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.