Post Electioneering
May. 19th, 2019 10:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingmanThe morning after the night before - when all the votes... well, most of the votes were counted. And what we have is a Prime Minister returned for a 3 year term, whom nobody thought would win. I'm not even sure he did
Certainly not the Labor Party, who campaigned with a raft of policies, a united team, but a bit of a lame duck leader who struggles to communicate clearly across the social spectrum & has the electric personality of a used-up 9 volt battery. Compare this to the Liberal Party, who campaigned on little to no policy announcements, a fractured & disunited team who can't agree on anything, but a leader who put all the focus on himself & went at it like the Energiser Bunny, leading to speculation & cartoons about what he'd done with the rest of the team during the campaign...
One he couldn't control is Tony Abbott, who, let's face it, couldn't be controlled with a cattle prod. Facing a real struggle in his own Seat against a credible Independent opponent, he was vocal about all the things he believes, which were all the things that contributed to his electorate looking for an alternative - climate change denial, same-sex marriage opposition, his role in ousting Malcolm Turnbull & support for right-wing thug Peter Dutton to replace him, his support for convicted paedophile Cardinal George Pell... & when that didn't work, did what he does best - ran a negative campaign, claiming his opponent is a Labor Party stooge, despite all the evidence disproving it... Justifiably, he was the first MP last night to give a concession speech, having been emphatically dumped by the people of Warringah - myself included
But that's not really how the rest of the night played out. Where the Liberal Party were expected to struggle, they won. Where the Labor Party were expected to win, they didn't. While this morning, it's still unclear if the Liberal Party has won enough seats to govern in its own right, it's certain that the Labor Party can't - having fallen irretrievably behind during counting last night
There were some other bits of good news... Right wing racist nutjob Fraser Anning was booted out, Clive Palmer, a billionaire mining magnate who spent 80 million on election advertising for his own 'Party', but won't pay out his workers from a nickel refinery that closed down, did not win a single seat in either the Lower or Upper Houses... & the Legalise Marijuana Party are still out there trying to get a Senate seat, as they have been for as long as I remember.
Recent changes to the Liberal Party's rules, mean they can't knife another Prime Minister, so it looks like we'll have Mr Morrison for the next 3 years. The only problem with that, is we also get all those other Liberal Party guys he gagged & locked in a room during the campaign, in the hope we'd forget about them...
Best quote of the entire campaign came last night during counting. Liberal Party Senator Arthur Sinodinos was asked about his party's chances in some marginal seats & whether they had lost them. He replied, warning against "... premature extrapolation"
Arthur for PM!!!!
Certainly not the Labor Party, who campaigned with a raft of policies, a united team, but a bit of a lame duck leader who struggles to communicate clearly across the social spectrum & has the electric personality of a used-up 9 volt battery. Compare this to the Liberal Party, who campaigned on little to no policy announcements, a fractured & disunited team who can't agree on anything, but a leader who put all the focus on himself & went at it like the Energiser Bunny, leading to speculation & cartoons about what he'd done with the rest of the team during the campaign...
One he couldn't control is Tony Abbott, who, let's face it, couldn't be controlled with a cattle prod. Facing a real struggle in his own Seat against a credible Independent opponent, he was vocal about all the things he believes, which were all the things that contributed to his electorate looking for an alternative - climate change denial, same-sex marriage opposition, his role in ousting Malcolm Turnbull & support for right-wing thug Peter Dutton to replace him, his support for convicted paedophile Cardinal George Pell... & when that didn't work, did what he does best - ran a negative campaign, claiming his opponent is a Labor Party stooge, despite all the evidence disproving it... Justifiably, he was the first MP last night to give a concession speech, having been emphatically dumped by the people of Warringah - myself included
But that's not really how the rest of the night played out. Where the Liberal Party were expected to struggle, they won. Where the Labor Party were expected to win, they didn't. While this morning, it's still unclear if the Liberal Party has won enough seats to govern in its own right, it's certain that the Labor Party can't - having fallen irretrievably behind during counting last night
There were some other bits of good news... Right wing racist nutjob Fraser Anning was booted out, Clive Palmer, a billionaire mining magnate who spent 80 million on election advertising for his own 'Party', but won't pay out his workers from a nickel refinery that closed down, did not win a single seat in either the Lower or Upper Houses... & the Legalise Marijuana Party are still out there trying to get a Senate seat, as they have been for as long as I remember.
Recent changes to the Liberal Party's rules, mean they can't knife another Prime Minister, so it looks like we'll have Mr Morrison for the next 3 years. The only problem with that, is we also get all those other Liberal Party guys he gagged & locked in a room during the campaign, in the hope we'd forget about them...
Best quote of the entire campaign came last night during counting. Liberal Party Senator Arthur Sinodinos was asked about his party's chances in some marginal seats & whether they had lost them. He replied, warning against "... premature extrapolation"
Arthur for PM!!!!
