Will Labor be banished throughout the land?.. YES

[nero_bolt]

Will Labor be banished throughout the land?... YES but they and their small band of supporters will still not get the message

Only once before has the ALP been exiled from office nationwide. This time the dry spell could be a lot more testing.

With the exception of a small oasis in the Australian Capital Territory, as of this weekend it looks highly probable that the ALP will be consigned to opposition throughout the land. T

he likely defeat of Jay Weatherill's government in South Australia and Lara Giddings' government in Tasmania will leave Labor languishing out of office federally and in all of the states.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/comment/will-labor-be-banished-throughout-the-land-20140313-34pbe.html#ixzz...

 

[freakiness]

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@nero_wulf wrote:

Two arm-twisting Independents stand ready to be bribed into government and that spells instability of the Oakeshott and Windsor order

That to me means LABOR lost.... 

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Oakeshott, Windsor and the other Indies was the best thing that happened in Australia's Parliament for years.

By virtue of them being there legislation was more fully debated and a more diverse range of views were considered.  To complain about that would be nuts.   The more voices and rational argument heard the better for us and our democracy.

The ideal of having one party rule for ever is insane.

[debra9275]

To have just one party sounds almost communist to me

[silverfaun]

20% postal votes have yet to be counted and the signs were all pointing towards a liberal win in that area.

Personally I couldn't care less as long as the Greens lost, the true enemy of labor and democracy.Thank God Palmer bombed out.

I would be happy if what happenend to the Greens in Ireland (totally wiped out) happened here. The Green McKip in Tassie speech was appalling, they lost over 2/3 of their support and seats and he's talking about WAR. Massive loser.

[donnashuggy]

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@silverfaun wrote:

20% postal votes have yet to be counted and the signs were all pointing towards a liberal win in that area.

Personally I couldn't care less as long as the Greens lost, the true enemy of labor and democracy.Thank God Palmer bombed out.

I would be happy if what happenend to the Greens in Ireland (totally wiped out) happened here. The Green McKip in Tassie speech was appalling, they lost over 2/3 of their support and seats and he's talking about WAR. Massive loser.

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So you think that a few people might have voted Labor?

[kennedia_nigricans]

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@debra9275 wrote:
To have just one party sounds almost communist to me

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communism is about something else.

a one-party system is called dictatorship.

[debra9275]

of course it is too

I've had a long day

[freshwater-2]

Hey Nero,what's the latest on the SA election?

[nero_bolt]

Former Labor powerbroker Graham Richardson is right - South Australia’s gerrymander is a disgrace.

The Liberals’ failure to win a majority of seats on Saturday can only lead to contempt for the state’s “democracy”:

It is difficult to resist the whinges of the losers when the two-party-preferred vote is 53 per cent...

In 2010, the Liberals achieved 18 seats on a two-party-preferred vote of 52 per cent to 48 per cent. On that occasion, three independents were elected, but even if you add those to the Liberals it still comes to only 21 seats out of 47.

The glib explanation that the Liberals have too many safe seats with big useless majorities just doesn’t cut it. Something is seriously wrong with the South Australian electoral boundaries.

To win on Saturday, the Liberals needed in excess of 54 per cent. I can wear 51 per cent or even 52 per cent. But if you don’t win on 53 per cent or more the word gerrymander springs to mind.

[poddster]

Anyone prepared to guess which state will lose out under the current Federal Government ?

[lakeland27]

all of them. NSW  doesn't want to privatise more electricity assetts , joe hockey is trying to force the sale NSW and pthers say no.

simi;ar things happening all over.