it was silly ... but it's as if a kind of showmanship and silliness has taken over from all else.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh3UlZcRQrY

"things are hotting up in blogland"

Lib Dem blog commenters not down with Vine. Maitlis "distancing herself from those... blog... comments..."

it's the drummer from blur!

This is some crap spinning from Southampton dude, here.

Jeremy Vine is now manning a graphic whereby the best result for Gordon Brown is that he is perceived as Stalin.

BNP pick up three in Rotherham, their first ever seats in South Yorkshire.

Conservatives lose Colchester and hold Plymouth.

Is there really no Labour-controlled council in the south of England?

Reading?

(labour since 97)

LOL OMFG!!!! BORIS DONE A GUFF!!!! ROFL!!!!!!! THE MAN IS A LEGERND I TELL YOU LOL!!!!! I CARNT WAIT 2 SEE HIM RUNNING THE INTIRE CITTY!

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/4910/ptr13bo3.jpg

bunch of kunts. boris heading for victory.

Lots of Toryboys on TV going "prrp prrp prrp" smugly.

I'd forgotten what THEY looked like.

WTF

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7379267.stm

This is what we was referring to above. Not only a stupid presentation with robo Clegg graphics, but absolutely pointless in terms of content to boot.

Gutted to the core about the BNP in Rotherham (where I grew up) - a sad sad sad day.

This is not boding well at all for Ken, is it? Or is that the point of Ken, that he can be seen as a non-labour thing entirely with his purple campaign and generally disassociation from the party? I can only frickin hope.

R4 suggesting labour in third place based on the local results ... 160+ seats lost? luckily, everyone's saying: "yeh, but the tories are still cunts." (well, not in so many words at 7.30am, but you get the idea.)

labour's lost hartlepool!

R4 also v quiet about rotherham ... four minutes into the 8am bulletin and it's not been mentioned.

Can't believe I'm on this thread this early. How's life in bold new Tory Britain?

bn-cunting-p have gained 8 seats, according to BBC news website.

cameron surprisingly and mercifully unsmug about tory gains, which is something, i guess.

Fucking depressing (x-post)

One of the main problems Labour's now got is that business/media/anyone influential doesn't see any point in engaging with it.

With that background, trying to take forward any major policies that might make a difference will be virtually impossible for Gordon B.

Personally, I'm starting to feel precislely the opposite of whatever it was I was feeling on 2/5/1997. May have intensified considerably by dinner time.

Can v easily envisage Tories winning next gen election now.

I wonder if Ken wonders if he should have simply have apologised to that Standard journalist at the outset and avoided a long-term personalised campaign against him.

john humphrys to nick robinson: "so, labour will have lost london too?"

i'd like to think that's not a given; that ken transcends labour; that boris's pointlessness transcends protest voting (and indeed zany student pranking). but i fear the worst.

fucking stupid england.

Can't believe I'm on this thread this early. How's life in bold new Tory Britain?

Same as it was yesterday.

Oh good grief.

I think that's all I can manage.

If voting actally changed anything, it would have been banned years ago!

I just watched Vine's Shootout Saloon again and - yes, it's utterly daft - but it actually kind of impresses me, the way he remembers the script and delivers it, and keeps his silly accent as long as he has his hat on.

I'm afraid that jokes about Stalin are in terrible taste: how about graphics of Cameron as Hitler, wondering if he can make a big push? No good.

People on this thread are lamenting the (local) results, as though a Tory Britain is a terrible thing, and Labour / Lib Dem losses are sad. I agree entirely. But were you all saying the same thing for the last 10 years, or disdaining Labour and ignoring the Tory threat? Have we perhaps been complacent about the prospect that faces us now? (Not that our complacency, if it exists, makes much practical difference one way or the other.)

i've been rather more concerned about what's going on up here than in england. and, y'know, we managed to get rid of labour WITHOUT USHERING IN THE MOTHERFUCKING TORIES, for fuck's sake :)