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Best to have no policies going into an election. Then, if elected, introduce whatever policies you as government see fit.
Any complaints could be fobbed off as non-core non-promises!!
And ⌠never under-estimate the stupidity of the average Australian voter.
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Saying that money for schools and hospitals doesnât resonate is rubbish. Everyone wants more money for hospitals. As for schools, some need more government money and some donât. The big private schools who are building underground carparks and equestrian centres donât need more money, in fact they get too much already.
Laborâs problem was that they promised vast amounts of money for absolutely everything, with none of it to be paid for by anyone nice. It wasnât believable and it wasnât believed.
Good for the tradies and their families, bad for the union movement and the ALP.
I donât know, thatâs why I asked the question.
Maybe they were even more insipid?
Remarkable feat to end up with a Majority government
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BF concurs
As for Fitzgibbon, inherited his fatherâs seat, carries baggage and has not made any impact in his shadow ministry.
Been giving this some thought since the other day.
I wanted Tanya because sheâs erudite and intelligent, and can argue complex concepts well, ⌠whllst Albo, (who I voted for over Billy Bland), comes across as a bit of a duffer, and thanks to his speech proclivities, always sounds just short of half pizzed when he talks, and seems to always reach to make a bad joke or a Dad joke when heâs challenged on things.
Iâm now leaning back towards Albo,⌠because it really appears the great unwashed that decide elections, will never understand complex arguments, and just donât get, even donât like, intelligent people.
Maybe Tanya realises this too now.
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If Albo is the daggy dad, then really he is ScoMo sans religion in a leather jacket who DJâs. Not sure that beats him tbh. Needs a POD.
The Labor Party â that is to say, the self-obsessed, self-serving right-wing idiots in the Caucus â fu*ked up mightily when they chose Shorten as leader. The general membership knew better and wanted Albo.
Shorten might be an intelligent, compassionate human being, with great policy ideas, and a great companion on a one-to-one basis, but he has all the charisma of a wet tea towel. In addition, his history of trade union activism, allied to his making and breaking of two PMs made for a bad image in the fascist media.
He has been a brilliant back-room boy â a plotter and organiser second to none â but his selection as the face of the Labor Party in this era of âimageâ and of presidential-style politics, was doomed to failure from the outset.
His personal conduct of the campaign was lacking in definition and showed insufficient aggression. He persistently called Scummo âMr Morrisonâ without any hint of irony or sarcasm, while Scummo patronised him, and called him âBillâ. When Scummo lied, and misrepresented Laborâs policies, (e.g., claiming that Labor was going to âraise taxesâ ) he didnât protest loudly enough or angrily enough. Heâd have done better if heâd called Scummo a âlying Liberal turdâ instead of âMr Morrison.â
He wasnât well served by his publicity people either.
Where was the poster with a photo of a grinning Scummo, and the caption: âWould you Buy a Used Car from This Man?â
Where was the poster with the photograph of Scummo with his arm around Trumbleâs shoulders and the word-bubble: âThis is my leader and Iâm ambitious for him,â with the caption below it: âTurnbull trusted âScoMoâ⌠Do you ?â
Why not a picture of sick and drowning refugees with the caption: ââI stopped these,â says Morrison the Christian.â ?
âAh no, those are dirty tricks â we canât stoop that lowâŚâ The truth is often dirty but itâs still the truth!
Queensland. Every time Shorten havered and refused to give a straight answer over Adani, I could feel more Qld votes slipping away. Why the hell couldnât he have said:
âThe Qld workers donât need Adani, because weâre going to open a Government ordnance factory which will employ 5,000 with permanent, fulltime jobs.â ?
Why not ? Because the Liberal Lights in Caucus would have asphyxiated at the whiff of socialism, given off by the idea that a government, a Labor Government, might actually create jobs by direct action. And now those same Liberal Lights are making out that Labor has gone too far to the Left !
FFS, Bill was touting a bible-load of boring right-wing policy presentations which were so complicated because of all the concessions to the right-wingers built into them that they were ultimately incomprehensible.
Take negative gearing for example. Instead of saying, weâre going to stop all negative gearing and telling the entitled whingers, âSo you wonât be able to afford your seventh rental property ? Tough titty ! Donât complain, just be thankful youâve got away with bludging on your fellow Australians this long,â he tries to sweet-talk them, these greedy, self-obsessed erseholes who would never vote for Labor anyway.
They condemned us to six years of Boring Billy and now weâre guaranteed a minimum of another three years to put up with the LNP Fascists and their depredations. Thanks a million to the Labor Caucus Right Wingers ! Theyâd better not fu*k us up againâŚ
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Que?
Not putting her hand up for the Leadership
Depends on your definition of insipid. If youâre like me and think handing over money to big business, taking it out of the NDIS, allowing the MDB to become toxic, inactivity on climate change, promoting racism, division, class divide and shifting tax payer money to the Cayman Islands. Defunding science, the public broadcaster, public schools, hospitals. Promoting Climate chance denial. Taking money off fossil fuel lobby groups, spending on absurd statues, the continuous devaluing of indigenous Australia, paying off mistresses and Philippine lady boys insipid?
Then no, I didnât think Labor was more insipid.
But hey, boomers got to keep their tax loophole, â â â â â .
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That would be a cane toad superhighway.
point of difference
Thought a POD was a sort of Covfefe, only bigger.
Ah no everyone does not.
And thats the thingâŚ
Ah, boomers.
Swing voter Gracie Scott, aged 78, said Laborâs controversial franking credit proposal was integral to her decision to put Labor last on her ballot paper.
âIt pushed Labor right down. I put Liberal ahead of Labor because of that,â Mrs Scott said over lunch during the Australian Shareholdersâ Association conference in Melbourne on Monday.
âIâm relieved I still have my franking credits because I think that was such an evil promotion. It was so unfair.â
Mrs Scott said she donates the $15,000 to $20,000 she receives in franking credit refunds to charity. âIâm very happy to give it away, but I donât want it to be ripped off me,â she said.
Investors would need a share portfolio of $900,000 to $1.2 million to generate franking refunds of $20,000.
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He has the personality of a wank sock.
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