Tidal waives

I couldn't help thinking, this morning when I got up at about 6am (5amUK), about the thunderous sound of the waves coming down on the rocks below my cottage like falling buildings.

I had been reading the scarcely credible rigmarole about Gordon Brown and his refusal to let go the door to Number Ten. It was Mugabe all over again.

Why wasn't Dave in there like a herd of turtles within minutes of the results being known?

Does this mean, I wonder, tanks in the streets and in front of Whitehall?