C4’s Assessment Of A Hung Parliament Scenario

January 3, 2010 at 8:56 pm

Channel4 discusses the possibility of a hung parliament with a series of sycophantic comments from Liberals and not much else.

There are useful reminders in it to the electorate that the markets will assume that we’re all doomed and react accordingly though, although no pictures of the dead lying unburied on mortuary slabs to ram home the idea. Also, interestingly, only the LibDems come up in the context of balance of power which isn’t very enlightening as UKIP are poised to take the seat of our pathetic excuse for a Speaker*, the Greens are looking good for an outside bet in Brighton and there is the chance of a BNP upset or two. The SNP, of course, may paradoxically hold the balance of power in a Parliament that they wish to leave. All in all a missed opportunity of a much too brief 5 minute news slot.

TheEye rather enjoyed the line “this is a nightmare scenario” accompanying video footage of Edward Heath outside No10…you’re not wrong there, sunshine. Lord Armstrong also provides a ray of amusement when asked if Gordoom would cling on to office in the event of being reduced to largest-minority patry status. He skirts oh so delicately around saying “The drug-addled manic depressive has completely lost touch with reality and wouldn’t recognise defeat if it whacked him around the back of head with a shitty stick” by calling him ‘dogged’ and saying that he could indeed forsee such a scenario. Nicely done, boss.

*TheEye remains eagerly volunteered to find out if Sally Bercow is half as good as they say she is, though.