Not the least of the entertainments* between now and polling day will be seeing how the Guardian manage to keep up their exhausting warnings of the dire consequences that will inevitably follow any Conservative victory. Nothing but nothing will be too trivial for the paper and that’s fine: free press and all that. The best so far was the suggestion that the Tories are extremists who favour US-style gun laws so their youthful paramilitaries can storm NHS hospitals to control costs by executing anyone a) who voted Labour or b) looks like they might have voted Labour.
Today’s effort is only marginally less ridiculous. Apparently the Northern Ireland “peace process**” will be wrecked if the Tories get in. Why, look, even George W Bush has been on the blower to warn Dave to “reign in” the Conservatives’ “Unionist partners”. It says something about the current mood in Farringdon, I think, when George W Bush is presented as the good guy.
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