Ex-PM Paul Keating says that the Greens have no claims to be green. He says they are Trots who troll the major parties in the Senate.

Ex-PM Gillard would agree with him. The always treacherous, headline grabbing, credit-taking Greens scuttled her chances, but Abbott was always given the credit for unseating her.

Most mature voters would admit that the Greens only demonstrate an interest in the environment at election time. After that, the lazy Greens just grandstand and are disruptive, wasting costly Parliamentary hours, days and sessions.

Keating,

<Greens self-serving Trots: ex-PM Keating
JUNE 25, 2016

Former prime minister Paul Keating has used a Labor rally to turn his caustic wit on the Greens Party, labelling it "a bunch of opportunists and Trots" splitting the progressive vote.['Progressive' - the necessary euphemism for International Socialism, which the Australian electorate rejects]

In his first public address of the 2016 election campaign, Mr Keating told the Sydney crowd the Greens were reducing Labor's ability to form government.
"They're a protest party, not a party of government, but their game is to nobble the party of government that can actually make changes," Mr Keating said.
"You can't be a government when you've got a bunch tearing away at you, trying to pinch a seat here and there, all to make themselves look important."
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"They purloined the name Greens. We're more green than they are," he said".>

That doesn't bode well for another hung Parliament.

Opportunists Trots or Time-Wasting Trolls, that the media and particularly the ABC do not hold to account? Or misunderstood?

Getting nervous are you Beach? As one old dinosaur with his antique clocks and gucci suits tries to hold the fort for that other Labor looser Albanese in Grayndler, where the Greens candidate Jim Casey has a fair chance of winning the seat.
Keating took his snout out of the public trough just long enough to try and stick it up the Greens, not that anyone outside the ALP cares what Keating thinks anyway. What's more important is Keating trying to give an endorsement for Albanese to stab Shorten, after Shorten gets thumped next Saturday. Assuming of course that Shorten does get thumped and Albo is still there.

Beach, things are looking desperate for your gal Pauline and One Nation in Queensland. What does dinosaur Keating think of your party up there. Not that I care, i'm more concerned with helping The Greens get two up in the Senate in NSW than any grubby comments from Keating.

Keep up the goading Onthebeach, the arrogance that pours our of Paul's posts will remind everyone that this is one of the prime characteristics of the greens.

Good to have it poured out here, where many will read it. Should stop many who may be thinking of parking a vote there, when the main parties have such hopeless leaders.

It must be a real problem for the Greens, despising the very people they have to attract to vote for them, if they want people elected.

Keating, spot on as always.

Greens are dags on the fly-blown backside of the Labor Party. I can only hope the electorate sees this clearly and votes Labor or Liberal.

//not that anyone outside the ALP cares what Keating thinks anyway.//

Well that's not true. Beach obviously cares a great deal for the opinions of International Socialists like ex-Labor leaders, at least when they're criticising the Greens. Probably not so much when they're criticising the Liberals. Or indeed any time when they're not criticising the Greens.

//What's more important is Keating trying to give an endorsement for Albanese to stab Shorten, after Shorten gets thumped next Saturday.//

Oh for heaven's sake, this isn't Game of Thrones. Although a few more tits would definitely spice up the campaign ;)

But nobody is getting stabbed, thumped, raked over the coals, tarred, feathered, hanged, drawn or quartered.

One party will lose by a narrow margin and the other party will win by a narrow margin. Thus speaketh the soothsayer Toni.

And you can all suck my cock (or 'man-fowl' in the Old Tongue) if I'm wrong. Thus further speaketh the soothsayer Toni.

Hassy, you can stop sitting on the fence now, and cast your vote for the ratbag right party of your choice.
"the arrogance that pours out" you would know Hassy being a past master.

Luciferase, "Greens are dags on the fly-blown backside of the Labor Party" Thanks for the complement I'll keep it in mind. If you ever even just contemplate voting Green please let me know, because that's the day I resign, obviously by then the party has attracted such obnoxious degenerates no self respecting person would want to be associated with a party of reprobates.

"One party will lose by a narrow margin and the other party will win by a narrow margin" Toni I think you are right. I think that loser will be Labor, now that Chicken Little Turnbull is on winner by running around telling everyone "the sky is falling" in the form of GB and Europe.
"But nobody is getting stabbed, thumped, raked over the coals, tarred, feathered, hanged, drawn or quartered." Are you saying its a quite day in Canberra.
Keating has made more enemies in politics than anyone, and most of them are in the Labor Party, just ask Bob Hawke.

Ex Liberal leader John Hewson addressed 2000 people at a Greens organised rally yesterday in Sydney just down the road from Turnbull's joint, on 'Climate Change'. Hewson accused the Coalition of being a "national disgrace" on the subject. What do you make of that? Once wanted to be a Liberal PM no less.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jun/26/climate-change-john-hewson-accuses-coalition-of-national-disgrace