Lawlessness, yay.

[whatho]

Right now, we have no prime minister whatsoever. It's massively exciting. We could do anything. What shall we do? Mostly I'm going to have a biscuit, then I might invade somewhere. I find the whole handover business stupidly exciting really, though it very much isn't when you stop and look at it properly. I've been bouncing around in front of the TV for some hours now, being disappointed at the stupid unecessary reverance of Blair-features' last PMQs (don't ovate like that ever again) and watching Gordon Brown take curtain calls at the treasury like he's Olivier or some such person and listening to Prescott speculating on whether or not he's actually in charge during this weird period of unchargelessness (I think he probably isn't) and all that sort of thing. It's just kind of filmic really. I only wish someone would do something surprising. Like the queen-face (I can't capitalise queen and I have to turn all my loose change queen-side down) would ask Brown if he was capable of forming and government and he said no or something. Or she refused to accept Blair's resignation. It's all going too smoothly. There's no proper third-act turnaround. It's slightly lame on balance.

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[whatho.livejournal.com]

He's still in there! I think the queen's eaten him in a fit of accidental zombie-werewolfness. How are they going to report that?

Other countries are being very unimaginative. We're mostly screaming 'WE HAVE NO BOSS RIGHT NOW' and talking about how the handover has to be really quick because until it's finished nobody's actually bothering to run the country at all. Presumably the civil service is sort of doing something, but still.

[jekesta]

I rather think the civil service were sitting in a HUGE circle, holding hands, and just HOPING BEYOND HOPE that nothing bad happened. I think the whole country was held together by HOPE for about an hour or so there. That's what I'm saying.

I love that hte queen made him stay and chat. I bet they gossiped about hating Tony Blair. Dude.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

Yes! Mother says the queen and Gordon were just hating on Blair for 55 minutes. I think it's entirely truth. Good.