"incidentally, did anyone see any street parties?"

I live in a rabidly-safe-seat Tory constituency - we've had a Tory MP continuously since 1924, which I find rather surprising as ours is a rural area with inner-city problems of serious unemployment, drug-addiction, and crime - our current Tory MP will have held the seat for forty years next year. Who votes the bugger in is completely beyond my understanding.

With regard to the Jubilee, street-parties etc., it felt as though the entire Platty-Joobs-Bullshit-Circus passed us completely by - absolute tumbleweed! No parties, our Beacon wasn't lit, and there was very little bunting about the place.

As a result, my faith in the people of this area is restored.