On this historic day (blah blah) Scrapbook thought a look through the archives YouTube would be in order. Got to love the BBC News theme tune in 1990!
Six resignations
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It will be interesting to see who replaces Brown, especially if the new leader is one of the “next generation” in the Labour Party. With GenJones (the previously “lost” generation between the Boomers and Xers) leaders in charge of both the Lib Dems and the Tories and large number of Joneser MPs, we are experiencing a major generational change in politics. It looks like significant media attention accompanied the same kind of generational transition in numerous other countries, but has so far ignored it here. But I did see an interesting article about the significance of this shift in leadership last week. See:
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/jonathan-pontell-cleggs-rise-is-the-sound-of-generation-jones-clearing-its-throat-1961191.html
And I thought there was a pretty decent overview about GenJones in the UK here:
http://www.generationjones.org.uk/
For some light post election relief see this clip of Jonathan Ross about Generation Jones:
http://www.youtube.com/user/GenerationJonesTV#p/a/u/1/5ZmO6Pl2E28
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