Newspaper Roundup

May 12, 2010 at 8:00 pm

TheEye was watching cricket yesterday, and all sorts of excitement seem to have happened in the meantime. Typical, isn’t it? A splendid summary by ToryBear wrapped up in a single picture: Despite the vast amount of trees currently being chopped down to provide us with a range of opinions from the […]

Market Reaction To Brown’s Resignation on D-Day +4

May 10, 2010 at 10:36 pm

This is Sterling against the Dollar as Brown triggered a Labour leadership election and offered the LibDems a coalition until that bloodbath takes place in the Autumn. Clegg’s response of opening formal talks just cemented the gloom in the markets. And all this is happening before we get to see […]

Evening Standard on D-Day +4

May 10, 2010 at 5:30 pm

Will this look a bit daft in 24 hours? Their website hasn’t caught up with their dead-tree version yet. Isn’t it supposed to work the other way around?

Watch Gordon Brown’s Resignation Announcement

May 10, 2010 at 5:00 pm

D-Day +4

May 10, 2010 at 4:46 am

…and Police in Westminster have confirmed that the stand-off at a large terraced house in London is continuing. Reports say that Scottish man has barricaded himself inside and is holding 60 million people hostage.

D-Day +3

May 9, 2010 at 3:49 am

“The people have spoken, the bastards”. Dick Tuck’s concession speech following his loss in the 1966 California Senate. And so we wait another day to find out who will be our next Prime Minister. Astonishingly, if we don’t have a new one by Monday morning then Jim Knight, Mike O’Brien, […]

Final Humilation: Corrupt Third World Accuse Us Of Being Equally Corrupt

May 7, 2010 at 8:12 pm

Laugh or cry? There was a time when our electoral system was fair and incorruptible. We don’t live in Africa…over here, what went into the ballot boxes was what came out. One Man (before lunacy crept in) One Vote. A property franchise too. Life was much more civilised before the […]

We’re All Doomed

May 7, 2010 at 7:28 pm

It’s over and the dust is beginning to settle. Gordoom is holed up in the bunker staring gloomily at the revolver and the whisky but can’t bring himself to do the honourable thing. It’s a crying shame that the last sentence was typed metaphorically rather than literally. Having been fed […]

Election Night LiveBlog

May 6, 2010 at 7:05 pm

Here it is – the Election Night Liveblog…..starting when polls close at 10pm and carrying on until the last Moderator collapses in a gibbering drunken stupor over their laptop. We’re live and dangerous across 10 blogs –  All Seeing Eye, Barking Spider, Biased-BBC, Corrugated Soundbite, Dick Puddlecote, Governmentitus, GrumpyOldTwat, Man […]

Two Hours Of Voting Left

May 6, 2010 at 7:00 pm

This post is dedicated to the hard working activists who are still out there chasing up on reluctant voters, telling, and knocking up in the fading daylight with the clock counting down: * I have a plan, sir. * Really Baldrick? A cunning and subtle one? * Yes, sir. * […]