<< In a recent survey conducted amongst businesses along Parramatta Road … used car salesmen were judged to be the number one profession for honesty and integrity … >>

Interesting Paul.

I also note from the spiel at the top of the Images of Professions Poll, that the police scored very differently in different states. They were very highly rated in South Australia (84%), but rated lowly in Victoria (64%), West Australia (58%) and Tasmania (53%).

And I’m sure that for some professions if not all, there would be a very wide deviation in views and that the figure presented is only the average and not really much of an indication at all of what people think.

Then there is the omission of important professions such scientists, environmentalists, and cleaners and garbos, etc, etc.

So…. Its not much of a meaningful survey at all, all-considered!

"In a recent survey conducted amongst businesses along Parramatta Road Sydney from about Croydon to Parramatta it was fond that used car salesmen were judged to be the number one profession for honesty and integrity when it come to dealings with the general public."

Ludwig If your not from Sydney you may not get the joke. That stretch of Parramatta Rd in Sydney is all used car yards. LOL.

Posted by Pericles, Thursday, 17 May 2012 7:46:44 AM

" ... We poor voters, on the other hand, are required to sit back and see our precious, democratic vote trashed beyond recognition by a bunch of venal, self-obsessed sleazebags, whose idea of a successful political career has nothing to do with looking after our interests, and everything to do with a featherbedded life of superannuated splendor. ... "

My thanks for much mirth *Pericles* provided by your insightful comments.

;-)

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Of course, it begs the question as to why the majority of us do not choose to give our vote to other than the 2 mainstream political parties?

Always happy to bring a little mirth into people's lives, DreamOn.

I am a little puzzled by your question, though.

>>Of course, it begs the question as to why the majority of us do not choose to give our vote to other than the 2 mainstream political parties?<<

My observation was in no sense confined to political parties, mainstream or otherwise. As voters, we have absolutely no confidence that anyone we elect, of any political hue, will perform in line with the commitments they made while seeking our support at the ballot box.

And the reason we have no confidence is that is is a very long time since any Party met those commitments. The poison in the tank is that we are actually resigned to the fact that they will do exactly as they please, once they have their glossy, gym-toned, callipygous buttocks on the green leather. We actually *expect* to be short-changed.

Anyone who believes that a member from a minor party will behave any differently, has either been asleep or suffers from a serious Polyanna complex. Look what happened to the Democrats; from high ideals in 1977 to internecine mayhem in 1997. Or, to put it another way, from Don Chipp to Cheryl Kernot.

'Nuff said.

The only possibility we have to change all this, is to insist that an elected member is required to fulfil the agenda that they placed before their voters. If a Bill is presented that they opposed in the run-up to the election, they either oppose it in Parliament, or resign. If a Bill is presented, the substance of which was endorsed in their manifesto, they would be obliged to support it in Parliament, or resign.

Code of conduct? Pshaw.

Make them answerable to us for a change. That would be democracy.

Another thing with this survey is that it doesn't show which profession is actually selling their expertise due to demand & which are employed via the public purse apart from public servants.
Consultants & lawyers etc are not public servants yet huge sums are being forked out for their supposed "services". It's a massive sort bandwagon with no brakes. That's what surveys should be done on.

Individual, on the score of 'consultants' the Liberal Party is as guilty as the Labor Party. The O'Farrell government here in NSW, loves a consultant, Barry refers everything to a committee.