Canada 🤝 Australia
I came to this discussion thread to find a comment just like yours and to up-vote it. Thank you for posting that.
Would you please be so kind as to accept my up-vote? I would be deeply honoured.
Safe to say, Australians did not like what they were seeing in the USA. A resounding majority win is huge considering they only just formed minority Government in their previous term.
to the left
yet still barely over the left centre part of the political spectrum. Cautious optimism, with the heavy emphasis on cautious.
to the left
yet still barely over the left centre part of the political spectrum
Yeah, I chuckled at that. Labor is centrist with MPs soft right and soft left around the centre. The Greens are left but they lost 2 seats.
Still a huge swing left in context of the last election.
Welcome to the club Australia! Now it’s time to get to work and put measures in place to prevent what’s happening in the US from happening in our countries.
We are lucky enough to have the royals as a check and balance. The moment an authoritarian party gets into power the Governor/Queen can and has previously booted the ruling Government out. (See Prime Minister Menzies controversy)
Edit: correction it was the Whitlam controversy.
The moment an authoritarian party gets into power the Governor/Queen can and has previously booted the ruling Government out. (See Prime Minister Menzies controversy)
Could you expand on that please ? I assume you’re not referencing Gough Whitlam’s dismissal by the GG at the behest of the CIA ?
I’ve had a quick search and can’t find anything pointing to conflict between Menzies and the Crown, nor anything suggesting the monarch or the GG booted him out. Could be a searching failure on my part of course so info appreciated
Sorry I got the wrong PM, yes Whitlam not Menzies. As to the claim of the CIA conspiracy, frankly its irrelevant it is an example of the CROWN power being executed by the Governor General.
Who knows, if the US were still under the crown maybe Trump could eventually be removed, he is certainly on track to create the inflation.
So true. But the more roadblocks the better. Just to be safe.
Careful Australia. Our spineless opposition leader is having another MP resign his seat so he can run in a by-election there. The riding he chose voted 80% Tory.
That shit mostly doesn’t fly here. Parachute candidates traditionally do very poorly. We have preferential voting and about a 3rd of primary votes go to minor parties, and independents. Protest votes are a big problem for the majors to deal with.
Wait, actual?
Yup! They got the safest of safe Albertan Conservatives to just cuck himself publicly (that’s what they like to say? Right?) for Poilievre’s benefit, because an “unstoppable movement has grown under his leadership.”
So unstoppable, it was stopped by an election!
Wholly fuck, that’s cooked!
Yep
Send the Nazis packing.
And so quickly after they started counting the votes it was immediately obvious. Feels good.
i love that the WA polls hadn’t even closed when they called it
Thank you Oz! ✊
Looking forward to a fun friendly jeordies upload tonight
It was because of rap
