$#ITTER'S DITCH in that case :D Hopefully they would be forced to resign and we could have the fun of a costly by-election (which their party should be forced to pay for).
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I'm not going to comment on political candidates as that would just make you ALL cranky :D
I voted tuesday as I was busy doing something useful on monday (falcon water pump).
Once there was a 50/50 chance what you saw on the telly was a lie, now it's 100%. Anyone who has ever had a direct connection with a "story" will tell you what's reported has no resemblance to what happened yet some choose to believe all the other stories are true somehow ?
The pamphleteers don't bother me. They offer politely I wave them away, get it over and get onto the much more interesting sausage. We don't get shot at or bombed so I'm alright with that.
Know this absolute truth: In a democracy you get the government you deserve. If you don't like the parliament (and I don't) blame the electorate.
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You were able to get a sausage at the pre-poll place! Not at the one I went to.Quote:
The pamphleteers don't bother me. They offer politely I wave them away, get it over and get onto the much more interesting sausage. We don't get shot at or bombed so I'm alright with that.
I am a bit surprised that people don’t know who they are voting for long before the Election Day. Don’t you vote for the party and their fundamental beliefs not whether you like the particular candidate because he used to be a rockstar, football player or can scull a beer etc.
There is basically three choices and three fundamentally different viewpoints on how our world should go around, the rest is smoke and mirrors.
I am interested to hear when it comes out who was behind the deliberate attempt to discredit Pauline’s party, they must be worried about her if they went to that much effort.
Well seeing as how it has all come from Al Jazeera footage, and it is all attacking that particular party (which is about as far right as we get), as well as discrediting the NRA, which is also pretty much out on the right, then I would be looking at the opposite end of the political spectrum.
We have been asked to not name names or parties but if you point, I'll whistle. :rolleyes:
At this point of time I do not even know how many candidates are standing for either house in my electorate. Part of the reason might be that a lot of what gets put in my letter box goes straight in the bin and I only read the newspaper on line during the week which makes it easy to skip stuff. The local paper has shrunk and not been delivered to my home for a long time.
I voted today and unlike election days it was a breeze. Parked next to the entrance, using my newly minted disabled permit, no waiting in a queue and in an out in ten minutes.
All the arguments about policies still to come out is in my case irrelevant as I'm voting to get rid of the sitting member who espouses and acts in parliament on his ultra conservative view which is not mine. If my local member can ignore the result of the majority vote in his electorate on the marriage equality issue then even blind Freddy would be a better member.
Just my opinion but I vote to punish.
Peter.
That's how I tend to view things as well.
It wouldn't matter all that much to me who has the reins of power provided they don't tell me how I should live my life, keep things tidy, don't seek to be lining their own or certain interest groups pockets, don't makes us a laughing stock of the rest of the world, keep things moving along, and don't slug any specific community too hard. But as soon as they start acting like a mob of feral schoolies they lose my vote - eventually the next mob turn into the same thing so they have to go as well. It's well know that there have been very few occasions in Australia where parties win elections, instead the other side(s) lose them.