Monday 12th November.

28 days to go.

Well a couple of Government members defected to the Opposition today. Later in the day some defected back. They were rewarded with Cabinet Posts. I do not think this strategy will work. The PM needs to find a few more Ministries. There will be no more rewards for those returning to the Government.

The Governor General did not recall Parliament. This keeps the PM happy as he has time to collect some numbers. The letters page and public comment page of the paper has been full of complaints about the Governor General lately. He called in a spokeswoman for one of the womens groups to his Office a couple of weeks ago. Depending on which version you like, he either spoke to her in a fatherly manner to explain his role, or he and the Parliamentary Secretary and another aide intimidated her to stop her organisation from criticising the Government and PM.

Several days of to-ing and fro-ing with explaining the situation have occured. There was an article informing the Governor General that his role is supposed to be Apolitical and that in a Democracy you are allowed to have different views to the views of the Government and you are allowed to express them. So based on the story, is it a surprise that the GG did not recall Parliament?

The other thing mentioned in the article was that the GG is taking Legal advice from the Attorney General. The same Attorney General who is a friend of the PM, who is avoiding extradition to Australia and the same Atorney General the new Opposition group have said they will extradite to Australia within days of them winning power. Needless to say, the Opposition is posturing towards legal action against the GG.

Another organisation has been given instructions to drive to work in convoy. They have been told to stay in the King Sol until things settle down. There are no signs of any public unrest and other than the Polititians no one is hot under the collar. The Opposition are the only ones to ask for calm and let the Parliament fight out the situation. In the meantime we just get on with work as normal.