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Nov. 8th, 2002 06:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hnpccAnother bloody election.
Why the bastards couldn't have left it until it was due (some time next year) I don't know.
But no. We have an election on Nov 30th, which means that all we're going to get for the next 3 weeks is politics, politics, politics.
And the saddest thing? I don't care who wins this one. Both major parties are almost indistinguishable. Neither are mentioning train lines to Monash. One is led by a Jeff wannabee. One is led by someone no one can remember the name of offhand. The Dems are in disarray, still. I think the Greens may clean up a few seats this time...
The other reason it irritates me is that I live in one of the safest Labour seats in the state. The last time either our federal or state seats changed was after Bob Hawke resigned as PM, and then it went to a pro-Labour independent. (Labour promptly spent $80,000 at the next election to unseat him, and lost all of Queensland and the election.)
The only time I hear from my MP is three weeks before an election. The rest of the three years he may as well be conga dancing for all I know. (Actually the only other time I did hear about him was when the Hun did a report on upgrades MPs had had done to their govt-provided cars. He came in most expensive - those mags are not cheap. Given that he lives near me and absolutely no one has any idea what he looks like when it's not an election time you think he could take the tram to work...)
I don't want the Liberals back in. I don't want Labour back in. I don't want the Democrats back in until they stop acting like the other two major parties. The Nationals are as relevant as the Democrats. The Greens, Shooters, Oms, and the other so small they're not even minor parties would be fun but probably not that practical.
All I want is a government that can operate by consensus agreement rather than bickering, that can avoid party lines and factional politics and general just arseholedness in parliament.
And that will build me a bloody train line to Monash.
For the first time ever I'm considering donkey voting. *sigh*
Why the bastards couldn't have left it until it was due (some time next year) I don't know.
But no. We have an election on Nov 30th, which means that all we're going to get for the next 3 weeks is politics, politics, politics.
And the saddest thing? I don't care who wins this one. Both major parties are almost indistinguishable. Neither are mentioning train lines to Monash. One is led by a Jeff wannabee. One is led by someone no one can remember the name of offhand. The Dems are in disarray, still. I think the Greens may clean up a few seats this time...
The other reason it irritates me is that I live in one of the safest Labour seats in the state. The last time either our federal or state seats changed was after Bob Hawke resigned as PM, and then it went to a pro-Labour independent. (Labour promptly spent $80,000 at the next election to unseat him, and lost all of Queensland and the election.)
The only time I hear from my MP is three weeks before an election. The rest of the three years he may as well be conga dancing for all I know. (Actually the only other time I did hear about him was when the Hun did a report on upgrades MPs had had done to their govt-provided cars. He came in most expensive - those mags are not cheap. Given that he lives near me and absolutely no one has any idea what he looks like when it's not an election time you think he could take the tram to work...)
I don't want the Liberals back in. I don't want Labour back in. I don't want the Democrats back in until they stop acting like the other two major parties. The Nationals are as relevant as the Democrats. The Greens, Shooters, Oms, and the other so small they're not even minor parties would be fun but probably not that practical.
All I want is a government that can operate by consensus agreement rather than bickering, that can avoid party lines and factional politics and general just arseholedness in parliament.
And that will build me a bloody train line to Monash.
For the first time ever I'm considering donkey voting. *sigh*
