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An incredible number of words have already been spilled on the ‘miracle’ election – an election that was a vigorous, noisy and dramatic vote for a familiar status quo. Voters across the country chose to favour a party with no policy platform other than to flatten the tax system to fatten the rich.

It looks like the ghosts of the last 15 years

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