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I dearly hope I can still be wrong on this, that I got it all backwards, and the Opportunity Party were all along pulling an impressively cunning ruse to 'pull votes from the Right' and take them to a Left coalition'.
And yet that very notion continues to feel like a generous portion of mass self-deception atop a populist biscuit that just melts in your mouth, slathered in lush, lightly caramelised dollops of Hope.
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Hope I'm wrong.
@controlfreak Yep, they actually flipped from most votes to most seats. They lied. Incredible that people are not talking about it more.
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Is that even possible if the preliminary results don't change for the better after specials are counted?
@RedRobyn If the Right bloc can hold seats in the Specials, then I think we'll possibly see a confidence-and-supply relationship emerge between the Right and Opp. Q's consistent signalling is that she wants to work with the Right, NAT in particular, whom her own family have a long history with. One thing to consider raised by a friend today, is that the goal may be to work with the Right, shed the disillusioned Left and Center voters that believed in them, pick up a tide of Right voters.
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There's a possibility many of their policy wonks genuinely believe left and right are outdated concepts. Often people who tell me that have a bit of libertarian in their make up, but not much awareness that why the left is inconvenient is that the bottom line of caring for people and the planet we live isn't really consistent with the inequality inevitable with unfettered market forces.
I hope we are both wrong and that Michaela is right. Maybe we'll see a confidence and supply agreement that really does get genuine climate gains
@JulianOliver I dic think though that she was not signalling a preference for any party, just that she'd talk first for the party with the largest vote share
@JulianOliver sadly you were 100%.
Wild that in your previous was the quote from TOP that they will first talk with the party with "the most votes", which is Labour! Now the flacid fash throating media is hleping ALL the liars incl TOP saying "most seats". Conveniently chucking out the cashed up stupidity that this was an FPP election and a fair whack of such stupidity would not have mathed in STV. They just love losers winning in a race to the bottom to gut the place.
Seeing tech bros on vivaldi server doing pretzels to make the corpo op that is TOP into anything other than an op is telling. I guess that is more paletable to the 6% instead of doing a minimum amount of logic and just getting the Greens to 20% for actual damn policy. Exhausting.