Scott who?

G’mooorn’n CJ

Ok, so you’ve put up two posts on this thread, with a grand total of 19 words!

So um, you are following this discussion but not really contributing anything meaningful { :>)

Could you please tell me what you think the Libs should do regarding their leadership and policies in order to maximise their chances of winnin da next lection?

It ammusses me how you all talk about who will win the next election, when it is clearly a case of whether or not the sitting government will loose badly enough to see a change of government.

Now until we start seeing some 'winners', rather than 'loosers' in polotics, we are all loosers.

It's long been a race to the bottom.

Belly,

'Hoolly, you do know why we call it two party preferred do you?'

Of course. But if everyone did it, by chance neither of the two main would be elected, and even if they were, they would see that they weren't really first choice, so could STFU about having a 'mandate' to do whatever they liked.

'Your advice would see the second last you vote for elected if we all did it.'

How? If there were no seats going to any Labor or Liberal candidates (Or certainly very few), how do they form government? Perhaps the Shooters party would be elected, or worse the Greens.

Is it just that you cant even imagine a non major party candidate getting 50% of the primary vote?

Remember Also Belly, 'If no candidate secures an absolute majority of primary votes, then the candidate with the least number of votes is "eliminated" from the count.'

I long for a misfit bunch of independents and greens holding the power. Anarchy would teach the two parties a lesson in humility. I suppose there is the danger the Libs/Labour/Nats would form a new party and we would have 1 party. Actually not that different to now.

The Administrative Bureaucracy to the Mining Industry and Banks. Has a nice ring to it.

'Boyfriend is in this case a sexist and abusive way to talk of our leaders partner'

Wow, I call my 'partner' my girlfriend all the time. Never knew I was being sexist and abusive.

Hi Ludwig. Actually, I think rehctub's last succinct comment is right on the mark, although perhaps not for the reason he thinks.

I now think that the Australian electorate probably deserves to suffer under Abbott, given Gillard's shameless dog-whistling over asylum seekers. If they respond, that is - and I'm rather hopeful that the odious strategy backfires on Labor.

The best result would be a hung parliament, with the Greens holding the balance of power in the Senate.

If the Coalition lose, the first step towards any viable resuscitation would be to ditch the vile Abbott in favour of Turnbull, I would have thought.