Friday, May 06, 2005
five more years
Yes, congratulations to Tony Blair and the Labour Party. Five more years and all achieved without either of our votes.
On arrival in Kuala Lumpur, Operation Find Star Sports was postponed for a few days and instead it was Operation Find BBC World. Suspecting that the CNN election coverage would be bobbins, we invested at least an hour in traipsing round different hotels in the pouring rain to find one with BBC World. As the BBC channel is virtually sponsored by the Malaysian Tourist Board, this seemed quite achievable. How wrong we were? After a fruitless hour, we gave in and opted for a place with only CNN, thinking the coverage couldn't be that bad. Again, how wrong we were.
Bobbins doesn't quite do their coverage justice. After a good 5 hours viewing we're probably lucky to actually know who won. Clearly, being a 'breaking news' event, all the big guns (sic) had been flown in from Atlanta. Most of them must have left their Ladybird Guide to British Politics at home. Factual errors galore. Poor Robin Oakley was sat there looking bemused and probably wishing he had never left the BBC.
One especially stupid presenter was delegated to stand in the dark outside a deserted Houses of Parliament all night. Obviously, with anyone who is anyone back home in their constituencies, all she had was a series of total nonentities to interview in ridculous depth.
Anyway, the piece d'resistance was the Mrs Thatcher interview. You can imagine the scene back in Atlanta HQ. "Who the hell is the Kennedy guy? We need faces people know'. So all of a sudden they find Mrs Thatcher (barely able to speak and with nothing interesting to say) and are so overjoyed that we got her 5 minute interview played about 20 times over in the next 2 hours.
Those that care about these things (you know who you are, Messers Etchell, Wright, Mortimer etc) will be pleased to hear that I didn't make it to Downing Street to wave Tony back this time. But we did manage to see it live on CNN (which by now had decided to actually report real news) which was almost as good.
Having completed that, Operation Find Star Sports swings firmly into place. This is what being in foreign countries is really about... With a historic third term secured, now it's the equally historic second season for the Eagles that we need.
On arrival in Kuala Lumpur, Operation Find Star Sports was postponed for a few days and instead it was Operation Find BBC World. Suspecting that the CNN election coverage would be bobbins, we invested at least an hour in traipsing round different hotels in the pouring rain to find one with BBC World. As the BBC channel is virtually sponsored by the Malaysian Tourist Board, this seemed quite achievable. How wrong we were? After a fruitless hour, we gave in and opted for a place with only CNN, thinking the coverage couldn't be that bad. Again, how wrong we were.
Bobbins doesn't quite do their coverage justice. After a good 5 hours viewing we're probably lucky to actually know who won. Clearly, being a 'breaking news' event, all the big guns (sic) had been flown in from Atlanta. Most of them must have left their Ladybird Guide to British Politics at home. Factual errors galore. Poor Robin Oakley was sat there looking bemused and probably wishing he had never left the BBC.
One especially stupid presenter was delegated to stand in the dark outside a deserted Houses of Parliament all night. Obviously, with anyone who is anyone back home in their constituencies, all she had was a series of total nonentities to interview in ridculous depth.
Anyway, the piece d'resistance was the Mrs Thatcher interview. You can imagine the scene back in Atlanta HQ. "Who the hell is the Kennedy guy? We need faces people know'. So all of a sudden they find Mrs Thatcher (barely able to speak and with nothing interesting to say) and are so overjoyed that we got her 5 minute interview played about 20 times over in the next 2 hours.
Those that care about these things (you know who you are, Messers Etchell, Wright, Mortimer etc) will be pleased to hear that I didn't make it to Downing Street to wave Tony back this time. But we did manage to see it live on CNN (which by now had decided to actually report real news) which was almost as good.
Having completed that, Operation Find Star Sports swings firmly into place. This is what being in foreign countries is really about... With a historic third term secured, now it's the equally historic second season for the Eagles that we need.
// posted by courtney and pete @ 13:37 
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5 more years of this lot Pete, you're best advised not to come back! I'm sure Tony missed you at Number 10 this morning, just not the same for him these days without you and Mr Mandelsen to congratulate him. I will be down at the US embassy first thing Monday to apply for a green card...
Jim W
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: 5:15 pm
: 5:15 pm
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Wrighty
You're back. You been underground for 6 months or something preparing to give Fat Tony a bloody nose
Wylie...I'll think you'll find its "an historic third term". Perhaps you'll do something historic and write an article grammatically correctly (That's for Etchell, who obviously remains incognito). Anyway, substitute "historic" for "last".
Keitho
You're back. You been underground for 6 months or something preparing to give Fat Tony a bloody nose
Wylie...I'll think you'll find its "an historic third term". Perhaps you'll do something historic and write an article grammatically correctly (That's for Etchell, who obviously remains incognito). Anyway, substitute "historic" for "last".
Keitho
# posted by : 12:32 pm
: 12:32 pm
And I wouldnt bet that they did it without your votes, either. I'm sure Fat Tony and his crew managed to fill in some postal votes in your absence - they seem to have for plenty of others
Keitho
Keitho
# posted by : 12:51 pm
: 12:51 pm
Keith, glad to hear I was not alone in noticing the slight overuse of the phrase 'an historic...' (and you know the rest).
Courtney
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