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May 06, 2005
Blogging the dawn
I attempted to follow all the Scottish seats and the top 40 Labour marginals - entirely on the internet, without a television. Before counting started, I had listed all these seats with approximate declaration times.
It was impossible.
The declaration times given by the Press Asociation were wildly wrong - not surprising perhaps considering that almost all of the Scottish seat boundaries have been re-drawn. BBC coverage (I was watching a video feed) was good but erratic and perhaps biased towards England.
I used two machines but lacked computing power. Declarations were coming in too fast and I couldn’t keep up. Friends at Boris-Johnson.com and Chicken Yoghurt decided to ‘live blog’ the night but in the end there was no time to check other blogs. Next time some division of labour (in both senses) will be necessary.
However the possibility of a lower than expected majority for Labour, and the complicated regional differences, made the unfolding process more exciting than I expected and I stayed up until about 6 am, well past the dawn, surviving on coffee, Pittenweem oatcakes and raspberries etc. (graphic pictures follows).
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Posted by Simon Holledge at May 6, 2005 02:47 PM
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