This photo was taken twenty minutes before we repaired to my office, and heard (with a gentle sound of our jaws dropping) the results of the Exit Poll for the UK elections. As I type this I'm listening to the Today Programme, hearing about the collapse of the Red Wall in the northeast (and elsewhere). Thank goodness for a visit, today, of a very dear friend from England, so we could listen to the results together, and, more than that, trade points of reference from Elections We Remembered over the last 60 years ... there's nothing like knowing the names of constituencies; at knowing what it signifies that the Beast of Bolsover lost the seat he's held for 49 years; at hearing the familiar formulation of the Returning Officer reading out the results in each constituency. The USC motto of Fight On! sounds a little hollow, right now ... (but what else can one do?).
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