From Kay Burley's weird, gasping, sex noises to Krishnan Guru-Murthy looking like the cat who got the cream: JANE FRYER watches election night TV with so much madness you need a split screen By Jane Fryer Published: 21:26 EDT, 4 July 2024 | Updated: 07:58 EDT, 5 July 2024 e-mail 13 View comments Can it really be just six weeks since Rishi announced his kamikaze snap election in a torrential rainstorm with D:Ream’s Things Can Only Get Better drowning out his words? It hardly seems possible but, here we are, sitting on the sofa, staring slack-jawed at the exit poll, which promises total devastation for the Tories . And clearly it comes as quite a shock to Kay Burley and crew at Sky News who, when they see the figures, seem only able to make what sound like weird, gasping, sex noises on their microphones. ‘OOH.
Ooh. Oh my God. Oo, oo ooooooh.
’ GB News doesn’t fare much better. Lord knows how, but somehow they manage to switch the Labour and Conservative results to announce a Tory landslide. Meanwhile, over on the Beeb, Chris Mason allows himself a couple of wonderfully controlled ‘blimeys’.
Harriet Harman, Kwasi Kwarteng and Nadine Dorries on Channel 4's live election night coverage last night in which guests bickered on and on Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell - that 'smug duo from The Rest Is Politics podcast' - were also guests on Channel 4's coverage So I flick to Channel 4’s much advertised Britain Decides, hosted by Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Emily Maitlis, wi.
