Australian Politics Forum - How can it be, she said it wasn't but it is now??

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Re: How can it be, she said it wasn't but it is now??
Reply #30 - Aug 24^th, 2010 at 10:55pm

longweekend58 wrote on Aug 24^th, 2010 at 10:52pm:

Ive predicted that when Labor loses this election - as it is looking increasingly like it will - there will be a bloodbath in the ALP. This is just the warmup!

Interesting though, did you catch Kevin Rudd's victory speech in Queensland?
Glowing and smiling!

See his supporters?

Wearing yellow t-shirts and not a single mention of 'ALP' anywhere.

Interesting, suggests Kev may have actually enjoyed it a little bit....

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Reply #31 - Aug 24^th, 2010 at 11:02pm

longweekend58 wrote on Aug 24^th, 2010 at 10:52pm:

Ive predicted that when Labor loses this election - as it is looking increasingly like it will - there will be a bloodbath in the ALP. This is just the warmup!

The LibLabs are both deeply fractured - and, regardless of which one ends up governing, there will be a bloodbath within both parties...

No doubt, however, the bloodbath of the losing party will come sooner and will probably be more messy...

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Reply #32 - Aug 25^th, 2010 at 8:14am

buzzanddidj wrote on Aug 24^th, 2010 at 6:27pm:

longweekend58 wrote on Aug 24^th, 2010 at 4:42pm:

buzzanddidj wrote on Aug 24^th, 2010 at 3:29pm:

In MY electorate (Ballarat) the Greens did not allocate prefences - which I believe was the case in not just this electorate
The best solution I had was via a 'how to vote Liberal card' -numbered in REVERSE

When they ARE given it is a "serving suggestion" only - the decision on preferences is always the decision of the voter
Anyone that says a Green vote is an "automatic vote for Labor" is talking a LOAD of NONSENSE

But if you take out the word 'automatic' it DOES become true. With 80-90% of green preferences flowing to labor your protestations ring a little hollow!

Not at ALL
There is no shortage of political NONGS who still have this belief that the Greens preference swap ends as a Labor vote

NOTHING is further from the truth
If 80% of Greens voters give their preferences to Labor - that is a logical perogative forced on no-one

And also most of sound mind
What sort fool votes for the party that represents the environment

first

- and then

second

the party that represents the mining industry ?

Don't worry about him Buzz, the dick cant even spell properly and he bags Labor for education.

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Re: How can it be, she said it wasn't but it is now??
Reply #33 - Aug 25^th, 2010 at 10:05am

skippy. wrote on Aug 25^th, 2010 at 8:14am:

buzzanddidj wrote on Aug 24^th, 2010 at 6:27pm:

longweekend58 wrote on Aug 24^th, 2010 at 4:42pm:

buzzanddidj wrote on Aug 24^th, 2010 at 3:29pm:

In MY electorate (Ballarat) the Greens did not allocate prefences - which I believe was the case in not just this electorate
The best solution I had was via a 'how to vote Liberal card' -numbered in REVERSE

When they ARE given it is a "serving suggestion" only - the decision on preferences is always the decision of the voter
Anyone that says a Green vote is an "automatic vote for Labor" is talking a LOAD of NONSENSE

But if you take out the word 'automatic' it DOES become true. With 80-90% of green preferences flowing to labor your protestations ring a little hollow!

Not at ALL
There is no shortage of political NONGS who still have this belief that the Greens preference swap ends as a Labor vote

NOTHING is further from the truth
If 80% of Greens voters give their preferences to Labor - that is a logical perogative forced on no-one

And also most of sound mind
What sort fool votes for the party that represents the environment

first

- and then

second

the party that represents the mining industry ?

Don't worry about him Buzz, the dick cant even spell properly and he bags Labor for education.

You mistake typos from fast typing with spelling. Unlike you, I am an author who CAN write and write well. But you claim to be a political science student yet make the most basic political mistakes!

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Re: How can it be, she said it wasn't but it is now??
Reply #34 - Aug 25^th, 2010 at 11:02am

longweekend58 wrote on Aug 25^th, 2010 at 10:05am:

You mistake typos from fast typing with spelling. Unlike you, I am an author who CAN write and write well. But you claim to be a political science student yet make the most basic political mistakes!

Have you written a book?
What is it on? Fiction or Fact based?

Most I have written was a dissertation at university on the Asian Financial Crisis of 1998 which I look back on now and really enjoyed too.

In the middle of it and working to deadlines, it felt less enjoyable.

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