{"id":287,"date":"2011-07-21T12:09:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T11:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drawingportfolio.co.uk\/?p=287"},"modified":"2023-12-15T13:48:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T13:48:10","slug":"election-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drawingportfolio.co.uk\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"General Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

The day after the 2010 General Election I went down to Parliament to see what was going on. The media had set up camp to watch the process that would eventually lead to a coalition government being formed. The green outside Parliament is an interesting place at these times with spin doctors and news anchors rubbing shoulders with the tramps and nutters that are the green’s everyday population.<\/p>\n

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TV stations set up their gear around a Henry Moore sculpture.<\/p>\n

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Burnley fan and war criminal Alastair Campbell has his two penn’0rth.<\/p>\n

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Man mountain John Pienaar does a turn for BBC Radio 5<\/p>\n

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Ex Murdoch hack, Andrew Neil, in full flow.<\/p>\n

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Will Hutton on the gantry .<\/p>\n

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Tory HQ, Millbank.<\/p>\n

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