Originally Posted by lotsofmagnets

this is a situation to be a bit careful about. back in 1999 in the victorian elections a lot of people felt our then premier, jeff kennett, was becoming a bit cocky and the opposition really didn´t stand a chance and to avoid giving him a landslide a lot of people voted opposition and independents, basically what ppl called a bit of a "kick up the arse" so he´d listen a bit better to the people (general consensus was he was doing a brilliant job as premier and i think he´ll go down in history as one of, if not, the best premiers in our history.) well, apparently a few too many ppl had the same idea and he found himself just short of a majority and all the independants formed a coalition with the opposition and in the end we accidentally kicked a bit too hard and kicked him out of office. it was a farce simply because the independants really had no policy and suddenly found themselves holding the balance of power and the next 4 years was pretty fucked up. mind you, they also literally formed a gang, openly stating they did so just because they didn´t like jeff kennett which basically meant we were now governed by perry vindictiveness and a lot of good from the previous government was unneccessarily undone.