This indirect electoral maths suggests that Ukip's outsize influence on the national debate (relative to their parliamentary presence) could be set to continue as the major parties seek to fend off the threat in their key marginal constituencies.
Three years of drought, decades of overuse and now the oil industry's outsize demands on water for fracking are running down reservoirs and underground aquifers.
I'm just back from Perth where Stephen Smith and I had Australia-United States ministerial consultations … She stepped off her big plane, eyes hidden behind large-framed oval sunglasses, her hair pulled back, an outsize light blue jacket and black slacks.
This is not necessarily a bad thing, given that all taxes are distorting, and that there really is no way to deal with today's outsize debt burdens that does not impinge on growth in some way.
As history would prove, that was just as the tide was about to turn, and no one rode the bull market wave that followed with more style and panache than Gross, a man of outsize personality.
These days, we might giggle at these kitschy Big Things, but these outsize odes to local industry, lovingly fashioned out of chicken wire and cement, had a role to play.
Those liberals (like me) who take the bait, are to blame for their outsize influence.
It is only when you approach the oil-and-gas structure that outsize pipes and valves make its bulk apparent.
Iceland, another island with an outsize financial sector, responded to banking collapse in 2008 with an array of limits on capital outflows.
The cloud's data centres are, in effect, outsize public mainframes.
That was the work of the plastic surgeons who had pioneered beauty treatment, sawing away outsize noses and tightening withered skin over unforgiving cheekbones, via a general anaesthetic, scars and bruising.
