The Australian Federal Election 2010 Thread (III)

[G.Wood]

And those farkin Union sponsored ads deliberately use someone that sounds like a slow wages mongo. .

You mean Julia?

[Bradman]

Gotta admit. If the ALP had any sense they'd spend whatever money they've got leftover getting her mug on the tele without sound. Her voice is more painful than some (most) of the girls at the Campdraft a couple of weeks ago.

Think Kath and Kim on helium.

[embee]

Do you guys get the "support your local billionaire" ads from the CMFEU?

Waste of time running them in WA ...but they do...

[Bradman]

I don't know about a waste of time. WA doesn't have that many Billionaires. But yeah the adds are scrappy, probably effective, but scrappy.

[G.Wood]

Do you guys get the "support your local billionaire" ads from the CMFEU?

Waste of time running them in WA ...but they do...

I haven't seen them* - perhaps they are just targeting the mining states or they can't afford spiv air time


* I don't watch a great deal of commercial tv and they aren't many political ads between the Bulli dogs and Ballarat trots

[bodyline]

Do you guys get the "support your local billionaire" ads from the CMFEU?

Waste of time running them in WA ...but they do...

I haven't seen them* - perhaps they are just targeting the mining states or they can't afford spiv air time


* I don't watch a great deal of commercial tv and they aren't many political ads between the Bulli dogs and Ballarat trots

.....Racing at Dapto........

[Zat]

Doesn't the elctronic media ban kick in tonight?

Yes.

But this time around I've had one of those whizbang IQ-type boxes. Meaning I've been able to skip the ads on TV shows without too much faffing about.

[skully]

I think the saturation ads will have definitely swung it in favour of the pinkos. Just sat through an ad break in the news and there was 5 ads. It went pinko ad, dog food, pinko, sumpent else, pinko. And you're right, some are paid for by the pinkos and others by various Unions.

[embee]

How do you know which way to swing if you dont have to suffer their ads?

[Hass]

I have virtually avoided free-to-air TV for the past few weeks.

I must say that it's been one of my wiser decisions.

[Allan D]

The ALP in their elitist way want politicians to choose the Head of State not the people. If you had a Presidency now it would have undoubtedly been offered to Krudd as a consolation prize after being kicked out of the premiership. Most people in the UK would infinitely prefer even a monarchy of King ("I talk to the trees") Brian and Princess Camilla to a President Prescott or Thatcher.

The preening liberal (or is it Labour?) elites had their best chance of getting a republic in 1999 but cocked it up. They didn't seem to realise that a lot of people had fled to Australia from republican regimes in Indonesia and the Philippines which didn't seem to be particularly bothered by the human rights of their own people. It seems more than a coincidence that the most stable, democratic and prosperous nations in the Western Pacific region are Japan, Australia and New Zealand, all monarchies.

Who the fark do you think chooses it now. A politician, not many or even a few. The most telling point of the last referndum debate was Hawkie pointing out that Hayden asked him for the GG's job and got it. As he said he wouldn't have been able to get it through cabinet let alone a joint sitting if pushed.

You could have mentioned the Bishop too and also that Kerr was Whitlam's personal appointment (which turned out the biggest mistake since Henry II made Becket Archbishop of Canterbury although it was Whitlam who was shafted) but then the G-G isn't the Head of State although the Australian constitution gives him (or her) power to dismiss Federal Ministers (including it appears the PM) - a power the Crown has not exercised in the UK since 1834.

Correct me if I'm wrong but there's nothing to stop a constitutional amendment to ensure that before submitting a nomination of G-G to the Queen it should receive the endorsement (or otherwise) of the Federal Parliament (and possibly the State ones too). This would at least put Hawke's theory to the test and show whether nominees such as Kerr, Hayden and Hollingworth could get through the net. It would also provide a trial to see if the ALP's favoured system would work in the case of an actual, as opposed to a substitute, Head of State.

However despite, or maybe because of, 1975 neither the ALP, nor anyone else, has proposed such a change. Obviously, maintaining the power of the PM is much too important.

[Invader Zim]

Stick to surfing for kiddie porn. At least your good at that.

[Allan D]

Stick to surfing for kiddie porn. At least your good at that.

Although not quite as good as an expert like yourself though

[skully]

What a sad shadow of his former witty and humorous self Zimmy has become. These days he just darts in, says "you're a d!ckhead or you're a qunt" and p!sses off to do the wiping up like a good little boy, and earns the right to watch his cartoon of choice.

Or am I misreading this? Has he always just been this trite?

[JGK]

However despite, or maybe because of, 1975 neither the ALP, nor anyone else, has proposed such a change. Obviously, maintaining the power of the PM is much too important.

I guess many would consider the 1999 Republic referendum as being such a proposal for that change.

[Merlin]

Zimmers really has become a bitter and twisted little pr!ck, hasn't he ... seldom appears but as and when he does make an appearance, it's for an enormous f**king bitch or gripe or wussie comment.

Keep burning the crosses Zimmers ... it's what you happen to be good for.

[G.Wood]

How do you know which way to swing if you dont have to suffer their ads?

Go with whoever has the tidiest turbo totty handing out How to Vote cards

[Mick Sawyer]

How do you know which way to swing if you dont have to suffer their ads?

Go with whoever has the tidiest turbo totty handing out How to Vote cards

........ and then in the privacy of the polling booth do it your own way, with yourself?

[G.Wood]

superfluous advice, what do you think I'm going to do after a sheila tells me "all you have to do is put one in the box"

[Mick Sawyer]

superfluous advice, what do you think I'm going to do after a sheila tells me "all you have to do is put one in the box"

You stick one in for Bronny?

[Paul Keating]

Fark this sh!t for the longest campaign ever.

I had a dream last night that Abbott won the election. I do not want to ever feel that way again. The relief when I woke up and realised it was a dream.

[skully]

So are you a seer or prophet at all, Ponts? Have your dreams/nightmares been known to come true before?

[tac]

Only the one involving him, the retarded amputee and the kitten . . .

[JGK]

Labour are warm faves with the bookies but on a seat by seat basis the Coalition are favoured in more seats.

Might have to load up again on the Coalition.

[Mick Sawyer]

Labour, they're farked. Got done for months back.

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