Is up early in the morning.
I have an exam at 8am tomorrow. Not too concerned.
So this nation elected a minority government again, and since this particular party that sort of won doesn't like to cooperate with the other parties, the other parties decided that rather than spend another term fighting and getting nothing done that they'd form a coalition and let the winning party know they weren't going to get pushed around because of a technicality.
The plan was that as a coalition the opposition parties would form a majority and would be able to get stuff done. It'd be the kind of stuff that all members of the coalition could agree on. Which would be great, because usually that kind of stuff gets left out to rot while everyone bickers and argues over the stuff that only one party wants to do.
But since the prime minister of the ruling minority party only wants to govern if he can govern on his terms, and his terms alone, he's convinced the governor general to put the whole term of parliament on hold while his party reworks their plan for the next term.
Now, hopefully they'll come back at the end of january with a budget and a plan that everyone can agree on, but my prediction is that it'll simply be something inoffensive and for the next four years or so nothing will get done and the prime minister will blame it on having a minority government. The country will sink deeper into a recession and he'll say, "See, I told you we needed a majority! Now let's have another election and this time you better give me a majority because there's no other way out of this mess!" And when that happens he'll use his power to give tax breaks to all the major corporations who'll use the money to open new factories in other countries where the labour is cheap.
OR the coalition will say, "don't matter, we still don't have any confidence in you, screw off" and they'll form their own government.
And everyone should just shut up about the separatists because they are good for the rhetoric and they won't be able to separate anyway, so just cool it.
So this nation elected a minority government again, and since this particular party that sort of won doesn't like to cooperate with the other parties, the other parties decided that rather than spend another term fighting and getting nothing done that they'd form a coalition and let the winning party know they weren't going to get pushed around because of a technicality.
The plan was that as a coalition the opposition parties would form a majority and would be able to get stuff done. It'd be the kind of stuff that all members of the coalition could agree on. Which would be great, because usually that kind of stuff gets left out to rot while everyone bickers and argues over the stuff that only one party wants to do.
But since the prime minister of the ruling minority party only wants to govern if he can govern on his terms, and his terms alone, he's convinced the governor general to put the whole term of parliament on hold while his party reworks their plan for the next term.
Now, hopefully they'll come back at the end of january with a budget and a plan that everyone can agree on, but my prediction is that it'll simply be something inoffensive and for the next four years or so nothing will get done and the prime minister will blame it on having a minority government. The country will sink deeper into a recession and he'll say, "See, I told you we needed a majority! Now let's have another election and this time you better give me a majority because there's no other way out of this mess!" And when that happens he'll use his power to give tax breaks to all the major corporations who'll use the money to open new factories in other countries where the labour is cheap.
OR the coalition will say, "don't matter, we still don't have any confidence in you, screw off" and they'll form their own government.
And everyone should just shut up about the separatists because they are good for the rhetoric and they won't be able to separate anyway, so just cool it.