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".
