Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2025 at 11:16am:



That graph is pretty telling.
I hadn’t seen those figures and just believed the mainstream media that it was a complete white wash of the liberals.

I wonder how many of these independents are fake and just labor plants?

The LNP Gold Coast council got caught out doing exactly that!

Won 84 seats outright at last election so must be doing something right

LNP never again wrote on Aug 24^th, 2025 at 10:14pm:


After preferences is not outright...

34.7% of the vote cannot give you 84/150 seats outright = 56% unless you are cheating and gerrymandering, and clearly shows the real need for change to more align with the wishes of the electors....

Stolen Election - stolen from the voting public... EVERY TIME!

My apologies - the 2022 figure I posted was related to the seat held by the leader of party.... sneaky ... sorry Daves - I messed that one up ...

In any case - the major parties gain only about a third of votes - therefore should not be gaining a massive government superiority... literally - nobody really wants them - yet they are foisted upon us time after time.

Not matter how you cook it - it is either cheating or a gerrymander - and not the will of the people... if the will of the people was paramount, Labour would have a minority of 52 seats, LNP 46 seats, and Others 52 seats between them ... so a coalition would need to be cobbled together to form a government....

Now - we can continue to dedicate ourselves to forming government by neat little tricks to keep us in power - or we can give full and impartial value to the TRUE vote of the poor!! How say you Members of the Senate?

Preferential voting delivers superior results to proportional voting (state as one constituency) and first past the post voting.

Look at the mess in Europe.

freediver wrote on Aug 25^th, 2025 at 8:08am:


Look at the mess in Europe.

Hmm, a few weeks back I said that I suspected "Labor majority government" might be a reincarnation of juliar. (which was apparently a lame attempt to portray Julia Gillard as a liar). 

However, unless juliar has done a complete shift from hard right to hard left in politics during the past 5 years then they're obviously not the same person.

It's a pity juliar isn't still here because I would dearly love to see him/her and "Labor majority government" replying to each other in the same thread.

The resulting torrent of stupidity and illogic would be mind boggling. Not to mention hilarious.

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2025 at 10:42pm:



In March 1918, at a crucial point in the civil war, Lenin appointed Trotsky Commissar for Military Affairs and in that capacity he took draconian measures to reorganise and reinvigorate the Red Army. Deserters were summarily shot on Trotsky’s orders, and other exemplary executions took place. He coerced tsarist officers into his own ranks by taking their families hostage and aimed ‘to run a hot iron down the spine of the Ukrainian kulaks’. As an exponent of repression, Trotsky equalled Stalin, whom he despised as ‘an oafish provincial’ and who in turn, repelled by his rival’s prissy pince-nez and primped goatee, derided him as ‘an operetta commander’. Certainly Trotsky was vain and theatrical, racing around in his armoured train with a film crew, a radio station, a printing press and a band. But he was also an inspired demagogue, a brilliant propagandist and a charismatic leader, who made an incomparable contribution to defeating the Whites. Many thought he would emerge as the Soviet Napoleon; the American Red Cross representative Raymond Robins pronounced him ‘the greatest Jew since Jesus Christ’.

However, Trotsky was no match for Stalin when it came to monopolising power. After Lenin’s death the malign Georgian began to fashion a new kind of tyranny, gradually isolating Trotsky, who famously castigated him as ‘the grave digger of the revolution’. In 1929, Trotsky was expelled from Russia and endured a peripatetic exile until 1937, when he was given asylum in Mexico thanks to the intervention of the communist artist Diego Rivera. By then, Stalin was eliminating any last suspected foes, validating the purge in show trials which supposedly revealed that the USSR was under threat from a monstrous Trotskyite conspiracy. Maybe he believed this and maybe Trotsky did too, imagining that he was still (in Churchill’s phrase) ‘the ogre of Europe’, although he rightly denounced the trials as ‘the greatest frame-up in history’. By the outbreak of the Second World War Stalin was less preoccupied by Hitler than by Trotsky, making his liquidation a principal goal of Soviet foreign policy.
https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-kremlins-long-reach