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BYE BYE BLAIR

posted by [personal profile] panik at 12:04pm on 10/05/2007
I'm watching the PM resign on live-TV with - strangely - mixed feelings... 

All very historic and all that; goodbye Blair, hello Brown. Wondering what the new admin will be like. Wondering of there'll be some good headlines I can make into amusing T shirts. <G>

ETA: Nice speech, rather moving, actually. He really knows how to play the crowd; he was a lawyer, after all (o: I keep thinking of those 10 years, they went so quickly... I'll never forget election night, sitting on the bed in our little  Havana apartement, listening to the growing hysteria of the journos on the BBC World Service as Tory after Tory went down like nine pins... How could that be ten years ago?
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posted by [identity profile] fluterbev.livejournal.com at 11:12am on 10/05/2007
Hm, I echo your mixed feelings. This has been an interesting week in UK politics, to be sure.

Ooh, I'd buy those t-shirts ;-)
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posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 12:22pm on 10/05/2007
Heh heh; if I get a good one out of it, I shall make them freely available to the super-secret cabal, hon. (o:
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posted by [identity profile] betagoddess.livejournal.com at 03:27pm on 10/05/2007
"How could that be ten years ago?"

Um, time flies when you're having fun??? *g*
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posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 06:39pm on 10/05/2007
LOL, well, SOME of it *was* fun!
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posted by [identity profile] betagoddess.livejournal.com at 06:41pm on 10/05/2007
I should hope so, cause that's a lot of years to have no fun in! *g*
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posted by [identity profile] fluterbev.livejournal.com at 06:12pm on 10/05/2007
Me again :-). Your tale of being in Havana reminded me of that night. I was living in Ireland then, and we'd just moved briefly into a rented house in Dundalk after 9 years of living in the country. We were in that house for just three months, while we waited for the purchase of our cottage to go through, and ithose three months were the only time during the whole 8 years we were in Ireland when we got decent TV reception. That meant, of course, we could watch the election coverage. We stayed up all night, drinking champagne, and celebrating the end of Tory rule. It was a good time, most definitely, and the first time since we moved there that I felt truly homesick.

Michael Portillo being kicked out was particularly sweet, I recall... ;-)
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posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 06:42pm on 10/05/2007
Ah, so much water under the bridge. :;sigh::

"Michael Portillo being kicked out was particularly sweet, I recall... ;-)"
He really was the one to hate, wasn't he? And he's changed so much; I rather like him now. Do you ever watch that late night talk show - can't remember the name - with Andrew Neil and Diane Abbot? Portillo's the most liberal one there - *way* more so than bloody Diane Abbot. (o;
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posted by [identity profile] mab-browne.livejournal.com at 06:57pm on 10/05/2007
Well, hello the joys of lj, because this hasn't made it onto the newspaper web page I check first thing in the morning. End of an era for sure.
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posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 09:14am on 11/05/2007
::sigh:: It's been practically all the news we've had for over 24 hours, now. It's getting tiresome... ::G::
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posted by [identity profile] kashe07.livejournal.com at 11:22pm on 10/05/2007
Boy, do I remember that night! I was at the count for our local seat after campaigning vigourously - probably one of the best nights ever for the Labour Party! Michael Portillo losing was, indeed, the highlight!

I've heard Tony speak and it is mesmerising, he can really hold an audience and win you over. Personally, I think he's one of the best Parliamentary debaters we've had in the UK for a very long time. How things will go now will be interesting.
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posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 09:16am on 11/05/2007
Forget the glitter and the glam, Sky News are already forecasting a dull dour administration. Their online poll is also giving (will Brown make a good PM?) an 85% 'no' response - which seems a tad harsh, I must say.

I wasn't often a fan of the policies, but I feel we'll miss the style. (o:

And having a PM called 'Blair'.
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posted by [identity profile] chelseagirl47.livejournal.com at 01:42pm on 11/05/2007
Wow. I bet my husband doesn't even know. Serves him right for coming to live in America . . . We really ought to watch the BBC World Service news once in awhile.

Hi. You friended me, and I think I know why -- this username postdates my involvement in a certain fandom so I'm curious if that's how you found me. :-) I'm not active in that fandom (ASJ) anymore, but I'm happy to friend you back, just hope I'm not too boring!
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posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 02:54pm on 11/05/2007
I'll be honest, I can't remember why I friended you but I'm sure I had perfectly good reasons.(o: I've not been terribly active in ASJ for a while, either, though I still dabble a little. Glad you've friended me back, though (and I doubt very much that you're boring)!
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