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You have been returned to office, a testament to your party’s ground game and the trust of your supporters. Yet, the numbers that secured your victory paint a more complex and troubling picture of gravitational decay.To put it in the starkest terms, the overwhelming majority of the universe of eligible voters—well over 70 per cent—did not cast their ballot for you. This is not merely a fundamentally slim mandate; it is astronomical data pointing to the existence of vast, empty spaces of apathy and dissent.

You have been returned to office, a testament to your party’s ground game and the trust of your supporters. Yet, the numbers that secured your victory paint a more complex and troubling picture of gravitational decay.To put it in the starkest terms, the overwhelming majority of the universe of eligible voters—well over 70 per cent—did not cast their ballot for you. This is not merely a fundamentally slim mandate; it is astronomical data pointing to the existence of vast, empty spaces of apathy and dissent.

The Universe is expanding, Prime Minister Holness!

The space for error has collapsed to near zero, while the space for potent, paralysing criticism has expanded outside of Gordon House to fill the vacuum. You are not so much a sun around which the political system orbits, but a star in a delicate binary system, acutely aware of the opposing pull and the immense empty spaces surrounding you.

Oct 44 min read

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