Jack the Lad "Those are for us to find out if you ever gained the balance of power."

Funny thing about having the balance of power is that you only have the balance of power on issues which are otherwise fairly evenly divided - in practical terms when the coalition and labor disagree.

Not much scope for extreme ideas in that.

Now if only there was a party that actually was interested in "keeping the bastards honest" rather than pushing their own agenda's.

I'd love to see the balance of power with someone who would block legislation which broke election promises or was not clearly spelt out during the election. Unforseen legislation which was agreed to by the major parties would still get through but things like work choices would have to be presented to the voters at an election.

R0bert

We really are the "Lucky Country." We get to elect our government.
We actually have a choice. There are so many people who don't have that right. We can agree to disagree - but let's keep things in perspective - and count our blessings - because there are many.

CJ, when your response to views against yours was 'vacuous sloganeering', I felt that it was pointless to go into detail. Your reply to that was, again, 'vacuous sloganeering'. Kind of makes my point.
It's funny that you expect us to believe that any policies that the majority of the electorate would not like are presented up-front before the election - come on!

RObert, even if the Big Two were evenly divided over an issue, I'd hate to see crackpots like the Greens having the casting vote. Also, they could blackmail Labour or Liberal for that casting vote while demanding a concession on one of their own policies as the price. Enter the 'extreme ideas'.

Jack the Lad, it's vacuous sloganeering precisely because you can't identify any Greens policies that are 'communist' or 'Red', despite being directed to all of them.

More vacuous sloganeering is evident in labeling the Greens' policies as 'crackpot' and 'extreme' ideas, without actually indicating which ideas are 'crackpot' and 'extreme', and why.

If anybody's crackpot and extreme in their political beliefs here, it's those like Jack the Lad who offer only slogans with absolutely no substance.

Jack the Lad "Also, they could blackmail Labour or Liberal for that casting vote while demanding a concession on one of their own policies as the price. Enter the 'extreme ideas'."

True that they may get concessions for stuff that the party they are dealing with is not strongly against but they are unlikely to get anything through that will go strongly against the big players platform (any more than the big players already violate their platforms).

I really don't see any chance of concessions to put through extreme agenda's unless the party they are dealing with is already extreme.

R0bert

CJ, you directed me to your policies and I named some that I saw as Commie or Red (Tuesday, 20 November 2007 10:46:23 AM)). Didn't you see that? You certainly never responded but accused me of non-response. How crackpot vacuous can you be? Oh, I forgot, you're a Greenie.

RObert, I hope you're right.