Bath then suffered a blow as Abendanon was sin-binned for taking out Tom Varndell as he chased his own chip ahead and Cipriani hit the post when he attempted to cut the gap to a nine-point margin.
That gap will either be filled through a post-election concession from Brussels and the IMF, or it will leave a Syriza-led coalition presiding over fiscal chaos.
More probably Mr Ford's victory can be attributed to the post-recession reality of Toronto, where the gap between rich and poor has widened into a gulf.
From the scrum the ball went through three pairs of hands to Cyril Gossard who exploited a gap in the St Helens defence to go over under the post with Bosc adding the extras to level up the game.
Many mainstream media like the English language newspapers The Nation (English translation unavailable) and The Bangkok Post have journalistic codes of ethics on place, but there still remains a gap between theory and practice that needs to addressed.