How disappointing for the LNP in WA

[donnashuggy]

I'm shocked, I love the LNP

What happened?

[debra9275]

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@lakeland27 wrote:

 she was fond of telling people how well she got on with Rudd too.  sounds like she flirts with everyone. maybe sleaze got her where she is today

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I think Clive had better watch out, suddenly she wants to be his best friend 

[spotweldersfriend]

Obviously from those figures the big winners were Palmer and the Greens.Big swing to the Greens.Is don,is good:)

[lakeland27]

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@debra9275 wrote:

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@lakeland27 wrote:

 she was fond of telling people how well she got on with Rudd too.  sounds like she flirts with everyone. maybe sleaze got her where she is today

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I think Clive had better watch out, suddenly she wants to be his best friend 

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   i think clive has a more compliant version tucked away.. one that knows her place

[debra9275]

[nero_bolt]

FAILbor continues its downward spiral in the West. sadly, for Australia, the green vote is up. It is more than obvious that many Australians wish to remain on welfare and not work a day in their lives.

Labor’s primary vote has collapsed to a new low in the west. In September, the Labor Party Senate vote in Western Australia was the lowest it has been since the introduction of proportional representation in 1949, at just more than 26 per cent on primaries.

Despite this, the vote on Saturday night fell by almost a further five percentage points, leaving the Labor primary vote at less than 22 per cent. Extraordinary."

[boris1gary]

It's good to have friends....I suppose the Prime Minister for Unemployment will have to apologise......

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbott-accuses-clive-palmer-of-trying-to-...

  Tony Abbott accuses Clive Palmer of trying to buy seats

Mining magnate and MP Clive Palmer is trying to "buy seats" in federal Parliament and West Australians are not dumb enough to fall for it, says Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

It has been Mr Abbott's strongest attack so far on the wealthy businessman, who is believed to be dramatically outspending the major parties on advertising leading into this weekend's re-run of the West Australian Senate election.

"The people of Western Australia are smart, savvy people and I don't believe that they are going to allow themselves to be bought," said Mr Abbott, who has been campaigning in Perth.

[boris1gary]

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@boris1gary wrote:

It's good to have friends....I suppose the Prime Minister for Unemployment will have to apologise......

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbott-accuses-clive-palmer-of-trying-to-...

  Tony Abbott accuses Clive Palmer of trying to buy seats

Mining magnate and MP Clive Palmer is trying to "buy seats" in federal Parliament and West Australians are not dumb enough to fall for it, says Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

It has been Mr Abbott's strongest attack so far on the wealthy businessman, who is believed to be dramatically outspending the major parties on advertising leading into this weekend's re-run of the West Australian Senate election.

"The people of Western Australia are smart, savvy people and I don't believe that they are going to allow themselves to be bought," said Mr Abbott, who has been campaigning in Perth.

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He might like to apologise to the people of WA as well, he has called them dumb.

[nero_bolt]

SUCCESSIVE Labor leaders have “wilfully and continuously ignored” the desires of West Australian voters and the party must now ensure the Rudd-Gillard era is “dead and buried” or risk being superseded by the Greens, a veteran WA Labor senator says.

Labor’s primary vote tumbled to a historic low of 21.8 per cent in Saturday’s half-Senate by-election in Western Australia, adding fuel to a push by Bill Shorten to relax the ALP’s ties to the union movement.

Other senior Labor figures also called today for reforms to broaden the membership of the ALP.

The Opposition Leader was today expected to outline his plan for party reform during a speech in Melbourne, including removing the requirement that party members belong to a union, but withdrew following the death of a close family member.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/labors-soulsearching-intensifies-in-wake-of-wa-vote...

BILL SHORTEN: ‘We did it to ourselves’

Mr Shorten’s speaking notes read: “For too long we have allowed the characterisation that Labor only has an image problem; a message problem; a selling problem, to explain our electoral fortunes

[lakeland27 · Accepted solution]

a bad result for the government. no gilding that lily,

[just_me_karen]

OMG hurls!