Since there's no chance of escaping the country tonight thanks to the evil Icelandic volcano ashes engulfing the skies of Europe, I suppose we'll all have to sit in front of the idiot box and watch the three stooges slap, poke and punch each other, as they attempt to persuade the bored masses of their abilities to cock up the next four or five years. The good news is that Border TV have now joined the likes of BBC1 Scotland, BBC2 Scotland, STV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 and will be broadcasting the Tartan Overlord's address to the nation at 18.25 after the joy that is Lookaround.
As readers of the blog know this wasn't happening as of yesterday. A couple of calls and some emails from yours truly and common sense prevailed.
The rather modest lady (who doesn't wish to be named) at Border TV and her sensible colleagues in the ITV network who made it happen have my thanks and that of the 250,000 other folk who live in the south of Scotland who are stuck between Selkirk and a hard place when it comes to getting news about what's happening in their own country.
Now of course if Labour are returned at the General Election, Lookaround will cease to exist and some strange conglomeration headed up by a Welsh production company and the Daily Mail will assume responsibility for getting local news to the aforementioned 250,000 potential advertising customers. Hopefully someone in this new outfit will make sure that lapses like the one mentioned above don't happen again. Naturally I hope Labour are humiliated beyond compare and this scenario won't happen. In that case, Border TV get your act together and Cameron think devolution of Broadcasting, you know it makes sense!
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