Australian Polls last week
The new Australian leader's win in the elections is being compared to Trump-like shock for opinion polls. Scott Morrison’s conservative coalition beat the heavily-favored Labor Party and stopped just short of a majority in the Australian elections.
& who do you all think was most surprised, Scott Morrison. He called it a miracle.
Indian Election Results today's news
PM Modi from the conservative party wins a second term by a landslide majority.
& who do you think was most surprised?
Rahul, son of former PM, grandson of former PM & great grandson of first PM
He's offered to resign his party's presidency (the show must go on)
UK elections
and now as May's term nears it's end here's an article from The Economist
The conservative party has a long history of making big bets on mavericks whenever it thinks its back is against the wall. Before they won the party leadership, three of the greatest Tory prime ministers were cordially loathed by their party. Margaret Thatcher was regarded as a polarizing ideologue who lacked the ability to connect with voters or command Parliament. Winston Churchill was a boozy bloviator and serial bungler, launching the Dardanelles campaign (1915) and clinging to the gold standard. Benjamin Disraeli was a flashy outsider who had no achievements to his name other than undermining Robert Peel over the Corn Laws. The Tories punted on all three and won big.
It looks as if the party is about to gamble again, on Boris Johnson. The former foreign secretary is the overwhelming favorite among party members, who elect the leader. His only obstacle is persuading enough of his fellow Conservative MPs to put him on the shortlist of two. So far they have been skeptical. The charge sheet against Mr Johnson is a long one: a chaotic private life, a habit of bending facts, a lack of focus and discipline, and being what Sir Max Hastings, a former editor of the Conservative house journal, the Daily Telegraph, calls a “gold-plated egomaniac”.
meet the new boss..... 
