Worst Person Of The Day: 21st July 2020

It's time once again for the miscreants, mountebanks and maniacs.  The irrespressible and the irredeenable.  It's not totally serious, it's not totally silly, but it is my nominations for the Worst Person Of The Day.

The bronze medal goes to Newsquest for an article that I saw on the Falmouth Packet website, called How To Unlock Supermarket Trolleys without £1, but they obviously didn't think what they were writing, because just before they shared the tip that you can use 2 20p coins instead of a pound coin, they wrote... "As the use of cash declines while contactless payments rises, shoppers who forget to bring a coin for the trolley are faced with having to cram everything into a small basket."  Yeah, I think if somebody isn't using cash any more, they're unlikely to have 2 20p coins.  By the way, a tip of my own, for less than the pound coin, you can buy trolley tokens which if you don't keep cash on you anymore, you can use those to access your trolley.  And you don't necessarily have to pay cash for them either...

The silver goes to Conservative MP for Delyn, Rob Roberts, who is reportedly facing allegations of inappropriate behaviour.  BBC Wales has seen messages sent to an intern inviting her to "fool around" with him.  He's also admitted to asking out another House Of Commons employee, who as a result ended up moving to a new post.  The party has described his actions as completely inappropriate and confirmed the matter is under investigation.  He's only been an MP since December 2019, so it's nice to see he's learned the ropes so quickly... 😒

But for our winner we're going international, to New Zealand and National Party MP for Rangitata, Andrew Falloon, well, he was a National Party MP, he's resigned from the New Zealand parliament and from politics, effective immediately.  The reason for his resignation, he'd admitted that he'd sent a pornographic image to a 19 year old woman.  Ah, this is so refreshing to see.  Apparently, according to National Party leader Judith Collins, this was so egregious that they didn't even want to wait until September's upcoming General Election in the country, they wanted rid of him now, and so he's gone. This reminds me of the dim and distant past of British Politics, when politicians resigned over things they should resign about, When was that?  Oh yeah, before Brexit!

Andrew "Bye Felicia" Falloon, the Worst Person Of The Day.

Australia Votes 2007: The stats

I promised earlier that I would report the stories of this election and that's exactly what I'm going to do. First, we're going to look at this election statistically.

Two seats in the Australian House of Representatives did not go to any party, but to independents. Kennedy in Queensland went to the Independent Bob Katter, who was a National Party MP until 2001, and Tony Windsor in the New England constituency in New South Wales.

The National Party has 10 MPs so far, The Liberal Party has 48 MPs and Labour has a massive 83 seats. 76 seats are needed for victory, so Labour will form the next government.

Looking at the State of the Parties, we see that Labour and Liberals dominated the voting.



Labour had 43.5% of the vote, Liberals 36.5%, the Greens 7.8%, the National Party 5.5% and Family First just 1.9%.

In the Senate, the Liberal coalition is still the biggest force with 37 senators, Labour with 32 senators, the Greens have 5 senators, Family First has 1 senator and there is 1 other.

Okay, those are the 'boring' but essential numbers out the way. Next, we'll start looking at the other stories that came out of this election.