Election Night Live Blog

Things will kick off at about 10pm or just a few moments before.

Election Night Live Blog - Advanced Notice

At 10pm tomorrow night within minutes of the polls closing the most anticipated exit polls in UK Polling history will be announced.  You will probably be glued to the TV or to your computer screens so why not join in our now famous live-chat collaborations?  With polling companies set up for a two horse race, the time between 10pm and 11pm could be the most interesting on TV all year.

Be here at just before 10pm for the opening and the chat will run as long as there is the moderators are awake and there are people online and taking part (so this will probably still run quite late).  Please be aware, there are only 25 unmoderated slots available with the current technology; however things will probably be less manic tomorrow as opposed to previous sessions when a few hundred people were collectively  shouting at three leaders who participated in the debates; and comments should be published quickly.

As before, the session will be a team effort and hosted by:

All Seeing Eye, Barking Spider, Biased-BBC, Corrugated Soundbite, Dick Puddlecote, Governmentitus (here), GrumpyOldTwat, Man Widdicombe, Subrosa and Red Rag Online.  All of these blogs come recommended and if are worth checking them out if you have not done so before.  As it is a collaboration, you can be on any of the above blogs and participate in the same live chat session.

It is unfortunately unlikely I will be joining in tomorrow as I have volunteered to count votes at my local counting centre and I don't anticipate being home before 4am.  However I will look in on the chat when I get in and if it is still rolling will say hello.  I will be hosting the chat still here on my blog thanks to the advanced posting feature in blogger.

Thanks must go to the All Seeing Eye for organising and to G.O.T. for another superb graphic.

Third Leaders Debate - The Live Blog

Les Grande Third Debate Live Blog - Tonite

Tonight there will be another live-blog for the Third and final debate which will this time be a collaboration between All Seeing Eye, Barking Spider, Biased-BBC, Corrugated Soundbite, Dick Puddlecote, Governmentitus (here), GrumpyOldTwat, Man Widdecombe, Subrosa, and The Red Rag - all excellent and highly recommended blogs. The collaboration means you can be at any one of these blogs and participate in the same live-blog experience.

The TV debate starts at 8.30pm so be ready at a few minutes to as we will be rolling a little before the introductions.  The All Seeing Eye (who is the brains behind this particular operation) is set to allow yours truly loose for a second week tri-moderating with David M and ASE himself.

Come and have your say.  I can't guarantee that Gordon Brown won't classify you as a bigot for taking part, after all we know his brain misfires when people express opinions which do not recognise his personal sacrifice and visionary leadership; but we all know he will be out of work for a week so why not join us in a verse of:

nah nah nah nah
nah nah nah nah
wheeeaaay,
GOODBYE

The Second Debate - The Live Blog

Reminder: Second Debate Live Blog Tonight

Tonights live-blog of the Second Debate will be a collaboration between All Seeing Eye, Barking Spider, Biased-BBC, Corrugated Soundbite, Dick Puddlecote, Governmentitus (here), GrumpyOldTwat, Man Widdecombe, Subrosa, and Tory Totty Online - all excellent and highly recommended blogs. The collaboration means you can be at any one of these blogs and participate in the same live-blog experience.

The debate starts at 8pm so be ready at a few minutes to as we will be rolling a little before the introductions.

The Second Debate - The Live Blog

After the fantastic success of our group live-blog for the budget a few weeks ago, a few of us have decided that the debates offer another great opportunity for some live-blogging.  And this time, I will be climbing into the moderators chair.

The Second Debate will be a collaboration between All Seeing Eye, Barking Spider, Biased-BBC, Corrugated Soundbite, Dick Puddlecote, Governmentitus (here), GrumpyOldTwat, Man Widdecombe, Subrosa, and Tory Totty Online - all excellent and highly recommended blogs. If you haven't been to some of them before then please take this chance to try them out.

I hope many of you can join us for what promises to be a lot of fun.  Be here or at any of the blogs mentioned above Thursday night, the debate kicks off at 8pm, so we will probably be rolling at a few minutes to eight.

Budget Live Blog - Join In Today After Noon

The window will (should) be up nice and early on Governmentitus because of my recent technical glitches, thus if you are here early please note the fun will begin a little after noon just before the Budget starts.




This is a blogosphere collaboration between A Tangled Web, All Seeing Eye, Barking Spider, Biased-BBC, Corrugated Soundbite, Dick Puddlecote, Governmentitus, GrumpyOldTwat, Man Widdecombe, and Subrosa

You can comment here on Governmentitus or at any of these highly recommended blogs, and everybody will be on the same chat.  This is a break out of the highly popular and successful Question Time Live Blog sessions held on Biased-BBC.

Live Blogging The Budget

On Wednesday afternoon at 12:30pm here on Governmentitus we will be live blogging the last Budget before the General Election in cooperation with a number of other blogs. The Budget will be carried on all major television channels except for BBC1 which will be showing Bargain Hunt (no, really!).

Importantly for us, we will be looking carefully at the different ways that channels report and editorialise the announcements. We'll be able to compare, for the first time here, one event reported several ways in a live environment. Good for bias checkers as well as important for everyone who pays tax in the UK.

The Chancellor’s speech will certainly be a political affair rather than a fiscal exercise, so we can expect plenty of unaffordable goodies deferred until after the Election with a challenge issued to the Conservatives to oppose them.

This chat will be a collaboration between A Tangled Web, All Seeing Eye, Barking Spider, Biased-BBC, Corrugated Soundbite, Dick Puddlecote, Governmentitus, GrumpyOldTwat(thanks for the pic!), Man Widdecombe, and Subrosa - all excellent and highly recommended blogs. If you haven't been to some of them before then please take this chance to try them out.

From Biased-BBC, All Seeing Eye and David Mosque will be in the moderators chair so it'll feel just like our regular Question Time evenings. To catch the live blogging, come back here on Wednesday, March 24th just after noon.

Gordon Brown Press Conference - LIVE BLOG

Web Chat

I have just taken part in a live web chat with Sir Paul Judge and Sir Alistair Graham over on Sky News. It was an interesting live blog with some good points being raised about MP's expenses and Speaker Michael Martin.

Should you have 15 minutes, it should be still be there for viewing.