Can’t blame the Pentium flaw for that one – in the early hours of Friday morning, the BBC fed the swing against the government at the Dudley West by-election into its computer to assess what would happen at a General Election if the whole country swung the same way – and the program hung: problem is that it isn’t programmed to take into account the possibility of no Tories being elected (couldn’t happen? Remember what happened to the Canadian Conservative Party…) so the operators had to feed in a single Tory victory so that the program could complete its work, making a House of Commons with 18 Liberal Democrats, 25 others, 607 Labour members, and that lone Tory who shouldn’t really have been there – and who would it have been? Well John Major in Huntingdon does boast the largest Tory majority…
