election show reruns

[Guest guest]

If you could watch a complete repeat of a TV election results show, for an

election in the past, would you? and would your TV channels broadcast such a

thing?

Oh well, it may be soon, unless the flu gets us first, that you could do this on

the web? Download a whole election results show from the past.

But already it sometimes happens here, on the BBC Parliament channel, a

free-view satellite channel. Yesterday, which was an annual public holiday, they

showed a rerun of the 1979 election, when Mrs Thatcher first got in, succeeding

Callaghan. 15 hours! and I watched most of it. Just took a 2-hour break

for a shop errand, when they were at the morning lull in the results.

( I may have mentioned choosing not to have a TV, but cheating is possible. I

make care visits approx every 10 days sustaining the semi-independence of my

living parent in her old folks' place. So this was a rare occasion of need to

claim TV access in return for it. )

I would watch an election from an era of drama and turbulence, as this was. Not

watch one that was an ordinary dull 2-party affair at a time of not much going

on, or of the same party having another in a long run of wins. Not watch one

from an era before my time that old folks use as a stick to pick on the young.

This one was within my memory, so a nice riposte to that type of thing.