Last night's local election coverage

Before the crisis that involved my dissertation, i was planning on doing an all nighter to watch the local elections that are occurred on Thursday in the UK. I was going write posts all night about election night news coverage. I was still planning on doing it but due to the fact that my Internet went down, i was unable to go online and post in real time. This would stop some people from doing anything. Well not me, I'm went ahead and wrote all of this in real time and posted it as soon as i got my connection back.

I started watching Sky news at 11:30 BST and BBC at 11:40 when their coverage started. Mind you, I've had a fair amount to drink tonight. It was either drink or bang my head against the wall in frustration.

I miss Snow. The new guy on the BBC is trying and the graphics are top notch and some rather good attempts at humour. But still, he isn't Snow. I do hope Snow will come back for the next Parliamentarian election because it won't be the same without him

Sky news had the best set up. Their set was more colourful while the BBC was either the same set they use for newsnight or close enough to it. Now, David Dimbleby is a great reporter but rather boring. With the set design and Dimbleby, i just wanted to go to sleep. Last year the BBC won on set design and made Dimbleby much more interesting. Plus Paxman was there for some very colourful moments and if i remember correctly, it seemed like he had a few before he came on air.

Sky has have there info bar on the bottom with seats gain and such. Great to get caught up on the action if you happen to take a few minutes to see what else is on

Sky has also seems a lot more conservative in saying if a council was won or not. At 12:50

BBC Labour 13 Conservative 21 Lib Dems 4

Sky Labour 8 Conservative 20 Lib Dems 1

Last year, BBC was very much conservative in their elections result. They called the labour majority much later then the other news networks.

Now, it's rather sad that I'm not speaking about three election coverage but the ITV has decided to keep with its regular schedule dose of crap game show, the Mint. I wonder when they are just going to give up on news altogether. Which is a shame because they do have a good local news department and their morning show is interesting

Emily Maitlis is becoming like the British version of Katie Couric, seems rather nice, engaging, and intelligent but i can't stand her. She was on BBC London and she would always mess up things and her questions were quite predicable. She subs on newsnight occasions and i will refuse to watch it unless. I think she might be being groom for BBC Breakfast. She was sent to a pub but sadly, it didn't seem like she was drinking(If Paxman was there, I'm sure he would drink) The BBC is certainly taking advantage of the new drinking laws(Maybe i should head down there, I know their going to be people and they all seem rather friendly. They haven't punched Maitlis out when she'll asked who they voted for) It's always good to see my License fee being spent on this pub and everything that went in to make it look good for TV. Its the brightest pub I've seen due to all the lights they added. Its been spent there then on EastEnders. Sky has a Maitlis look alike at Barking, which is a very important election due to the British National Party otherwise known as the racist skinheads who promote racist violence

End the ribbons that candidates wear. Move to Buttons, much more fun to collect and not stupid. I wonder if it's the law for them to wear it.

Oh bloody hell, the BBC on their bottom banner has comments from people. Why? Why on earth did the bbc think this was a good idea Give us some news, not some bloody tosser's comments that have no point. Tell us who is winning, not what Billy from Blackburn is thinking. Also BBC is doing simulcast on both BBC 1 and BBC 24. Pointless in my mind. They should have kept BBC 24 do what they do, present the news all the time while letting BBC 1 do election coverage. Plus BBC isn't doing every half hour overview of the news. Sky is and doing a good job in letting know where everything stands.

Alan Duncan, a conservative shadow minister, is a major league gasbag. Same with Nic Robinson but I've always known that. He has stopped tonight with his hypothetically questions. “What if trained Monkeys won the council of Stoke-on-Trent would that result in Tony Blair resigning?” “Would it take John Prescott and Charles Clark have sex in front of NHS terrorist nurses to make one of them resign?”

This election decides local elections but due to the UK political system and their motto, all local politics is national, the results tonight have to be put on the national level. So sky is going to, based on the results of tonight, predict who would control parliament. The result of this is meaningless, absolute nonsense. I'm not sure what's the value of this. Show us more news and talk about some more local issues that might have caused one party to lose seats. The problems with labour recently can not explain every single result. Does it explain a few results, most likely, but it's probably a lot less then the news people are saying

Oh, this is ridicules. The BBC is showing videos that random people sent in and what they think about the election. This is far more pointless and more annoying then the viewers comment. This madness needs to stop.

Lib dems are best on talking points. All staying the same, we are moving forward. Yes, we lost some seats but gain far more seats. I think the UK might actual be turing into a nation with three major parties.

Ok its 2 and I'm really tried. Plus I'm getting a headache.