Australian Politics (1 Viewer)

[mirakon]

i remember when barrel o'farrel was fat.

those were the days.

Met him irl, he is actually pretty tall tbh

 

[Aerath]

i remember when barrel o'farrel was fat.

those were the days.

"NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell famously said 12 years ago that people would know he was making a tilt for leadership when he lost weight and shaved off his beard. He did both eventually and made good on his promise."

Truth and honesty from politicians. Shocking.

 

[funkshen]

Met him irl, he is actually pretty tall tbh

i'm talking 13 years ago

 

[Lentern]

It will be a walloping, I've given the ALP just 13 seats but they oughtn't be that depressed, this is a party that has been in government 21 of the last twenty three years, the electoral gravity against them is even greater than NSW and it's 16 years of government. People say because of the size of the loss Labor will be in exile for at least three terms or whatever, I think that's crap. The coalition vote is massively inflated by the age of this government and Labor can be sure of a healthy swing back to them in four years time. Some people say it would be better for Labor to have narrowly lost in 2009, I don't think so, if they had narrowly lost they could have expected a powerful re-election, (probably an increased majority) like Carr, Rann, Bracks and Beattie all got. The electoral thrashing gives the new leader of the opposition a nice small number of MP's which he can keep well disciplined and on message whilst polling will pretty much always say he is en route to improve his party from the previous election. By contrast Jeff Kennett and Dean Brown had horrible times of it, after winning in record breaking landslides they had a dozen MP's in notionally safe Labor seats forever acting like dills to try and bolster their public profiles and cling on to the seat which they had little chance of ever winning again. You also have enormous expectations to deliver upon and like they did under Rudd (sort of) people begin to panic that your popularity is in free fall when its merely returning to a manageable level.

Sure it's bad news for many sitting MP's who are not out of a job, but those who cling on have a lot to be optimistic about.

 

[funkshen]

i think the ALP will be happy with the 13 seats that lentern has so graciously given them

ungrateful cunts

 

[Lentern]

i think the ALP will be happy with the 13 seats that lentern has so graciously given them

ungrateful cunts

Don't be cynical Algernon , it's perfectly easy to be cynical.

 

[Aerath]

Labor getting womped at the moment.

Antony Green on ABC 24 just now: "This is a disaster for Labor".

 

[funkshen]

if the ALP get 13 seats, that will be one more labor than heracles

a tridecathlon if you will

 

[Aerath]

Holy fuck, according to ABC 24, it's 59-5 LNP/ALP.

At this rate, KAP will be in Opposition, lol.

 

[funkshen]

mutiny on the bounty

 

[soloooooo]

What a landslide.

 

[soloooooo]

"Count has 65 seats to the LNP, four seats to Labor, Katter's Australian Party three and independent seats three."

 

[Rafy]

Ouch.

 

[Lolsmith]

I look forward to Danny's Facebook status about this

 

[soloooooo]

I look forward to Danny's Facebook status about this

Ok

 

[Aerath]

This is ridiculous.

 

[soloooooo]

Labor strategist was happy that the smallest swing against them was only 8%...

If these swings translated federally every Labor seat in Qld would be lost, with the exception of Kevin Rudds possibly.

 

[soloooooo]

You need 10 seats in Qld to qualify as opposition party status.

 

[funkshen]

maybe if they weren't communists

 

[soloooooo]

It is Gillards fault for a large part of it. If Rudd was PM again the massacre in Qld wouldn't have been as bad as this.