So if I have three candidates for a job position, and I don't really like either of them, I should give it to the one I dislike least, and then let the other two hang around and do their best to stuff up what the first one is doing? Way to go, Ian!

Why is it so hard for the left to accept that it's lost? Is it because of their prolonged self-indoctrination with the credo that the facts don't matter, as long as you BELIEVE hard enough? That didn't work for the Commissars, and it's not going to work here.

< In the first place only 45% voted for the Coalition, which could be interpreted as 55% not wanting their policies. >

And of that 45%, the majority voted for the Coalition because they thought they were slightly less repulsive than Labor. Maybe some of them had one or two policy positions in their minds when they voted, but most would have had none at all!

< Prime Minister Tony Abbott seems to be labouring under the misapprehension that he has a “mandate” for all the policies he went to the last federal election with. Nothing could be further from the truth. >

Absolutely, Ian!

< …we the people might have given the Liberal Party a general mandate to govern us for three years… >

All we did was kick out the former government! The current government is only in power because they were the only alternative. Hardly anyone likes them. We haven’t given them a mandate to govern us!

It is interesting that this whining article should appear on the day that it has been proved that Arafat was poisoned by polonium which strongly suggest a connection with the Israel Government and Mossad.

The author, an Israeli apologist, has never once conceded that his countrymen have made life for the Palestinians a constant horror as their sixty year occupation and blockade of the West Bank and Gaza continues.

When people point out the genocide, the war crimes, the atrocities, the humiliation that are the lot of the Palestinians, the Singer never acknowledges them. He pretends they aren't occurring.

He then accuses anyone who brings to the attention of the world, the plight of the hapless Palestinians of being Jew-Haters.

He wants them to show their addresses so that Mossad can pay them a visit or he, as a lawyer, can use the law against them, get them involved in frivolous Court cases, bleed them financially, shut them up, stop their attempts to seek justice for the long-suffering Palestinians!

I have, over years, been engaged in many issues which include opposing American Imperialism. I comment on blogs across the world and, to protect myself and my family, I use pseudonyms because I don't want some religious or political 'wacko' taking potshots at me.

I don't hate Jews but I do hate what they do to the Palestinians. I hate Jewish brutality and cruelty. I hate the fact that the Palestinians have never had a day of true freedom since 1948, that Palestinian children grow up with the sound of Israeli tanks and F16s and the harsh sound of IDF military boots echoing up and down their streets. They, classed as subhumans, live under constant Jewish/Israeli oppression.

To the Singer, these things are necessary. He is looking forward to Greater Israel coming into being, the racist Jews only State.

He hates the truth about Israel being exposed. He wants Israeli atrocities hidden. He wants to pretend they never occur.

He wants to shoot the messengers who care about the Palestinians and try to help them.

Singer is a dangerous man!

Graham, this comment was by accident posted on this thread. Would you mind removing it?

Thanks.

David.

The sheer unabashed irrationality and hypocrisy of the left wing really is their main characteristic, isn't it?

Yes it's true that the "mandate" of government is a myth.

But of course so is it when Labor's in government! Where was the author when exactly the same argument applied, even more strongly because the carbon tax not only didn't have a "mandate", was based on blatant fraud which, if done in the private sector, would have seen Gillard imprisoned for a very long time.

(Ludwig never ceases to urge large-scale government attacks on society to achieve his anti-human religion of sustainability, even though nothing in this universe is sustainable, and even though he admits it would require totalitarian power, and he admits that even then there would be no way of knowing whether government was succeeding in achieving its aims. By the way, Labor increased the population by 400,000 in the last year Ludwig, but you're still posting your hopes of sustainability on them, aren't you?)

The fact is, governments are not elected, only local members are elected. Governments are *appointed* by the viceroy. The Prime Minister is appointed, not elected. Same with all the Ministry.

There can be no mandate when any voter cannot by his vote, distinguish policies on offer that he agrees with, from those he disagrees with.

It's not just the mandate that's a myth, it's representative government. But that gives less, not more excuse for Labor's policy of the permanent rape of society by the State's armed thugs.

Jardine
What about the fact that it is always the "right" side of politics that are the biggest supporters of "law and order", increasing the number of "state armed thugs" and increasing incarceration?

It is not the left that is responsible for the "permanent rape of society by the State's armed thugs." that is all you rightards doing.
No one loves a pig more than a fat cat capitalist with lots of lucre to protect from the masses he stole it from.

The state has always protected the rich from the poor. That is what it is for. I wonder why people like jardine cant see that?