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The people of New South Wales have lost : Comments

By Jonathan J. Ariel, published 27/3/2007

Twelve years of hard Labor is too much to bear. Sixteen years is truly cataclysmic.

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That smell it is the smell of decay, an unresponsive conservative party reaction to the 21st loss in state elections.
It did not happen! look how bad the ALP was! but never say or even look at the dreadful Liberal defeat.
The loss of the election that never ever should have been lost is not we are told the fault of conservative rot.
But it is ! this morning in a NSW country town a national party higher up told me Labor only got 40% of the primary vote!
Failing to understand that alone was more than any other party.
How can conservative Australia waltz to wards the impending train wreck that will more than match Lathams and blindly claim it is not true?
And how could they have given a life to Labors new star in NSW?
Yes Morris, hold those words of contempt within weeks he will have stamped his brand on government and even some conservatives will see the lost chances of the past 18 months needed to be taken and it may be another 12 years till such chances come again.
Oh yes that was 21 lost elections in a row, 21 times the voters , most voters bought the ALP product rejected conservatives one
Is that not clear?
Posted by Belly, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 4:49:17 PM
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Trains, roads, hospitals, water; are there any issues that haven't gone bad for this government? Yet the liberals still can't win. Now, who said that workchoices didn't play a part in this election!
Posted by Fly man, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 5:44:06 PM
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The people of NSW have lost - true. But the people of NSW were going to lose whatever the outcome of the election: the incumbents are demonstrably incompetent, and in the considered opinion of most of the losers, the alternative was worse. The only hope is that with four years to play with, the NSW Government will divert some of its energy from politicking to running the State. Or at least, the trains.
Posted by Pequod, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 6:22:54 PM
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Everyone seems to be complaining about the state of Roads, Hospitals, Trains and Water. Perhaps NSW is ungovernable by any political party. Perhaps the need to get a majority of votes, from the public or within the factions, is inimical to good goernment.

Someone called for a Jeff Kennett style of leader. How about a Mussolini?

Now is the time of opportunity for the Liberal Party. Be an effective opposition. Come up with a coherent set of policies to manage the chaos. True the media won't want to hear anything from the opposition for the next three years. But nonetheless, come up with sensible criticism and good policies that Labor will want to pinch. Opposition is an honorable, potentially constructive, and ultimately a vote winning activity.

Fencepost.
Posted by Fencepost, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 6:43:52 PM
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In Sydney, all the Labor seats occupy the west and south west of the city. These areas generally have the worst public transport services, the worst health services – yet more health problems, the worst schools, the most ugly and depressing streetscapes, and the most crime and violence. On top of that NSW is the sickest economy in the country, with the highest level of bankruptcies and the greatest proportion of people with mortgages in arrears. It’s no surprise really, when you consider the sort of mentality that a politician who grew up in these areas would possess. What they lack in brains, they gain in street smart gutter tactics. Add to that a public which laps up rubbish like Big Brother, yaps away on mobiles about nothing half the time and boozes in pubs the other half, you can make them believe any nonsense - like false fears about Workchoices and the opposition leader’s policies and ability.
Posted by Robg, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 6:56:31 PM
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Yes the majority have lost to these devious right wing scoundrels. For instance,the Labor Party has unremittingly sabotaged the railways hoping for collapse so they can hand it over (privatisation)to the financiers for their immense profiteering and vile greed. Then on last Saturdays election some grandiloquent promises about fixing up the railways. There will be some 'urgent window dressing' applied, a 'lick of paint and polish' followed up by a quick fix solution of train cancellations so that fewer trains will be late. Vital maintenance too will be cut to save money. The writer I am sure, knows there are no political differences between labor and liberal unless he has political blindness, naive or politically deceitful. Billionaires Murdoch and Fairfax and the nerve centers of capitalism the banks, clearly understand Labor is a far more useful tool, a better bet, to carry through the next round of attacks in order to increase their wealth. The problem for the financiers with the liberals is this growing hatred. The fact is that the 'economic substance' of capitalist exploitation will in no way be affected - either would gladly attempt to bring in the new industrial relations (IR) laws. Both Labor and Liberal are bosses parties staffed by a grasping layer of careerists with their snouts firmly on the money trail, they are right wing agents of the capitalists. The writer reviles but what is discernible from his writings, is he has the same right wing politics. He attacks the election result from the right. Both parties are dedicated, wedded or welded to economic nationalism, anchored to the nation state in a thousand ways. Both Labor and Liberal are absolutely hostile to workers unifying their struggles internationally. Why? Because workers would get out of their control, realize they are two thousand millions strong, grasp that their real strength is in uniting more deeply and widely; smash their chains. The effect would be electric, political power would be on the agenda and society run under the democratic control of workers.
Posted by johncee1945, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 7:48:33 PM
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