Mike Baird. I dunno about you...

[i-need-a-martini]

I have said on these borads before that I thought he was genuine and generally I didn't mind him.

But in the lead up to the NSW campaign, he has stooped to standard Liberal tactics of lying through his teeth.

Take his latest pledge - he is going to create 150,000 new jobs. 150,000!! Out of thin air apparently because nothing he has said actually backs this up. In fact, everything he is planning to do will actually throw more people on the unemployment scrap heap.

So how can any man with morals make a statement that is clearly untrue - that just by electing him, he will be able to create enough jobs to put a 20% dent in the current unemployment figures?

[dellynt]

Ssshhy dont tell the left leaning and socialists voters that as they all live in some fantasy place where they think debt is good and money grows on trees...

[debra9275]

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@am*3 wrote:

What happens when all Govt assets are sold?

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China owns us

[gleee58]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

What is  Baird's (Jr) policy/view on same gender marriage?

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against, last I heard

[idlewhile]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

What is  Baird's (Jr) policy/view on same gender marriage?

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It's a personal thing and in the beginning it was anathema for gay couples to even contemplate marriage, they abhorred it and derided it and celebrated their freedom from it.

Now it's a left wing political football and they are using it to for political purposes.

There's nothing stopping a gay couple from a civil union.

My best friend is gay and he married his partner in a civil union and is very happy with that.

PM Abbott should allow this gay marriage law vote and see how many Labor members will join in. and get rid of it off the political landscape forever.

Mike Baird will win this election and he deserves to. Labor will suffer for their lies and scaremongering, they have taken the voters of NSW for fools for too long.

[debra9275]

I don't think Labor's going to suffer. the prediction is that they will pick up somewhere between 10-20 extra seats,

If i lived in NSW I think I would be looking at Independents. someone who opposes CSG

[icyfroth]

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@debra9275 wrote:

I don't think Labor's going to suffer. the prediction is that they will pick up somewhere between 10-20 extra seats,

NSW election 2015: on frantic final day of campaign, Baird ahead of Foley in polls - live! | Australia news | The Guardian

In the last full day of campaigning ahead of the NSW election, Mike Baird’s Coalition government leads Labor on a primary vote of 45% to Labor’s 34% with Greens steady on 11%. 

If i lived in NSW I think I would be looking at Independents. someone who opposes CSG

"Former Liberal leader John Hewson has joined the anti-coal-seam gas lobby…

Speaking at a forum after the screening of the film Frackman, Dr Hewson declared bluntly that Australia didn’t need the CSG indust­ry because its massive coal resources could be developed in a sustainable way with new ­technology.

“We really don’t need to have coal-seam gas at all in this country. It is not necessarily a very good invest­ment,” he told a Sydney audience this week…

Dr Hewson made the comments on a panel that included businessman Dick Smith and the star of Frackman, Dayne Pratsky.

The film documents Mr Pratsky’s guerilla tactics to monitor and expose the impact of CSG on the Chinchilla region, 300km northwest of Brisbane."

[debra9275]

so?? it's common knowledge that the Baird govt is going to win and as I said Labor will pick up seats.

Is John Hewson running as an Independent, if not, I don't understand the relevance of your post

[debra9275]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-27/nsw-election-2015-vote-compass-undecided-voters/6339848

Undecided voters are leaning toward minor parties and education tops their concerns, data gathered by the ABC's Vote Compass indicates.

Of more than 60,200 people who used the tool, 9 per cent said they were still undecided on which party they would vote for on Saturday.

The highest number of undecided voters (13 per cent) were aged between 18 and 34, and more men had made up their minds than women.

[debra9275]

here is the prediction

http://www.abc.net.au/news/nsw-election-2015/calculator/

[watta*drama*queen]

Almost a month after Opposition Leader Luke Foley claimed at his election launch that the Baird government’s proposed privatisation of the state’s electricity assets would result in soaring household power bills, the ABC this week put the contentious point to the test.

By the time of the national broadcaster’s assessment of the merits of Labor’s key election claim, however — which it found to be false — the opposition’s scare tactic had gone unchecked for almost the entire campaign.

Under a subheading “The verdict”, the ABC’s fact checkers concluded on Wednesday night: “Mr Foley’s claim is spin.”

The ABC Fact Check unit said a report by the Australian Energy Regulator used by Labor’s Mr Foley to justify his party’s ad campaign in fact found no consistent correlation between privatisation and higher bills as Mr Foley had alleged.

It also found NSW Labor’s reliance on data to show
that South Australians faced higher bills under a privatised system was misleading when Victoria, which is fully privatised, has slightly lower bills than NSW.

The fact check verdict was issued just hours after the mandatory electronic media blackout for political campaign ads that is meant to provide a “cooling off” period before voters go to the polls tomorrow.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/state-politics/fact-is-abc-verdict-on-privatisation...