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END OF DAYS: Greens political party captures WA seat for extreme left
The Fremantle by-election saw some 7802 voters deliver a previously safe Labor seat held by the lamentable former WA Attorney-General Jim McGinty to the Greens political party.
As ever, William Bowe – who has dreadful taste in web hosts – did a fine job in covering the distressing events in detail on the night and previously.
Our informant in Perth reports:
The Fremantle results should be the final nail of reality in the political coffin of former Carpenter advisers Kieran Murphy and Bruce Campbell-Fraser, who ran the Labor campaign.
First the unloseable election, then the unloseable safe seat. Fremantle could be Green for a generation after Saturday… just what WA needs, a carping, irresponsible, self-righteous, left-wing harpie on the cross benches.
Thanks guys your legacy is now secure.
Feral Federal Greens political party leader Senator Bob Brown – believed to be considering retirement – was gloating it up today, declaring that the Greens party will soldier on and take inner-city seats for the extreme left at the 2010 federal election.
They have their eyes on Melbourne, Sydney and the federal seat of Fremantle, currently occupied respectively by Essendon supporter Lindsay Tanner, slightly reformed Palestinian supporter Tanya Plibersek and Lefty darling Melissa Parke who once worked for the United Nations of Surrender Monkeys.
It could be idle boasting.
But with a double dissolution in prospect, the Greens political party could pick up at least six Senators and can only benefit from running a marginal seat style attack on Labor Left strongholds in Melbourne, Freo and Sydney.
The extreme left political party is on the cusp of achieving a double digit level of federal parliamentary representation if Labor doesn’t watch its back. Not since the Communist Party of Australia – armed with vast sums from the Soviet Union – took over significant parts of the trade union movement in the 1940s has the extreme left had such power.
Recent history shows that safe Labor seats like Cunningham have returned from Greens party election wins but our WA sources are fearful that won’t be the case.
The global financial crisis and prospectively out-of-control inflation from the policy response to it must keep Kevin Rudd awake nights up against two Liberal titans in the form of the impressive Malcolm Turnbull and the well-credentialed Peter Costello. But while fighting on his Right over stimulus and hand-outs, he’ll need to keep a vigilant eye on his left.
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I think I’m going to move to New Zealand.
I think it’s wonderful news. First victory for a post-materialist party; first sign in a long time that Australia is not populated entirely by self-serving, mean-spirited right wing hacks.
END OF Bronwyn Pike’s DAYS
The WA Greens are a different Greens to the party of that name in other states.
In the WA upper house it was the Greens who insisted on malapportionment, like the Country Party used to advocate. The WA Greens wanted and got rural eco boundaries, because the ALP were too stupid to realise how mad Dee Margetts is (unlike Kim Carr, of all people, who saw she was unstable and wouldn’t deal with her when she was in the Senate).
The WA Greens supported 6 members for each upper house region, when under pr it is best practice to have an odd number, because Margetts thought this would help her.
The Agricultural Region, with an enrolment much lower than any other region, returned five coalition MLCs out of six, with one ALP and Margetts, serves her right, missed out. As a result the Coalition now has a majority in the WA upper house.
John Lenders was smart in Victoria. He saw to it that all regions had the same number of members and that the number of members, 5, was an odd number. He also saw to it that all regions had an approximately equal enrolment. In WA, thanks to Greens Party madness, the upper house has an apportionment so unequal that the Perth metropolitan regions have about three to four times the enrolment of the conservative Agricultural region.
The WA Greens are not Commos. They are more conservative than the Libs or the Nats. And guess the occupation of one of their local councillors in WA? She’s a psychic!
If Melbourne goes Green, can someone please organise a Berlin-style airlift for me?
I’ll be waiting for the chopper outside the Newmarket Safeway (near the mini-skips).
Our only hope is for Bronwyn’s crew to utilise the power of prayer, and beseech God to smite the green satan.
Small mercy — they can only win Labor seats.
They haven’t given up on Grayndler either.To see King Albo of Marrickville dethroned would give a lot of pleasure to a lot of people including plenty of Labor supporters.
It is about time the Left of the Labor Party woke up and realised that the Greens Political Party are not their friends!
Watch this space Liberals/ Conservatives…
You are next – seriously!!!
http://democrats.org.au/campaigns/democrats_rebuilding_project/
Vote 1 Jake the Snake!
It is about time the Left of the Labor Party woke up and realised that the Greens Political Party are not their friends!
Posted by Anonymous | May 18, 2009, 22:02
Haha the left of the ALP have woken up and realised the Labor Party is not their friend. And left leaning ALP voters have also woken up and realised that the ALP is not worth voting for and switched that vote to the Greens. This is what you get for completely disenfranchising a large group of voters. This is what the ‘left’ of the ALP have got for allowing themselves to be coopted by the revolting right faction. Bye bye Lindsay, you won’t be missed.
The ALP is a right wing party and so is the Greens. All you so-called lefties are full of hot cock. If you want to join a true ieft wing party, join the communist party. Fuckwits.
Oh Puh….lease. You are right on the money. The dominance of the Right in the ALP has left many on the Left in the ALP totally disenfranchised. Many have voted Green in the Senate for years. When the Greens are a real chance in a lower house seat the Libs will lie doggoe or not run at all. The combined vote of the Greens, disenfranchised Labor and politically smart Libs is a danngerous mixture that will continue to cost seats, leaving a rump of a Labor party. The Arbib’s and Shortens of this world should hang there heads in shame.
hello Kim Carr (otherwise known as Kim ll-carr)runs the labor party in Victoria – not the right.
Kim has decimated the right. The Greens ought to come back to the Labor party and bolster the left position even further.