Labor recorded its lowest primary vote in a Senate election in more than a century

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From the media arm of the left the ABC and their flag ship program the 7.30 report

Even they agree that this was the worst result for Labor in over  a century (since 1903) and a massive disaster

Full 7.30 story here with video,  well worth a watch unless you are a diehard true believer as its not pretty for Labor  http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2014/s3980312.htm 

SARAH FERGUSON, PRESENTER: In the lead up to Saturday's re-run of the WA Senate election, Labor leader Bill Shorten urged voters to send the Government a message, but it seems voters instead sent one to Labor.

The party recorded its lowest primary vote in a Senate election in more than a century and Clive Palmer's Senate bloc now appears likely to share the balance of power in the Upper House from July.

On the Government's part, it says a five per cent drop in its vote since the last election is standard for a by-election result.

Political correspondent Sabra Lane.

ANTONY GREEN, ABC ELECTION ANALAYST: The main story out of the WA Senate election is the disastrous result for Labor. It's the lowest Labor vote in an election - a Senate election since 1903. Their vote went substantially down. The loss of vote for the Liberal Party's what you'd expect at a by-election.

SABRA LANE: For the ALP and its relatively new leader Bill Shorten, the result's a shocker. Mr Shorten urged voters to send the Government a message about planned cuts to health and education. Instead, voters have sent him and the ALP a strong and unmissable missive: they don't like what they see and hear.

ANTONY GREEN: I think the final spot will be won by the Liberal Party. From this point on, their vote should go up slightly during the count.

SABRA LANE: The former West Australian Labor Premier Geoff Gallop argues the party's facing an existential crisis.

GEOFF GALLOP: Catastrophic. And I think it ought to be a turning point. It ought to be one of those occasions when all of the arguments that have been floating around in recent years about the need to reform the party really come to the surface and the issue's taken seriously. 

GEOFF GALLOP: I think the Labor Party is damaged goods. I mean, if you look at what's been going on in New South Wales, if you look at many of the issues related to the relationship between business and politics, you look at the pre-selection processes in WA, you look at the controversy surrounding Joe Bullock in the past couple of weeks of the campaign. I mean, the Labor vote just collapsed.

Full 7.30 story here with video,  well worth a watch unless you are a diehard true believer as its not pretty for Labor  http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2014/s3980312.htm 

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and this as well

Support for Coalition hits six-month high as Bill Shorten sinks further: Newspoll 

Coalition’s primary vote rose from 40 two weeks earlier to 43 per cent and Labor’s went from 36 per cent to 34 per cent, its lowest since the first week of November.

Now back to the DISASTER that was the WA election for the Labor party, lowest v ote in over 100 years, that has to be a message that even Billy boy can’t ignore.... But then he is deaf to what the Australian people want so my guess is he and labor will ignore the message and sink further into the swamp dragging along the last of their true diehard rusted on myopic supporters. 

[spotweldersfriend]

We'll just wait for a poll after the May budget:)

[silverfaun]

After the budget??? what? are all your hip pockets going to be hit? is the entitlement mentality on show here? the "what's in it for me" greedy grasping ideology.

I'm alright Jack, what's happened to this Labor party? where's their pride??  what's happened to left wing politics in this country? they have no pride, no soul, no base, no ideas, no self respect.

All this was on show for the last 6 years, all the failures and waste, all the lies and policy failures, the greatest policy failure in our history was engineered by Labor (border control), they suffered the greatest loss ever and they stuck their heads in the sand and hoped sliming a new government at every opportunity would work for them

Well guess what?? nobody is that stupid, the voters showed their disgust at the WA election.

The best thing Labor can do for its future, if it ever has one, is to move on from the failed policies, do a bi partison deal on gonski and NDIS because we sure don't have the money for it, scrap the vanity of their failed CT and mining tax, get rid of it and speak to real people, ask them what they want, NOT what Labor wants, people have had a gutful of them and their lies, they are in the death zone politically and numbers wise.

[debra9275]

After the budget??? what? are all your hip pockets going to be hit? is the entitlement mentality on show here? the "what's in it for me" greedy grasping ideology.

no, its the ""íf you've got any money or ässets they want to get their hands on it"   theory

[spotweldersfriend]

"What's in it for me?" is the right's motto. Always has been.

[spotweldersfriend]

In other words sf,the best thing Labor can do is become another Liberal party.is that it?
Like I asked in
another post,where did all the money go that Howard and Costello were raking in at the height of the mining boom?
Hospitals,schools,infrastructure,money to the states for public housing.Where?

[*mrgrizz*]

it was sitting there in the bank

labor gave it all away

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@spotweldersfriend wrote:
"What's in it for me?" is the right's motto. Always has been.

You are correct it is of the left and the welfare mentality.  Its always from the left whats in it for me mentality, they the left dont want to do the hard yards for anything, they just want hand outs.... sad isnt it..... 

But anyway as the usuals are dragging  this thread off topic can we all get back on topic and the topic is

 Labor recorded its lowest primary vote in a Senate election in more than a century

ANTONY GREEN, ABC ELECTION ANALAYST: The main story out of the WA Senate election is the disastrous result for Labor. It's the lowest Labor vote in an election - a Senate election since 1903. Their vote went substantially down. 

How bad is that for Labor, looks like Labor still hasnt got a clue as to why they were turfed out of offics at the federal election in a landslide win to the LNP

How bad is this for Labor they have  broken a record of the lowers vote in 111 years..... 

[silverfaun]

Lowest vote in over 100 years? so what! say the left, all we care about is power, how to get it, how to keep it and for how long.

The whinging and moaning from the left at all things successfulf says it all really. All they have is  insult, name calling, homophobic insults hurled at every opportunity and offensive graphics and bigotry.

Time to move on? they can't, they are paralysed, inertia has taken hold, a victim of their own failed policies.