After the election
Time to look back on yesterday. After sleeping well I have had the chance to analyze the national election. Some winners and some losers. A lot of money put back into the economy. Some questions about what comes next. All in all, I am relieved. We have a new Prime Minister who is the same person as the day before. Locally same political party captured all the seats in our area. Sure they replaced the people but the idea is still there. Our government is not on the point of collapse and their dollar is still worth something close to a dollar. I am relieved. What comes next is the inevitable shake up for the political parties. After you spend millions and millions of dollars your members have expectations. In many cases they have not been met. We now go into a long summer of political maintenance. Trying to get some people back into the positions of real power. I had my usual pleasure of listening to numbers that really meant very little. My big take away is that the map has some new names on it. Reflecting changes in population centres. We always need new maps right? For those who were tasked with reporting and analysis, they did well no real moments of collapse. All fitted nicely into a four hour period ending a big night. That magical moment where the government announces which party will be in power went by with all the noise of clouds on a summer day. I am glad in retrospect that no candidate wasted his or her time coming to visit. My voice is backed by one vote and as the numbers grow one is inconsequential. There is one question remaining on the table. In theory we now have a minority government and we have had those before. I imagine that we will return to the polls within a year.
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