Reasonably than being the loser the commentators have been flogging, the previous premier’s election end result is definitely trying rattling good.
Poor previous Dominic Perrottet! Not solely does he should do one thing like whip himself throughout his bare again with a metal-studded cat-o’-nine-tails each night as a part of his faith (supply: trailer of the film of The Da Vinci Code), however the normal cataclysm of the Liberal Celebration within the Aston conflagration has robbed him of his second of glory.
On the Saturday night time of the NSW election, Perrottet was assailed by the commentators for taking the Liberals to a different of their catastrophic losses. Stated commentators have been additionally assailing one another about having run limitless information tales about how shut the election can be, regardless of the polls displaying a 55-45 end result. But it surely was Perrottet who obtained an actual whipping. So the night wasn’t all dangerous.
One week on and Perrottet is trying fairly, fairly good. He’s managed to carry Labor beneath a majority, and maintain off challenges in quite a few marginals. Forty-five Labor seats to 36 Coalition seats. After 11 years in energy, quite a few scandals and — a private favorite of mine — constructing a tram system with two incompatible gauges, 36 seats is a triumph.
Learn extra about how Dominic Perrottet is, in truth, a reasonably severe winner.
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