a) Very useless

b) Extremely useless

c) Useless beyond imagination

Bias_2012 wrote on Jul 11^th, 2016 at 12:51am:


Not as useless as Labor or the Greens.

At least the Nationals are part of the government.

What do you mean useless ? They are the best door mat that the Liberals ever had ?

John Smith wrote on Jul 11^th, 2016 at 9:45am:


x2

Bloody useless Nationals have waited till dairy farmers go broke and sell up before offering to talk to the milk buying companies about their reneging on milk prices ....(Nationals aren't mentioned in the link, but they were, on the same 4 Corners TV program tonight)


"It began at the end of April when Australia's biggest milk processor, Murray Goulburn, slashed the price dairy farmers had been expecting for their milk."


"At the milk price Murray Goulburn is offering, they will not be able to buy the water or fertiliser they need to grow the grass to feed their cows."


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-15/dairy-farmers-forced-to-sell-up-in-face-of...



How many of us would object to paying an extra 40c-50c on the Home Brand 2L milk? $2 now, another 50c wouldn't hurt me, how about you? Actually I'd be happy to pay $3, this milk hasn't been inflation adjusted for ten years, I checked some old Woolies receipts I've dug out, going back to 2005

WJV wrote on Aug 22^nd, 2016 at 2:07pm:


highly doubtful

Updating this thread 

Orange By-Election

A news report I heard said "In some booths there was a 60% swing away from the Nationals"

Counting still in progress


http://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/politics/nsw-nationals-leader-troy-grant...

Bias_2012 wrote on Aug 15^th, 2016 at 11:54pm:

I pay $4-odd for 2L of milk. I buy the Paris Creek Dairy organic full cream unhomogenised milk. When I can I buy direct from the dairy at a Farmers Market, if not from my local Foodlands. Full cream unhomogenised—the less the milk is mucked around with the more food value it has.

Better a bit of fat than a lot of sugar.

Bias_2012 wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2016 at 10:20am:





Couldn't think of a better outcome.


Soon there will be parliaments all across this great land filled with representatives who bear a deep hatred of the inner city w@nker. 

And will be well.

We Nationals are not useless. We have been in the shadow of the (city) Liberals fro so long. It was supposed to be a merge, but it became a take over by the Liberals.
But they have shown their true colours and their weakness.
It is time us Nationals go our own way for better or worse. We have new opposition on the horizon now - the likes of One Nation and the Greens. Australia needs us to come back from the Liberal shadows. We need to show Australia its conservative Nationalism again, rather than this flip One Nation version of just Media-mongering.

The Nationals hold strong that Rural is always a loser populated by inbred Hicks while sophisticated City people always win... just like it is in the Northern Hemisphere.

I think the Nationals are just doing their thing, like every other Political Party here... still running things as if it was the Northern Hemisphere.

Move along, nothing to see here folks.

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I always thought that the National party was good for nothing but you have proven me wrong.

When it comes to being useless they are terrific.

Produce prices are going up, some as much as 50% in supermarkets

A third of Adelaide's vineyards wiped out by bush fires

Thousands of sheep died in fires

Bee keepers lost hives and bees

Water is scarce in drought stricken rural areas, water trucked in but still not enough

Tax payers now footing the bill of $75,000 relief for each eligible farmer


All because of the useless, negligent and failing National party

Jasin wrote on Jan 14^th, 2020 at 9:41pm:



Wouldn't be too soon either ..... and what we don't need is the pathetic culture of a Prime Minster who grabs the hands of unwilling victims trying to shake them while oblivious to the devastation around him and showing no empathy but just out for a photo shoot and bunging on a "look at me" attitude

The behavior of the Libs and Nationals during this bush fire crisis has demonstrated what they really think of rural folk, not Australians like them, but just country bumkins, and it explains why they do little to assist in calmer times, spending on better roads, wider fire breaks, more water towers etc etc

But then they're good at waiting for a crisis, even if people die. A crisis is their ticket to working out vote catching solutions - Problem > Crisis > Solution - they know it too well

Another power outage today just west of the Blue Mountains, 5hours 20mins - That makes 237 outages since Jan 2013, when I first decentralized from Sydney. I write down every outage

It's a National party seat, so again, how useless is the National party? Pretty damn useless if you ask me

Its a cultural thing of Politics that showed in the Civil Wars of both USA and UK (Cromwell).
That 'city' people are the civilised and country people are inbred hicks.
Even Australia's Political interpretation promotes 'Country' people as a tragedy of drowning oneself into a Billabong.
So the National Party just plays along with it.
So 'Politically' - the Country/Rural culture is inferior and the 'city' people are superior. This might also explain Politics inability to comprehend the more 'rural' Black cultures of the world, in bias and servitude to the Yellows in their Forbidden Cities and Shangri-la's.

But it seems the Country and Rural people who are becoming more 'educated' and even making more money than their 'city' competitors here in Australia are doing so with a touch of ART in their culture more than Politics.

Politics = Pro-City (Yellow people)
              Anti-Rural (Black people)

...this kinda sums up why Politics never took Aboriginal 'care' of the country as something serious beyond the 'primitive' tag.

Personally, it seems that this country has been ruined in many ways - just to 'protect' Politics.
If everything was treated equally here, I reckon many Politicians would find it hard going here.
But because they use 'FORCE' (Police/Military) to make sure 'everything' bends the knee to them - they have got it pretty.
You could even see ScoMo ready to lose the plot at the idea that he should bend the knee to the Fire Crises (its not Politics you see).

Ayn Marx wrote on Jan 18^th, 2020 at 9:47am:


I didn't really mean that they are dumb hicks, mostly. though your example could be the exception that proves the rule. I don't think that education trumps inbred political habit. Some of these guys have been shooting themself in the foot for generations.

There is no way around the facts that:

1) The nationals are a danger to the environment.
2) Farmers depend on the environment more than almost anyone.
3) Farmers traditionally support the Nationals politically or worse the Liberals.
4) This is really really dumb, they are their own worst enemy

It does make them look like dumb hicks even if they aren't.

There is a schism in the Rural/Country existence.
There are those that live by the 'downtrodden' people of the land culture and the now progressive, alternative people who can't be bothered 'playing the victim' and waiting for Government hand-outs because they can't get ahead using a Crop or Animal that is not 'suitable' in the Australian environment unless it uses heaps of water or chemicals, etc.

There are victims and there are victors.

Ayn Marx wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2020 at 10:16am:

Well if you're going to have the most drug effected region of the World known as the 'most virulent'.
Then you might as well profit from it, rather than let other nations get the better from it. Best not make it a 'dead' loss.

They whinge about people using their Air-Cons and soaking up their Power.

Makes me wonder what they will say when everyone drives Electrical vehicles then.

How useless is the National Party?

depends what you use as a yardstick

The Nationals & Democrats do for the Liberals, exactly what the Greens & Unions do for Labor. They make both of them look better than they really are.

Labor & Liberal don't like having too many competitors out there. That's why they keep these other 4 under the wing and 'under control'.

Even now they try to reign in the Independents.
They don't like Australian people having a CHOICE.

It's all about Ping-Pong: Labor & Liberal are the Paddles and the Voter is the Ball.

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They haven't had much recent luck with corruption either, seems a slew of their leaders and number Two's have had problems with integrity.

Once again we witnessed how useless the National party is, allowing bush fires to kill people and burn property to a cinder. They haven't even apologized yet, where's their sense of humanity? completely inhumane

What came after that?, sports rorts, Minister sacked, totally useless

Then a leadership spill with Barnaby Joyce contesting .... Crickey, when does the uselessness ever end?

The NSW Nationals leader and Deputy Premier, John Bari­laro, made no secret of his desire for the seat of Eden-Monaro ­to remain in Labor hands.

How useless is this Barilaro traitor?, useless even to his own party

NSW Nationals awoke from their coma on Friday, the day before the bi-election, and promised some road building, not for motorists pleasure, but for jobs and economic boosting because of the Coronavirus. Then they lapsed back into their coma

No mention of the type of road building or the mileage to be built - pretty useless