Meanwhile downunder, we had a Federal election last weekend. The current Prime Minister decided to call an early election for both houses of Parliament because he wanted a more friendly Senate that would pass some Government legislation that was being held up by the Opposition with the help of a rag tag bunch of minor parties. The Government even passed new Senate voting rules that would supposedly make it easier to achieve the desired result.
The outcome? We still don't have one. Neither of the major parties has achieved an absolute majority in the lower house and minority government is looking as the most likely result. We probably wont have a result for about a week as there are still about 10 seats that are too close to call. In the Senate, the electorate has thumbed their collective noses at both partles and elected an even more diverse bunch of ratbags than existed in the previous Senate. Getting legislation past this mob will involve a level of negotiation skills that hasn't been demonstrated in the past. Possibly tame by UK & US politics but at least we're doing our bit to add to the current wave of political dick-headedness. Cheers Brian On Tue, Jul 5, 2016, at 04:00 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > Politics in the US is insane. It appears almost rational, however, > compared with what has been going on in England and Europe after the > Brexit > vote. > > Is this right? The PM resigned, and then the Brexit leaders in his > party, > Johnson and Gove, said they are not interested in the job, leaving the > field open to a steon Remain Supporter. Farange, who started it all, > said > "My work here is done," and resigned the leadershipof his party., but > remains a member of the European Parliament. The Labour Leader won't > quit, > so everyone else in his party leadership quit instead. No one on either > side of the referendum made any plans for what to do if Leave won, and > the > current PM refuses to do anything, leaving it up to his successor, who > may > be opposed to leaving. Europe wants Britain to leave now, but Britain > refuses to do anything. Even if they do, the Scots may have veto power > over the UK's withdrawal, and everyone in Northern Ireland appears to be > applying for Irish passports. > > This is a rude analysis of the situation: > https://www.buzzfeed.com/lukebailey/the-crisis-explained-maybe?utm_term=.tjWBLd0vL&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=News%20-%200704%20Monday&utm_content=News%20-%200704%20Monday+CID_6bc9f3d10b2c8409d3d9c5498cef83b1&utm_source=BuzzFeed%20Newsletters#.fervzm5qz > > And Down Under, things have taken a pretty strange turn as well: > https://www.buzzfeed.com/robstott/oh-god-oh-god-oh-god?utm_term=.ek5BnVRXn&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=News%20-%200704%20Monday&utm_content=News%20-%200704%20Monday+CID_6bc9f3d10b2c8409d3d9c5498cef83b1&utm_source=BuzzFeed%20Newsletters#.ivggOx4XO > > It appears to me that the only person who can look at this without > screaming out loudnis Putin, the Mad Russian. > > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -- -- http://www.fastmail.com - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
