Uncle Meat wrote on May 18^th, 2012 at 3:54pm:


Riiiggghhhtttt. No answer to what I said, I see. Just a lame argument over terminology.

Armchair_Politician wrote on May 18^th, 2012 at 3:48pm:


OK, let's look at this a little closer:

1. In order to vote, one must be on the electoral roll.
2. Illegal immigrants can not be put onto an electoral roll.

Thus, your question makes no sense. 

If illegal immigrants have no way of voting (they simply will not be handed ballot papers on election day), how exactly are they a "potential new vote for the Greens or Labor"?

FriYAY wrote on May 18^th, 2012 at 4:10pm:


I think these people might not agree with you:

http://www.cruisedirect.co.uk/

Armchair_Politician wrote on May 18^th, 2012 at 3:57pm:



Forget the terminology, let's just look at the facts (and answer your question):

a) in order to vote, one must be on the electoral roll
b) illegal immigrants can not be put onto an electoral roll

Ok, now to your question (ignoring the fact that illegal immigrants aren't actually accepted into this country):

Q: "Every new illegal immigrant accepted into this country is a potential new vote for the Greens or Labor - didn't you know that?"

A: No, I didn't know that at all.

However, I'd love to hear your reasoning.  How exactly can someone be a "potential new vote", for any political party, if they can not be included on the electoral roll?   

Guess what the Green and the ALP invented Terra Nullus and the White Australia policy and the 19th century poor houses...

adelcrow wrote on May 18^th, 2012 at 4:14pm:


P&O? Is that some sort of people smuggling organisation?

Got to have more paying customers for the Grfeen McDonalds that they put in the working class suburbs...