The old age is gone for good/welcome the young one....
So, it’s done. Rudd is our new PM, it appears that Maxine may be dancing the charlston on Howard’s political grave and even our early morning trip to the hardware store felt happier.
Because I am, as MsB has observed, Totally Hard Core, I was handing out How to Votes yesterday. This isn’t new for me, although it was strange to be doing it in an irretrievably Liberal seat*. I love doing HTVs, there is a strange sort of excitement and camaraderie that happens on polling booths no matter what party you're handing out for….and it’s always nice to have gnarly old goat dudes with great big bushy beards loom into your personal space yelling “WE’RE GOING TO BE CELEBRATING TONIGHT, AREN’T WE?”
One of the local churches delivered morning tea to each and every booth volunteer in our town. Morning tea = packet of chips, chocolate chip biscuits, m+ms, jubes, a piece of fruit (of our own choice) and a bottle of water. Now that’s (excuse the pun) service.
I have no stamina for political nail-biting anymore, so I used my stores of alcohol to be non-messy drunk by 8pm. We held off on champagne until 9:30pm, but we were so busy toasting Howard’s defeat speech that the house was dry by the time our new PM took the stage.
Mr Fix has already observed an anti-Rudd backlash on some of the forums he regularly visits, so it’s fair to say that he probably should avoid them for the next two days (although two days ago, he himself was convinced he was a DEMOCRAT of all things).
Grizzlewick saw the fabulous Senator Penny Wong on this morning’s Insiders and yelled and pointed:
“Penny Wong! She’s AWESOME, isn’t she?”
This was after I made him ring up his grandmother and say:
“Guess what we did last night Nana? We got rid of John Howard!”
It really melts the heart.
I may be able to form some more coherent notion about what this means in time, but for now, I’m just really happy.
* In the end, the swing here was 4.2% to Labor (2PP) and 2.5% to the Greens (primary), so it’s now below 10 per cent and what you might consider “difficult to win” (as opposed to “for crying out loud, forget it”).
Because I am, as MsB has observed, Totally Hard Core, I was handing out How to Votes yesterday. This isn’t new for me, although it was strange to be doing it in an irretrievably Liberal seat*. I love doing HTVs, there is a strange sort of excitement and camaraderie that happens on polling booths no matter what party you're handing out for….and it’s always nice to have gnarly old goat dudes with great big bushy beards loom into your personal space yelling “WE’RE GOING TO BE CELEBRATING TONIGHT, AREN’T WE?”
One of the local churches delivered morning tea to each and every booth volunteer in our town. Morning tea = packet of chips, chocolate chip biscuits, m+ms, jubes, a piece of fruit (of our own choice) and a bottle of water. Now that’s (excuse the pun) service.
I have no stamina for political nail-biting anymore, so I used my stores of alcohol to be non-messy drunk by 8pm. We held off on champagne until 9:30pm, but we were so busy toasting Howard’s defeat speech that the house was dry by the time our new PM took the stage.
Mr Fix has already observed an anti-Rudd backlash on some of the forums he regularly visits, so it’s fair to say that he probably should avoid them for the next two days (although two days ago, he himself was convinced he was a DEMOCRAT of all things).
Grizzlewick saw the fabulous Senator Penny Wong on this morning’s Insiders and yelled and pointed:
“Penny Wong! She’s AWESOME, isn’t she?”
This was after I made him ring up his grandmother and say:
“Guess what we did last night Nana? We got rid of John Howard!”
It really melts the heart.
I may be able to form some more coherent notion about what this means in time, but for now, I’m just really happy.
* In the end, the swing here was 4.2% to Labor (2PP) and 2.5% to the Greens (primary), so it’s now below 10 per cent and what you might consider “difficult to win” (as opposed to “for crying out loud, forget it”).
posted by gigglewick at
1:19 pm
3 Comments:
It was good, but not as good as the 2002 Vic election.The landslide was so big in that one that the Libs were stunned and the TV coverage captured it all. That's what I wanted in this one too.
Oh Gigglewick - what a triumph! I can't think of the future right now. I'm too busy relishing the demise of Howard.
Oh, my head!
PS: That young Grizzlewick will get to Parliament yet.
Firstly, congratulations on the awesome hardcoreness.
Secondly, it turns out that you don't live anywhere near where I thought you lived if that was your local election result. Just sayin'
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