we're really all just guessing at this point

If David Akin is right – and he is, more often than not – this will, at least, be a mercifully short round of the traditional post-election game of pin-the-portfolio-on-the-minister, with the swearings-in expected as early as next Monday. That gives us just a few days to painstakingly overanalyse the political landscape to determine who’s in and who’s out? Who’s on top (other than the Prime Minister, of course) and who may be bottoming out? Who’s up? Who’s down? Who’s strange? Who’s charmed? Wait, that’s quarks, not cabinet ministers. It’s so difficult to tell them apart sometimes.