Re: Aus Federal Politics thread (XII)

by Red Sun 03 Jul 2016, 00:36

It amazes me that Turncoat is angry about Labor's 'scare' campaign.

He may not have approved of Medicscare but the Libs have tried to dismantle the health system going back to Fraser.

Yet he ran his own scare campaigns on the chaos of a hung parliament, debt and of course boats.

He underestimated people's concerns about health, education and climate change. That's what post polling was telling them that the people were talking but after casting their votes.

He thought he had the mandate regarding stability less than a year after he toppled the guy who was elected.

by skully Sun 03 Jul 2016, 00:53

Aye, deluded.

Still, Shortarse's lauding of the strength, resolve and importance of the Trade Union movement in his "victory" speech last night was galling. Er Bill, only 15% of workers are in a Union, you pompous, bullying qunt.

by JGK Sun 03 Jul 2016, 01:21

Red wrote:It amazes me that Turncoat is angry about Labor's 'scare' campaign.

He may not have approved of Medicscare but the Libs have tried to dismantle the health system going back to Fraser.

Yet he ran his own scare campaigns on the chaos of a hung parliament, debt and of course boats.

He underestimated people's concerns about health, education and climate change. That's what post polling was telling them that the people were talking but after casting their votes.

He thought he had the mandate regarding stability less than a year after he toppled the guy who was elected.

There are scare campaigns and there are out and out lies.

That said, the right wing of the party can't complain because the lies were only believable following what they actually tried to do to Medicare.

by Bradman Sun 03 Jul 2016, 01:45

Well I'll beef hooked. ABC (well Cassidy) has pinkos with most numbers. Started consuming way too heavily at 8.20 last night when Bazza called Dysfunction mark II.

by embee Sun 03 Jul 2016, 11:36

by JGK Tue 05 Jul 2016, 12:26

FMD how is it to count a few bits of paper!

The AEC hasn't updated Cowan in WA since Saturday.

Apparently* there is fair bit of controversy as some polling booths ran out of ballot papers.

Meanwhile, the Sozzie seat of Hindmarsh looks like it will come down to under 100 votes with maybe the pinkos just scraping in.

by skully Tue 05 Jul 2016, 22:38

Cowan being looked at by AEC for irregular/no sign off and storage of a packet of votes.

Farkin useless Wozzies.

Meanwhile the boffins seem to think postal and absentee votes will fall Libs way and see them with 75 or 76 seats.

Does it matter though? I'm tipping another 3 years of chaos and Turncoat to be rolled within a year.

by Henry Wed 06 Jul 2016, 00:57

This is just not going to end well. If the coalition scrapes in, Turnbull will likely be forced out within six months, if not sooner.

The current system as it is is broken.

by skully Wed 06 Jul 2016, 02:08

Aye, minor parties holding the large parties to ransom is no recipe for stability.

by JGK Wed 06 Jul 2016, 04:58

WA One Nation candidate convicted

1:07PM JULY 6, 2016

The One Nation candidate who is a frontrunner for WA's final Senate seat was convicted of a crime earlier this year and is still to face trial on a second charge next month.

Anti-bank farmer Rod Culleton, 52, was convicted of larceny in NSW earlier this year and faces a stealing charge in WA next month.

He is still to be sentenced in NSW on a charge of stealing a truck key from a driver while he was trying to repossess a car he was leasing.

The WA charge is over the alleged theft of a hire car, in which police say he helped steal the car from bank-appointed receivers who had begun foreclosure proceedings at a friend's farm.

He is appealing the NSW conviction, but candidates awaiting or serving sentences for crimes that carry sentences of 12 months jail or more - such as larceny - are barred from taking up a seat in federal parliament.

by JGK Wed 06 Jul 2016, 09:51

LNP now very short odds to form majority govt.

by horace Wed 06 Jul 2016, 10:07

Truffles did a fair job in restoring the COALition's stocks after the policy disaster of the MM years.

People were filthy with the MM and other right extremists such as Dutton, Erica and Cardinal Andrews. Every time these turkeys got on the telly's watched by single mums, people who had lost jobs, older folk etc they lost votes. Their failure to fully implement Gonski and the decline in support for education pissed off a lot of parents. I expect many conservative gay folk voted against COALition for the first time.

Now the extremists want Truffles head on a spike and Bernardi wants the party to move further to the right. The more sensible Libs are having none of this "Delcon" line:

Another MP on Monday dismissed a recent argument from Cory Bernardi that the problem was the Coalition is no longer conservative enough. “Who needs the Labor party when you’ve got Andrew Bolt and the Delcons [delusional conservatives]?” from the Guardian

I love the term Delcon

by JGK Wed 06 Jul 2016, 10:11

Aye. And the great thing is it was coined by Miranda Devine.

by skully Wed 06 Jul 2016, 12:31

I just want to know who the qunts were that devised the appallingly drab & boring Lib campaign. Talk about out of touch.

by embee Wed 06 Jul 2016, 13:45

skully wrote:I just want to know who the qunts were that devised the appallingly drab & boring Lib campaign. Talk about out of touch.

The same twats that thought of calling a DD straight after a meh budget (and then not even mentioning the reason the DD was called )

by skully Wed 06 Jul 2016, 14:01

Aye, brain surgeons. zombie

by Bradman Thu 07 Jul 2016, 01:14

JGK wrote:LNP now very short odds to form majority govt.

Hope you didn't drop too much on the lay off.

by skully Thu 07 Jul 2016, 01:25

Apparently the main strategist behind the abortion of the LNP campaign was some farker called Mark Textor. He needs to get the texta colours out and go back to kindergarten.

by Bradman Thu 07 Jul 2016, 01:36

Him and his buddy have been the fascist pollsters for years. Though after this and the UK mess(?) they may have to find another electoral system to screw with.

by skully Thu 07 Jul 2016, 01:57

He's obviously an out of touch pompous git.

Seeing outright lies are now OK, I hope the Libs go with "A vote for Shortarse is a vote for a poofter-bashing, cross-dressing, bullying rapist and the introduction of communism in Aus" in the next campaign. Cool

by Henry Thu 07 Jul 2016, 02:27

Turnbull's mistake was to be so weak and submissive to the angry right of his party when he came into power. He should have been stronger, told them, "F*ck off, I'm the prime minister now" and done it HIS way, the 'leather jacket wearing Malcolm' way. The way that might have made him reasonably popular with the electorate.

But he chickened out, became Tony Abbott 2.0, and the people in his party that forced him into being like that are now dumping all the shit at his doorstep.

by JGK Thu 07 Jul 2016, 02:33

Henry wrote:Turnbull's mistake was to be so weak and submissive to the angry right of his party when he came into power. He should have been stronger, told them, "F*ck off, I'm the prime minister now" and done it HIS way, the 'leather jacket wearing Malcolm' way. The way that might have made him reasonably popular with the electorate.

But he chickened out, became Tony Abbott 2.0, and the people in his party that forced him into being like that are now dumping all the shit at his doorstep.

Who knows what deals he had to do to get the vote in the first instance.

by Henry Thu 07 Jul 2016, 02:37

JGK wrote:
Henry wrote:Turnbull's mistake was to be so weak and submissive to the angry right of his party when he came into power. He should have been stronger, told them, "F*ck off, I'm the prime minister now" and done it HIS way, the 'leather jacket wearing Malcolm' way. The way that might have made him reasonably popular with the electorate.

But he chickened out, became Tony Abbott 2.0, and the people in his party that forced him into being like that are now dumping all the shit at his doorstep.

Who knows what deals he had to do to get the vote in the first instance.

Abbott's popularity was lower than Gillard's at her nadir. Turnbull was the only viable alternative and Abbott supporters were publicly bullish but privately very concerned. They would have backed Turnbull anyway if it meant them keeping their seats. Turnbull failed to call their bluff.

by embee Thu 07 Jul 2016, 05:31

Katter give support on Supply and Confidence to Mehlcolm

(but will probably drop as soon as Barnaby opens his mouth )

by horace Thu 07 Jul 2016, 05:45

lol... it was not a matter of a poor campaign...if the MM was still in the brownies would have been routed....the MM and his extra terrestrial mates are universally loathed.

the most interesting story I have read since the election is a piece in the guardian by Kingston about Hanson...a telling piece of writing

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