Monday 26th November.

14 days to go.

The political situation takes another twist in the morning paper. The Government is challenging the Constitution. They are also indicating that they want to sit on the 31st of December. Now this leads to an interesting point. If they hear the “No Confidence” motion prior to the Budget, a new Government has to be sworn in. If this is the case there will not be enough time to pass the budget.

If they hear the budget and pass it, the PM will dissolve Parliament without hearing other business and if that happens, he will still be in power until the next sitting. Even if the Parliament sits on December 13 the Opposition are saying that they will not have enough time to form a Government and pass the Budget prior to the end of the month.

This to me indicates how shaky the Opposition are. If I were the leader I would form my Government and tell the GG to be ready on the afternoon of the 13th to swear in the new PM and Ministers. That would give them a lot of time to accept the “Budget”. Even if they had to create a new Budget they could pass it then make amendments if necessary. In their ranks they have a man who was the Minister of Finance for all but the last few weeks.
It may be that the Opposition does not want to name Ministers before they overturn the PM because they may then lose some that they promised things to. I am sure more will unfold in the next week.

At work today I have to push through and get a couple of my projects started and hopefully well and truly finished by the 10th December. I know one will be fine, I just hope the second will not fall apart.

The New Guy came in to work for his first day. He has been looking at what Duke has been doing and just trying to get a feel for the place. We have booked our vehicle in for a service and 2 new tyres to be fitted.

We will probably get a seat cover and the car washed in place of the work we want doing. It happens here like that!