Introduction


Can each day be headlined by a word (or two) and represented by a single sentence?

Will they, in turn, weave together to form a tapestry of the year?

It may be more mundane than momentous, but it’s mine to share.

Friday, 8 May 2015

Tories In

By 4am it was clear that the exit poll was spot on so I went to bed for a few hours, my head full of the sight of Tory grins and Labour frowns, the sound of SNP cheers raising the roof and LibDem support dropping through the floor (as huge chunks of last time's protest vote support were diverted to the irrelevance of UKIP); by noon Cameron was in Downing Street and Miliband, Clegg and Farage had all departed their leadership posts giving the Conservative party free rein to further shrink the public sector, transferring costs of essential services to the individual, which is fine if you can pay, but disastrous if you can't.

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