Dear Paul,

I've never noticed Labor being in red before.
Perhaps this time it was more obvious because
the people were standing way out in front.
Anyway - I still say - get rid of the red.

The United Australia bloke handing out the
leaflets had a great sense of humour - but I
told him his boss was a crook. He smiled and
said, " Name one pollie who isn't."

He had me there.(smile).

Dear Belly,

There's only one choice in this election.
And, we both know what that is.

One thing that will not be mentioned in the "conversation" by the campaigning politicians is immigration.

Labor gave it's 'compassionate' speil by vowing to lift the refugee intake to 32,000 from the already grossly excessive number of 17,500 some time ago, but it hasn't had the guts or the honesty to mention it as a vote winner during its campaigning.

Neither party wants to talk about immigration; the Coalition is just as dishonest and slimy as Labor. John Howard's "we will decide who comes to this country and by what means" was a complete con; the slogan was a cover for a massive increase in unnecessary legal immigration.

Anyway, Paul Collits Quadrant Online, reckons that politicians of all persuasions do us more harm not by what they do, buy by what they don't do; and elections don't matter much because most of the ideological action occurs outside government. “The culture wars are fought in institutions other than the parliament and, moreover, what goes on in the parliament doesn’t much affect what happens at the various fronts of those wars”.

Non-state actors do more harm to our lives and freedoms than any government. It seems that The runaway success of the cultural Marxist left in transforming our critical institutions to conform to their own visions is such that focusing on parliamentary politics nowadays is pretty much a waste of time.

Hard to argue with that.

Migration has and always will be, something both sides say we need
They, and the facts agree, tell us it is good for our economy
Past migrants did not always find us welcoming
And,unfortunately, the change from integration to multiculturalism,has had an effect
Remain unsure why it was needed
But just look at the history of Pauline Hanson
She launched with an anti Asian slant
Now it is Muslim,but I get a feeling if she could gather support, and cash, by targeting English migrants she would
Nothing can turn Australia in to a monoculture again, even if most wanted it
So this election, at times, feeds the anti migrant/refugee debate, when it remains in our best interests to try living with the country we have

Its been revealed that the Victorian branch of the Liberal Party has been taken over by far right religious fundo nutters, signing up new members from Sunday morning gatherings of happy clappers. This way out extremists religious clique was busy pre-selecting their own candidates and dictating policy on everything from Muslims to Gays, all being unacceptable to the vast majority of voters. Victoria should be a blood bath for the Coalition!

Scott Morrison a happy clapper himself, is from NSW.

Ttbn,

When you mention migration, do you mean refugees ?

When you mention refugees, do you mean migrants ? Legal refugees ? Or illegal refugees ?

Joe