So, according to the thinking of some in the Nationalist Party, they deserved better. Their humiliating defeat should not have been, they reckon. Which means, of course that the electorate misjudged the situation. Don’t they ever learn?

I like the interpretation of the result by a senior PN official, that they were stabilising. I agree. Having gone down they cannot be more stable than by touching bottom.

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