The cost of another election
Here is more proof that I am not exactly a team player. After the recent federal elections the leader of one party failed to get a seat in the legislature. His whole party failed to get the best seats in the house and much of the blame was laid at his feet. However in one of those astonishing moves, another recently elected member of parliament has decided to let his seat go back into the general pool. To be available for someone else in the byelection. In any case you’re wondering someone else has already claimed that seat. Has it not only did he lose the general elections for his party, failed to get his own seat but he now expects someone else to forgo all their opportunity to get a place in government, the requisite salary and pension benefit. After all, the current former leader believes that he is much better than anyone else in his game. I would much prefer to have a system where when you quit your seat or failed to get your seat it just gets erased. None of this fake handed off to the better good of the party is fair, because in reality the party is an artificial construct of all of our members of parlement as individuals. I really hope that the people in that particular riding are magnanimous. It would be so funny to see another electoral effort fail. And I enjoy a good giggle as much as the next. I will be watching and hoping that karma is real. But what do I know. I am not in politics for this reason. I do not have that attitude that only the party knows what is right. And nobody wants to mention the cost of running yet another election. An unnecessary election. There should be more talk about this.
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