Re: Aus Federal Politics thread (XII)

[JGK]

Looks like the Tories might lose 10 seats net. Not enough.

[skully]

Aye. It's gonna be close but maybe the Assassin's state may save the Tories. Mr Dog's state has let the Blues down.

Antony Green (ABC) says its gonna be a long night, but maybe the LNP squeaking home - "Govt has it's nose in front".

And BTW, does anyone know how and why electoral boundaries are redrawn? It throws a wild card into the analysis ever election.

[Big Dog]

On the plus side it looks like Windsor & Oakshot are losing.

[skully]

Aye, good news.

[skully]

Antony Green saying a 2.5% swing to Pinkos, which is not enough.

[JGK]

On the plus side it looks like Windsor & Oakshot are losing.

And that qunt David Feeny in Batman.

[skully]

Still, it's looking like the farkin minor parties will hold the balance of power. Sigh.

[skully]

What's the word in WA?

[Big Dog]

Antony Green saying a 2.5% swing to Pinkos, which is not enough.

Looking like the polls were right. Libs returned with a reduced majority. Still early days yet.

[JGK]

Still, it's looking like the farkin minor parties will hold the balance of power. Sigh.

Not sure about BoP (in HR anyway). The Greens will take one from the Pinkos, Xenophon at least one from the Tories but Palmer's seat will go back to the Tories too. So you'll have something like 2 Greens, 1 NXT, Katter, Wilkie, McGowan and maybe one other somewhere.

[JGK]

The NXT vote in SA is really astonishing. They are a genuine 3rd force.

[JGK]

That little snot Wyatt Roy is in trouble.

[skully]

Credit to Xenophon. He's been a class act for some time. A rare VoR in politics.

[lardbucket]

It's looking neck and neck on 2-party to me.

[skully]

Still, it's looking like the farkin minor parties will hold the balance of power. Sigh.

Not sure about BoP (in HR anyway).  The Greens will take one from the Pinkos, Xenophon at least one from the Tories but Palmer's seat will go back to the Tories too.     So you'll have something like 2 Greens, 1 NXT, Katter, Wilkie, McGowan and maybe one other somewhere.

Cheers MrK, but at the moment it could be very close between Tories and Pinks in seats won. So if you're right, those 6 or 7 Minors could well hold the balance, unless the Greens say "we vote with the Pinks all the time".

[skully]

ABC calling a likely Hung Parliament.

[Big Dog]

Still, it's looking like the farkin minor parties will hold the balance of power. Sigh.

Not sure about BoP (in HR anyway).  The Greens will take one from the Pinkos, Xenophon at least one from the Tories but Palmer's seat will go back to the Tories too.     So you'll have something like 2 Greens, 1 NXT, Katter, Wilkie, McGowan and maybe one other somewhere.

Cheers MrK, but at the moment it could be very close between Tories and Pinks in seats won. So if you're right, those 6 or 7 Minors could well hold the balance, unless the Greens say "we vote with the Pinks all the time".

Which they will

[skully]

True dat. Qunts.

[skully]

Just shows what I said months ago, farkin Turncoat should've gone to the polls at the beginning of the year. Tories probably would've shit in while the dill was in his honeymoon period.

[Big Dog]

ABC calling a likely Hung Parliament.

Worst possible result

[lardbucket]

Scare campaigns still work!

[horace]

That little snot Wyatt Roy is in trouble.

Huzzah. Great to see McGowan flog the vicious fascist again

[horace]

ABC calling a likely Hung Parliament.

the fascist far right are responsible for the Libs going backwards - Credlin, Mad Monk, Abetz, Dutton etc

every time Abetz and MM get a microphone, they lose votes as people can increasingly see them as the dangerous extremists they are

[horace]

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/02/tony-abbott-would-have-fought-election-budget-savings

Captain Clueless is on Gloria spelling out what his Captain's pick election strategy would have been.

Truffles has saved the day. A Mad Monk led campaign would have led to a rout.

[JGK]

ABC calling a likely Hung Parliament.

Really?

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