and called a snap election. It was widely seen as a wild gamble. Well, not that wild in that, win or lose, the intrepid Emmanuel will keep his job, since it is not a presidential election.
Few of us know much about gambling now. In a world of scratch cards and lottery tickets, no one has a poker face any more. Gambling has become as mechanical as everything else. Few know how to ride the risk, how to conjugate the instinctual pull and drag of all that probability they can feel in the seat of their pants. Thus bewilderment ensues.
That last one might seem harsh , but the idea of any moral distance between them and the extremists finally fell off the mantelpiece last week and, like fine china, it made a lovely tinkling sound when it shattered. That is, until Friday, when there was a court hearing about the dismissal where Ciotti’s lawyer argued, among other things, that he should be allowed the freedom of the offices because he was only 5ft 2in and didn’t want to get thumped. I’m not making this up. End result?and he was party leader again. It was as though, near the end of the long run of the TV series, the writers had gone on a two-day meth-bender and said, bugger it, let’s just have some fun.
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