Pride and Shame - election 2010 slight return

We'll we have a result.

I'm proud of the fact that I didn't predict it at first.

I'm proud of the fact that I didn't think Australian politicians could be that undemocratic.

Now I am ashamed, because they obviously can, and are.

Tony Windor and Rob Oakshott are scum. They bring shame on this country.

In the UK when there was a hung parliament after that recent general election the Lib Dems respected the fact that the Conservatives had garnered the bigger slice of the vote, and their leader formed a coalition with the David Cameraons Tories, against the will of many in his party.

That's because the will of the people trumps the will of the parties

AND the will of the MPs.

Or it should.

Not here in Australia. All you have to do is drive a truck load of money up to an independent's electorate and abracadabra, a party that lost the primary vote, has fewer seats and didn't win the 2-pp vote by a significant margin (this stat is a artifact of the seat-by-seat preferential system anyway and not significant) can form a government.

The shame of it.

The poms played by the rules and we didn't. The shame of it. For years i have dispised the English for running Ricky Ponting out with a specialist-fielder super-sub in the Ashes 2005.

But now it is clear, they fight fairer than us. Think about that. Think about it hard.

When in comes to politics the independents are the equivalent of the Pakistani cricket team.

And Julia Gillard and the ALP are the currupt bookies - feeding the problem with their greed, and inborn disregard for honour.

there is no point to sport unless the best team wins. There is no point to democracy unless the people's will is respected. When you break that fundamental trust there is no honour in either, only shame.

Tony Windor, Rob Oakshott : I condemn you. In going against the will of your electorates you have sealed your place in infamy for all eternity. May all the disasters of this next government be blamed upon you, accursed, and bring exile upon yourselves and all your progeny.

You will all have to move to New Zealand to escape the back-turning isolation of the Great Southern Land.

But there are things to be proud of from the Aussie election 2010. Our conservative party is actually conservative. Our leader is a conservative. The people responded will to his conservative message. All good things to be proud off which sadly for the UK they can't boast about there.

But still, the shame of the British being fairer than us is too much to bear. Something must be done. These independents must not only be voted out, but made pariahs in their country communities.

Oh BTW. Did you hear about the broadband "experts" that Windsor consulted who advised him to support the National Porn Network. Turns out that one of them was an out of work telstra techinician. So Windor basically spent 43 billion (minimum) of your money to give his mate a job. There is a word for this. It starts with "c" and ends with "orruption". There is also a word for people like Tony Windsor. It also starts with "c".

One weekend for country people to save the country

The three ex-national independents could give us a decision on monday

Well thanks for that guys. Cheers for being so prompt. I mean really it's not that important. Take your time, eh. It's not like $50m in public servants wages is being wasted every day there is no govt. It's not like the country is defenseless against a possible double-dip US recession. All good. No rush

There is only one thing that can be said for sure at this point. That these three guys will lose their seats at the next election. They have piss farted around to such an extent that, although they complain nobody can be trusted, they are themselves shown to be totally untrustworthy and unreliable.

The electorates in which they sit are conservative electorates. If they side with Labor they are toast. They all know it. But even if they side with the Nationals it's too late for em. Their electorates will vote national or liberal next time. for sure. because it's the only way they can be sure of getting conservative govt.

They only way now to save their own skins is to side with the coalition and before the next election to join the coalition and retain their seats as sitting national or liberal members.

The people in their electorates have been given one last weekend to stand up and be counted by their independent MPs. The must protest outside their electorate offices and in town squares and let these morons know what way the country should go.

The three are behaving in the most disgraceful anti-democratic way and ignoring public opinion in their own electorates.

If they side with labor they will live forever in infamy. They will bring in a mining tax, a carbon tax and greater green restriction of rural development. They will have let rural australia down in a big way. They will be ridden out of town on a rail - in time honoured rural tradition.

I am so angry that TOny Windsor colluded with treasury to mis-represent Coalition costings. A difference of opinion was purported to be a black hole. That "black hole" was no bigger than Labors deliberate fudging of the costing of the mining tax. And pales into insignificance when put next to the huge known unknown of the National Porn Network. $43 billion my arse. That will be $80 billion or i've never downloaded a byte.

Why Windsor want's to do this is unknown to me but it looks he is willing to put personal grudges with Nationals above the good of the nation and the will of his electorate.

Makes me sick.

Get on out there and protest in their electorates I say. There has to be some footage of the actual voters here. The people who's say is actually important. And it has to show that they are pissed off with three hoodlums holding the nation to ransom.