SM,

You need to lighten up - and realise when people
are being facetious and having a go at your regular
silly accusations and consistent blind-eye view
of your side of politics - which can do no wrong
apparently but are so quick to blame everyone
else and when caught up they always seem to have
a "good" excuse which their supporters (like
yourself) buy hook, line, and sinker.

Of course most people don't support corruption (union or
any other) however we do have police and other agencies
well equipped to handle these matters at a fraction of
the cost of what the Royal Commission's going to cost.
And as even you must realise - this entire issue is not
about corrpution at all - its a political strategy.

You're the silly gullible one here.

Foxy,

It is difficult to tell when you are pretending to be dumb. As for being one eyed, you take 1st prize. I have yet to see you take anything other than the Labor left party line.

What is blindingly obvious is that if we have "police and other agencies well equipped to handle these matters" that they are failing spectacularly, and Labor's call to use the same structures is essentially a call to do nothing.

The Cole royal commission clearly established the need for the BCC, which reduced the thuggery drastically. Electricity Bill (ex union heavy weight) got rid of the BCC with the predictable result that the thuggery and corruption started up again.

SM,

I may be one-eyed in some respects (I prefer substance
over rhetoric) but at least
I'm not so narrow-minded that I am can
look through key-holes with both eyes
like you do. And I have criticised the Labor Party
in the past which is more than you've ever done
with the Libs.

As for my supposed support of
Labor? Well, look at the alternative on offer
currently?

I would love to support the Libs - when
and if they actually come up with policies that
make sense. But of course, that may take quite a few
years for them to not only attract the right people to their
party but to also be willing to promote them and give them
a chance to shine, instead of rewarding loyalty with the
same old party hacks.
The ones they currently have - have nothing
new to offer.

Now our state parliamentarians are a difference
kettle of fish. I like our state Premier - Denis Napthine
very much. I love Melbourne's Mayor - Robert Doyle.
And I love my local MP - (Liberal - female, who works
very hard for us). So, I'm not as one-eyed as you think.
I do give credit where credit is due, but I don't where
it's not deserved or earned.

As for the Royal Cole Commission. We've argued about this
in the past - and it spent over $60 million and not one
single charge was laid. So my argument still stands.
This is not about corruption - it's a tactical strategy
on behalf of Mr Abbott and Co.

Foxy, the jokes on SM, In my case, the last time I ran in the Local Government elections I gave my 2nd preference to the "Independent" Liberal candidate, the more progressive thinking person, a fully paid up member of the Liberal Party, and he didn't make any secret of it, over the Labor bloke, naturally he returned the complement . Greens have done many a deal with the Liberal Party at local level.

There must be many Labor supporters who would be exasperated by Labor always giving their preferences to the Greens, while the Greens show their scorn by preferencing Socialist Alliance and others of that ilk where available. Or playing other silly games, such as putting up multiple candidates who find difficulty getting a baker's dozen votes. - Could have done a bit better but not all of their extended family voted for them.

It must be the sworn duty of the treacherous Greens to cut the ground out from under Labor candidates' feet. As Gillard found federally, the Greens are even worse when in parliament and as partners.

That just underlines the very point I was making earlier that the Greens cannot be put into the basket with small parties.

The Greens are just a protest party, they are the crazy, cynical Watermelons their own warring factions say they are, and as Julia Gillard and others have wryly observed through sad experience of trying to work with them.