Dear Cossomby,

Firstly, do you mind if I call you Somby for short?

I have too much respect for myself to allow myself to be drawn into the madhouse of political participation and I have no desire to have any control over the decision-making processes. But I do expect a high level of integrity and honesty from those who expect to be renumerated for doing so. And Barrel just doesn't do it for me.

Mr. Opinion,

<< Why do you think Gillard and Abbott are trying to win over voters on matters that are really a state concern? >> I Hope these answers help.

It’s an election year.

It’s called wedge politics.

The ALP is scrambling to avoid an electoral wipeout in NSW.

It’s a classic political distraction by the ALP, look, another Unicorn!

Picking fights with Liberal State governments is great fun, futile but fun.

The ALP cannot run on its achievements track record because it doesn’t have one.

JEG has to lift the polls enough to keep her job.

Most of the ALP’s current and future hopes are just about to get wiped off the electoral map.

JEG has to employ tactics of relativism, any issue looking bad for the ALP can be redirected back as “well the ALP might be hopeless but Abbott would be worse”.

The ALP has utterly lost touch with Middle Australia and confirms this by this by going to Middle Australia to tell them. Doh!

Abbott doesn’t need to “win over voters on matters that are really of state concern” because they are Liberal States. Get it?

Abbott doesn’t give a “rats” about JEG picking fights with state governments; in fact he will fan the flames at every opportunity. JEG is too self centered to notice she is helping Abbott.

O’Farrell, like Newman, has a big enough majority to slash and burn at the former ALP state government’s excesses, corruption and economic vandalism and still have tea and biscuits every day.

The QLD ALP now holds cabinet meetings in the back of a mini van with room to spare. The good news for the federal ALP in NSW is they won’t even need a mini van.

I have a few more pages but quite frankly Mr. Opinion, I don’t think you even know what it is you don’t know.

Just sit back, relax and watch the former glory of the ALP flushed down the drain

My dear spindoc,

You paint a dark and dismal picture of the world. (And I think you left a note out between points 8 and 9.)

You polsci adherents have got a multitude of answers for everything but you run the risk of taking a long time to tell us what little you know.

Mr Opinion: You wrote: 'But I do expect a high level of integrity and honesty from those who expect to be renumerated for doing so'. If you expect integrity, you should behave with integrity - and that means not sledging people even if they do not behave as you (and I also) would like them to.

I think sledging and name-calling is a totally ineffective way to get people to improve. If people did that to you, would you change your behaviour? I suspect that, like everyone else, you'd just write your critics off as fools. Challenge the politicians, sure, but do it with integrity and contructively. That's just pragmatism: it's more likelly to have an impact.

By the way, if I'd wanted to be called 'Somby' I would have used that name in the first place. It shouldn't be too difficult to type the first three letters.

PS It's ironic, isn't it, that state Labor governments perceived as useless have been replaced by Liberal/Coalition governments that are quickly also being seen as useless. A portent for the future natioanl government?

Dear Cos-Somby,

Chill out. We all have a real life outside of OLO.

I use satire as a means to enlighten people and to get them thinking about the not-so-obvious things. And I must admit, given the short time I have spent so far on OLO, that it is having an effect.

Mr. Opinion,

I don’t “paint a dark and dismal picture of the world”, nothing to do with the world, I was just answering the question you asked.

Now is the time to tell us if you have a vote in NSW?

You say (sic.) << You polsci adherents have got a multitude of answers for everything but you run the risk of taking a long time to tell us what little you know.>>. Translation please?

Why don’t you learn to speak English before you try to apply it?

This tells us much about what you think you know? Can’t spell, no syntax, no grammar, no English comprehension and no structure. Don’t tell me you’re a teacher?

So to the questions, do you vote in NSW? Which school did you attend? Why did you skip English? What did you smoke when you were missing from school? Did your Mum and Dad know what you were up to? Do you have a job? Do any of your friends have a job? Do you have any friends (no, sorry, you can’t count Facebook contacts)? What do the words “infantile, adolescent, ill informed and Troll have in common? And why can’t you at the very least use spell check to mask your incompetence?

The truth is Mr. Opinion, you don’t have one, opinion that is. You just borrow those of others because you’re not smart enough to have one of your own.

Get off the keyboard and go back to school!