Saturday, May 8, 2010

is it just me? or ....

are all the news channels describing the result of the general election as
a failure of the Tories to win enough seats in the election
rather than
the Labour Party comprehensively lost the election
It's almost as if they are trying to scupper the attempt of the largest parliamentary party to form a government, hoping that the previous administration can somehow stitch together a deal to hang on to power.

2 comments:

Pat said...

I'm inclined to accept Mervin King's assessment that whoever is in government this summer will be out of power for a generation.
Of course a government with a strong majority might have survived the bad times coming and get re-elected in five years, but I can see no way that such a majority can be stitched together from the present lot of MPs.
Of course all the party leaders need to be seen to try to form a government- but the one that fails will do best in the long run.
Glad to hear that the media are offering Cam their full support- even if unwittingly.

John R said...

Despite various newspapers "coming out" in support of the Tories at the last minute before the election, many of our MSM are lefties through and through. The BBC, of course, is anti-Tory to a man (sorry, person). Collectively their approach to the result is not hugely surprising.