I’m watching British election TV coverage, and I’ll be reporting live on my impressions.
Right now, I’m watching Peter Snow explain the results with a variety of virtual reality graphics that swoop and zoom around him. So far, there’s a lot of swooping and zooming and no actual news–only one district has reported back.
That district is Sunderland, by the way, which was frantically counting votes in an effort to be the first district to report for the 4th year in a row, thereby getting itself into the Guiness Book of World Records. The reporter waiting for the news kept talking about the tension in the room–not from the candidates, but from the counters, who were trying to beat their previous vote-counting speed record. (They were a little slower than last year, but still managed to be first.)