Greens poison Labor

[nero_bolt]

Greens are poison to Australia and the economy.... 

Labor faces a wipe-out in Tasmania:

The latest polling by ReachTEL, published in Hobart’s The Mercury last Saturday, suggests Labor potentially faces a wipeout.

The automated phone poll of 2285 has the Liberals stealing Bass, Braddon and Lyons, while Franklin—held by Labor minister Julie Collins—is too close to call. It has Wilkie holding Denison, despite a strong Labor campaign to wrest it back.

Correct conclusions are being drawn:

Tasmanian federal Labor MPs told The Australian they in large part blamed the party’s relationship with the Greens at the state and federal levels for the potential slide back into oblivion.

**bleep** Adams, a stalwart of the party who the latest polling suggests will fail to defend a margin of 12.3 per cent in rural Lyons, said the party should review its power-sharing deal with the Greens in the state…

“The Liberals ... are using it in their ads - ‘Green means Labor’ - and that sort of caper,” Mr Adams said. “The Greens have created an image in Tasmania that they oppose everything. And that’s the general feeling that 80 per cent of Tasmanians would have about the Greens.

“The majority of Tasmanians think that the Greens are a negative force to jobs, growth and economic activity."…

The Labor MP for the marginal seat of Braddon, Sid Sidebottom, who faces a strong challenge from Liberal Brett Whiteley, agreed that Labor was being damaged by its association with the Greens. “There are people who view the Greens as anti-development,” he said.  

ALP's island fortress under Coalition siege

FACING its first electoral wipeout in Tasmania in almost 30 years - the potential loss of five crucial seats - Labor is redoubling its focus on the island state and moving to further distance itself from the Greens.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/election-2013/alps-island-fortress-under-coalition-...

[silverfaun]

I agree, the Greens need to go, they have infected the politic of this country & many others for too long.

[lakeland27]

it was you giving the farewell speeches ?. the greens are easily the most honest committed conviction politicians here. murdochs character assassination can't alter that.

Vote Green in the senate.

[donnashuggy]

I voted for them last time and doubt I ever will again, they really stuffed things up.

They are not realistic as they don't understand compromise.

[lakeland27]

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@donnashuggy wrote:

I voted for them last time and doubt I ever will again, they really stuffed things up.

They are not realistic as they don't understand compromise.

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  its good to disagree.

the LNP have two parties, plus the support of preferences from another half-dozen minor parties at least. Labor and the greens need each other to combat the right gerrymander being pulled australia -wide via katter and palmer. the right kept expanding their voter base by starting new parties to preference them. the destruction by media of the greens is an attack on labor prefernces really, nothing more.

[nero_bolt]

Tasmania is really going well..

Tasmania's jobless rate hits 8.1%

Yep well done to the greens and the inept labor govt

Tasmania a bankrupt state living on handouts paid for by us in Mainland Australia.

LL you should move there, you would be in your element and love it there with the Greens and the unemployment and the Labor debt.  

[donnashuggy]

If you vote Labor in the senate preferences will go to the greens won't they?

[lakeland27]

exactly what i mean ... baseless rubbish.  having concern for the place we live is a bad thing ? murdoch has muddied a few thought processes .. confusion defeats reason.

[lakeland27]

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@donnashuggy wrote:

If you vote Labor in the senate preferences will go to the greens won't they?

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  unsure. remember when preferences gained FF steve fielding a senate seat despite a tiny primary vote ? we could see something like that happen again.

[donnashuggy]

Di Smith is campaigning here, I might go and chat to her on Saturday. She was at my local coffee shop last weekend and not many people went up and spoke to her which was a bit sad.

[donnashuggy]

Victoria is different but nonetheless I will be very careful who gets my vote.