Comment on Labor concedes Tasmanian election, leaving Liberals to negotiate with new crossbench
dillekant@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
Pretty scummy. We elect representatives and they have a duty to try and form a government. If they don’t want to form government then vacate the slot.
MHLoppy@fedia.io 3 months ago
[Based on ABC's calls] They would've needed the support of every other non-Coalition member to successfully form a minority government, which they might have considered untenable.
dillekant@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
To maybe make my point clear: The Greens didn’t “concede”, and neither did JLN. Labor appears to be stating (although the auto-summary below seems to throw some grey area in here) that they’re just not interested in a minority government, and I just don’t think that’s what the voters wanted them to do here.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Yeah if you’re going only on the seats that have been officially called so far on the ABC, it looks premature. Labor + Greens have more seats than LNP. But dig in more and the likely winners of spots not yet called, and it paints a very different picture. Heaps more LNP is likely, and it’s just a question of which ones get in.
MHLoppy@fedia.io 3 months ago
Following up (more generally than at your reply specifically), our lord and saviour Antony Green has the following counts/predictions:
Additionally, Labor apparently said (quoting ABC news coverage) they were unwilling to form government with Greens, so rip.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 months ago
lol bs. They can afford to say that because they know it’s not feasible. 100% if Labor + Greens had a combined majority, but Labor alone did not, they’d do it.
But honestly I fucking hate that Labor pulls this shit. We need to embrace coalitions (lower case c!!), not play into the LNP’s anti-democratic bullshit.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 3 months ago
Who are the independents? Are we talking teals or cookers?