We were watching on TV since 2 am, fortified by tea, coffee, wine and sausage rolls. The well-funded
BBC coverage was best: a top team of presenters/analysts; fancy tools and graphics.
Sky News was a diverting alternative - fast, well-formatted results and authoritative chat.
We flipped between the two.
Here were my favourite (Portillo-esque) moments.
- George Galloway loses his seat.
- Ed Balls loses his seat.
- Vince Cable loses his seat.
- Simon Hughes loses his seat.
.. though the politicians above irritate in different ways ..
- Nick Clegg holding his seat - he didn't deserve to perish.
We may now anticipate weeks of entertainment, post-Miliband, as the
Labour Party explores
what it is and what it's for going forwards. As a side-order, post-Farage, watch as
UKIP disintegrates along its myriad ideological fault lines. And as for the
Liberal Democrats (post-Clegg), remind me again what they're for?
