At the airport getting ready to catch the next flight out of Wellington to Australia. I had a good sleep last night and I made sure that everything was ready so the only thing I had to worry about was packing my laptop and leaving on time. I left around 20 minutes before the train arrived because I was pulling the luggage behind me I realised it would take longer than usual. I arrived at the train station and saw mum there – she had taken the earlier train and decided to wait for me so we could catch the train together. Once we arrived at the Wellington train station we caught the flyer bus out to the airport where I am at the moment enjoying a coffee and a scone before jumping on the flight.
I’m still very much ruminating over the recent election and there is plenty of frustration by the online left that they had expected a change in government even though it was very much unlikely. If there are three points that the left can take away from this election it would be this:
a) There needs to be better coordination with other parties on the left regarding strategic voting because until such point that rank choice voting is introduced for electorates. For example, Mount Roskill would have been an easy win for Labour had the votes not been split between Labour, Greens and TOP.
b) On a side note to there, there are 399,999 special votes to be counted (link) and given how close quite a few of the electorate seats are, it may result in the right wing majority disappearing (I’m not trying to seed any hopium but it is important to acknowledge how close the election is).
c) The right wing have two of their three years with Donald Trump in the White House and a lot of crazy stuff can happen – whether the right wing like it or not they will be blamed for everything going wrong, the results aren’t being delivered then the excuse of “but, but, it we’re dealing with the mess left over from Labour” isn’t going to cut the mustard.
