People should avoid the ALP at all costs. This is a party filled with incompetent, corrupt, self-centred people who run one of the most disfunctional political parties in this country's history.

Everyone saw what Gillard did to Rudd. While she was proclaiming her loyalty to Rudd publicly, privately she was putting into place plans to take over his job. Then she plunged the knife into his back.

This government has presided over one monumental screw-up after another.

One of the first was Rudd dismantling Howard's so-called Pacific Solution in the name of being seen as more humanitarian. The result couldn't be further from that goal, with thousands dead and more than 15,000 having been caught in boats trying to enter Australia illegally.

Then we saw the pink batts program, a stuff-up of lethal propoertions that saw a number of people die as well as houses burning to the ground. The school BER was ripped off to epic proportions with taxpayers losing billions of dollars. There was fuelwatch, grocerywatch, the TER.

This government has proven to be one of the most incompetent managers of the economy ever - eclipsing Keating for that title. Rudd was gifted a surplus of tens of billions of dollars. It is now a deficit of hundreds of billions of dollars and national debt is currently somewhere between $6000 to $8000 for every man, woman and child and growing at a rate of about $100m every day.

Gillard harps on about bringing the budget back to surplus, but only a fool would believe she could do that while increasing her borrowing limit at the same time, with no end in sight to how much will be borrowed.

We've got a PM who simply cannot be trusted. She promised no carbon tax prior to the last election and lied, subsequently teaming with Bob Brown to introduce one. She promised to introduce poker machine reforms with Andrew Wilkie but knifed him when Jenkins moved to the back benches, making Wilkie politically impotent.

The government is once again unstable, with MPs wanting Gillard gone, but not wanting Rudd back either and with no clear successor, continue to tear themselves apart from the inside out.

This is the worst government we've ever had and they've got to go. It would be a grave mistake of epic proportions if the ALP were re-elected. Australia literally can't afford another ALP term in office.

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How is he phoney? He isn't PM, so can't break any promises as he isn't in a position to deliver on them. He can change policies to suit changed situations, such as the deficit and debt increasing even more under Labor. Our current PM, however, is an entirely different story! She's turned lying into an artform.

A lot of it will boil down to what he will do as an alternative government.  We do know a few very frightening things, but for the best part of it, we are still kept in the dark.    

Yawn, another fruit loop, with zero ability to make any real critical analysis, and parrots the same idiocy we get from the loony right shock jocks.
Have fun.

That's as may be, but I still will NOT vote for the Coalition under any
circumstances. Looks like a vote for an independent for me.

cods wrote on Feb 4^th, 2012 at 7:09am:


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At least we know that he won't be borrowing haphazardly and activating unplanned schemes.

He hasn't as magic wand, either, and it will be a long process to rescue the country from its present sinking into quicksand.

I sincerely hope that he'll put on hold these "abroad studies"  that the mongrel Labor MPs have been enjoying.

Yawn, another fruit loop, with zero ability to make any real critical analysis, and parrots the same idiocy we get from the loony right shock jocks.
Have fun.


And you looney left crap comes from blogs, crikey, greens.com and the ABC.

'Shock jocks busted the pink batts, BER, Gillards adviser and many more that main stream media picked up and ran with.

One should consider the other choice.  The Australian Greens.  The alternative to both labor and liberal.  The fair and sensible people.