September 13, 2012
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(written on 21 May 2013)
The picture shows an election poster, lying on the street, filthy and ready to get swiped up by the city’s street cleaners. That’s how quickly the general election we had in this country yesterday is history again. The party in this poster did not do well, and in any case much worse than predicted. Quite surprisingly it seems likely that the new government will be a coalition of only two parties (liberals and social-democrats) where everyone had expected the lowest number possible for a majority cabinet to be four or five parties. The Dutch electorate moved to the centre in yesterday’s election, and for the country that seems to be a blessing to me.
In other news, Nikon announced a new camera, the D600, and that is now stuck in my mind. This is how it always goes. At some point I decide that I will need a new camera, and then I see one that I really like (the D600 in this case) and I know that there is no way that camera will get out of my mind again. I will buy it at some point. Not now, but the thing will keep nagging. At some point this camera will be mine. Trust me, I have a lot of experience with this. Resistance is futile.
