Stephen CollinsSure. But one seat off 20% of first preferences statewide still means you're irrelevant. The problem here is with conservatism. It is not fit for purpose.
Tom Roberts@trib As someone who's always tried to argue the Greens are relevant at 12% of the vote...
I can't deny that One Nation are relevant at 20%.
I'm not sure how the SA parliament works, but federally 20% gets a lot of senate seats, and will be influential.
@tomroberts I think they're talking about 1-2 more Upper House seats in SA. So still just noise.
It's the same problem the Greens have: plenty of voters, but thinly spread.
PaulPotentially 3 upper house seats and maybe 3 or 4 in the lower house. Not huge numbers but the result confirmed the polling was accurate
@HardBeingGreen @tomroberts also confirming the ongoing decay of moderate conservatism into a meaningless rump and that conservative voters will choose racism and grievance every time.
Conservatism is a disease. Centrism is equally thus. Notionally progressive parties need to take note and act of reasonable and progressive policy platforms that better their communities. Unfortunately, I do not hold out hope.
ǝlqɯnɹ uoɯᴉS@trib there's gotta be some ALP hard heads in Albo's ear suggesting a finishing blow. Call a snap election and watch One Notion become the opposition and the Tories and Cunties completely wiped out. Then stand back and wait for the ON implosion.
@shermozle you love to see it.
@trib Would take a bit more ticker than we've seen from our arch conservative PM.
@shermozle does he have a ticker? He definitely doesn't have a spine. To be unfondly remembered as our most flaccid PM.
@trib You have the ball, the goal is wide open, the goalie has wandered off the pitch. And Albo's not quite sure what to do. How will The Australian report it if he takes a shot?
MΛTT@mattro if you can call 4 seats an opposition against whatever Labor end up with. Honestly, a government needn't pay a second's attention to that (this is a bad thing, but you know that). A government with that much control will either go rogue and follow their worst impulses or bad through complacency and do fuck all.
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