BYE BYE BLAIR

[panik]

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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[fluterbev.livejournal.com]

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... ;-)

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

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;