Goodfellas Pizzas have a new advert out, which ends with a caption that's something like, 'Closing the Doors of Pizzerias'. How blatantly capitalist! A big multi-national frozen food corportaion actually putting out adverts extolling the virtues of closing down the family pizzerias, the little businesses that cook fresh, flavoursome pizza as opposed to mass-produced faux-Italian (give it a gangster name! Yeah!) nonsense. I actually thought it was an advert for the Tories. They may as well have said Vote Howard, Get Free Garlic Bread. And today is the day. Polls opened at seven am, and news channels started showing pictures of Blair plus family soon after. Talk is of Turnout, Postal Votes, Spoiling Ballots. After weeks of cowering from Paxman, avoiding eggs, and thinking up ever unbelievable slogans ("It's Time To Make A Stand", whatever Michael), the maelstrom is crashing into the sea-wall (can they do that? I'll have to ask Oliver Letwin for help with my metaphors). I'm looking forward to John Snow's Swingometer. But that's not the only reason to watch. Remember Mandelson's madness when he won last time? And the face of Portillo when he lost his Southgate seat? I think the date is significant, 05-05-05. I'm sure that Michael Howard wishes it were next year though. On June 6th. I can't wait to see his face. He has something of the Election Night about him.
May the Fifth be with you
5.5.05 13:16
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