It appears that the traditional election night fest that occurs at the end of a British general election may be under threat - this is because of proposed changes to how postal votes are counted and verified. If the changes are enacted then the results will be announced in the afternoon after election day was held.
A massive big BOO to this I say!!! The Guardian's editoral today explains why it would be a shame to change this tradition...
Contains lots of Britney and lots of ranting.
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3 comments:
Pffft to that quite frankly. The night of May 1st 1997 was truly glorious. It all depends on how much you care about who wins and how much you enjoy politics I guess. As the Guardian pointed out, the election night is often the night when politicans let down their guard the most and you get some interesting comments being made and some great imagery. You get 'moments' of the night where it dawns on one party or the other that they are about to lose/win - the most famous of these being the brilliant Portillo moment of 1997.
Just thinking back to the night of 1997 again...If the results were just announced on the afternoon after the election day then the whole process would have been a massive anti climax compared to that actually experienced. It really was a genuinely exciting thing to watch one Tory 'safe' seat after another go down to Labour opposition, to see Labour get in in parts of the country they had never dreamed of before etc. To see the Tories realise that their 18 years of power were over was fanastic. Scenes like that will be taken away if they change the procedure. But I do recognise of course that only saddos like me like staying up till 5am to watch each seat get declared one by one....But there are quite a few of us saddos out there. I cant see how it would improve anything by changing it.
I love the election night coverage, although it won't be the same without the great John Snow and the hilarious BBC graphics.
Would be a great shame to see it lost, especially when the next election could well be a bit of a nail biter...
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