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In a shock announcement which surprised and stunned the media, Tony Blair announced that June 7th would be the date of the General Election. This unexpected announcement, which caused frantic news-gathering teams to rush into action immediately, caught everyone, including those newspapers which like to believe that they have a hot line into his inner-sanctum, on the hop.
The news, which definitely hadn't been leaked to TV, radio and Print media months in advance, was announced in a school in Bermondsey. Earlier Mr Blair had made a secret visit to Buckingham Palace, a meeting so secret that even the Queen didn't know about it, and was in the bath when Mr Blair sneaked into the palace through a back entrance, to ask if she'd let him dissolve parliament.
After drying herself off, the Queen agreed to an audience with Mr Blair. She sat in her dressing gown as Tony asked for a dissolution of parliament on Monday. The Queen, annoyed by the interruption to her bath-time, particularly as she'd just got her favourite rubber duck out, at first refused, and instead informed him that he would have to "get down on all fours and act like my favourite Corgi Bingo" before she would even begin to consider his request. After a tiring hour or so of playing fetch and eating Chum from a bowl, Blair asked again for the dissolution and this time the Queen agreed, but not before taking him from walkies round the palace grounds, much to the delight of the tourists.
After his humiliation, Tony made his way to the school and announced then General Election to he assembled journalists. A group which consisted of Lisa Swain, editor of the School Newspaper, and Billy Wilson, chief reporter who had no interest in journalism, but a healthy interest in Lisa Swain. The two budding journalist, or rather, one budding journalist, one just budding, quickly realised that they had a major scoop and rushed off to sell their tale to the highest bidder. The Sun eventually giving them 3 Pokemon cards and a pack of 20 fags for their transcript of the speech.
