7 September 2012

A 7 point policy platform from the Motorists

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After yesterday’s little flurry from the Motorists we have a 7 point policy platform:

AMP PLATFORM – POINTS OF PRIMARY IMPORTANCE

1. Community Issues. To include – health, education and training. Housing and aged care. Community involvement. City maintenance.

2. The ACT Justice System. To include – Law and order. Court reforms. Youth at risk programs. Review of penalties and deterrents. Prison reform.

3. Motoring. To include – Public transport. Fuel policy. Motorsport and other enthusiast activities.

4. Small Business. Set-up incentives. Reduction of Govt. red tape. Employment laws. Risk management and other compliance issues. Land tax impediments.

5. Tourism. To include – Whatever it takes to make Canberra an attractive place to visit, to stay in and to generate a positive memory.

6. Entertainment, sport, recreation and the Arts.

7. Public Sector. To include – Local governance. Relationships with the Federal Government. Emergency Services. Public service relationship with the community.

Glad we’ve cleared that up!

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I would like to see $50 million go to the ring road at the arboretum.

It needs bigger run off areas, sand traps and tire walls, pit area, grand stands, flag marshal points and the road widened so we can host V8 Supercars. The track has been tested at night and in it’s current condition can only hold speeds of around 185kp/h .

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd8:33 am 11 Sep 12

Motoristparty said :

I don’t mind being called a redneck as there are only two. There are red necks and yellow necks and I would hate to be one of you the gutless yellow necks. You haven’t got the balls to be tough on anyone, its all free and easy, everyone can do what they like until it impacts on you then you cry and ring the cops. You never put your hand up and have a go. You just sit there behind your keyboards inside your miserable little lives achieving nothing and tapping out self righteous crap. Anyway one day you might find a friend and your lonely little world might come to an end. It will be necessary for you to wear a scarf at all times because your one friend you found in life wont be around long once he spots your yellow neck.

haha redneck bogan interwebs tough guy.

Normally i would say probably a fake identity, but considering the type of peeps involved, im sure you are one of the heads of motorist party.

colourful sydney racing identity8:24 am 11 Sep 12

Motoristparty said :

I don’t mind being called a redneck as there are only two. There are red necks and yellow necks and I would hate to be one of you the gutless yellow necks. You haven’t got the balls to be tough on anyone, its all free and easy, everyone can do what they like until it impacts on you then you cry and ring the cops. You never put your hand up and have a go. You just sit there behind your keyboards inside your miserable little lives achieving nothing and tapping out self righteous crap. Anyway one day you might find a friend and your lonely little world might come to an end. It will be necessary for you to wear a scarf at all times because your one friend you found in life wont be around long once he spots your yellow neck.

You do realise that the term ‘yellowneck’ was coined for soldiers who deserted the racist confederate army? Something to be proud of methinks.

colourful sydney racing identity7:36 am 11 Sep 12

Motoristparty said :

I don’t mind being called a redneck as there are only two. There are red necks and yellow necks and I would hate to be one of you the gutless yellow necks. You haven’t got the balls to be tough on anyone, its all free and easy, everyone can do what they like until it impacts on you then you cry and ring the cops. You never put your hand up and have a go. You just sit there behind your keyboards inside your miserable little lives achieving nothing and tapping out self righteous crap. Anyway one day you might find a friend and your lonely little world might come to an end. It will be necessary for you to wear a scarf at all times because your one friend you found in life wont be around long once he spots your yellow neck.

and that sums you up…

Motoristparty said :

I don’t mind being called a redneck as there are only two. There are red necks and yellow necks and I would hate to be one of you the gutless yellow necks. You haven’t got the balls to be tough on anyone, its all free and easy, everyone can do what they like until it impacts on you then you cry and ring the cops. You never put your hand up and have a go. You just sit there behind your keyboards inside your miserable little lives achieving nothing and tapping out self righteous crap. Anyway one day you might find a friend and your lonely little world might come to an end. It will be necessary for you to wear a scarf at all times because your one friend you found in life wont be around long once he spots your yellow neck.

oh dear. Just when you think that it might be just a prejudice confirmation comes along

Motoristparty12:17 am 11 Sep 12

I don’t mind being called a redneck as there are only two. There are red necks and yellow necks and I would hate to be one of you the gutless yellow necks. You haven’t got the balls to be tough on anyone, its all free and easy, everyone can do what they like until it impacts on you then you cry and ring the cops. You never put your hand up and have a go. You just sit there behind your keyboards inside your miserable little lives achieving nothing and tapping out self righteous crap. Anyway one day you might find a friend and your lonely little world might come to an end. It will be necessary for you to wear a scarf at all times because your one friend you found in life wont be around long once he spots your yellow neck.

Good on em for having a go

The Motorist Party seems to be just as bad as The Greens. It’s ironic how those with Motorist Party stickers seem to be some of the worst drivers. I’ll be sticking with one of the main parties.

From the Canberra Time article:

”We need to get rid of the United Nations provisions there and make the jail run like a proper prison.”

Oh, thank goodness. Those pesky human rights. Let’s get back to the gulags we were meant to have!

They may not have an idea how to win votes, but there gotta be better blokes than that poor excuse “gimme till 6 weeks before an election to come up with policy Liberal Party” . At least there having a crack compared to you bunch of keyboard I can do better warriors.

Maybe if they wrote their aims and policy in actual sentence form we could understand what they’re on about.

Australian Motorist Party to Muslims

“go back where you came from………. and park there”

F**king hillbillies

The AMP has a grand total of three policies published on their website ( http://amp.org.au/policies/ ):
Law and Order
Business
Plastic Bags

Obviously a very serious party, considering their apparent focus (Motorists) hasn’t been addressed in a policy yet.

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd7:51 pm 07 Sep 12

Jim Jones said :

Alright, I’ll have a go:

1. Khe Sanh to be the new anthem
2. More Southern Cross Tattoos on the flag
3. Bicyclists should have to pay rego
4. Free Schapelle Corby
5. No more ‘nanny state’ crap, this whole ‘speed limit’ thing is total bullsh1t mate I’m a f#cking good driver and I’ll bash you if you reckon I’m not
6. No fat chicks
7. Lower it and whack some fats on and chuck in a subwoofer and a flashy stereo and NOW we’ve got a grouse white Commodore

This is called totally winning

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd7:51 pm 07 Sep 12

colourful sydney racing identity said :

rhino said :

But if you were to outline 7 policies for an independent party of your own, what would they be? Feel free to keep it short and to the point.

Ok Chic, I’ll play*
If elected, I will introduce legislation into the Assembly that will:
1) Send out intelligence agents around the world to wipe the ACT off published maps, thus ensuring that no-one could invade.
2) Abolish money in the Territory and replace it with chocolate fish or sand as legal tender.
3) Create giant space-mirrors to melt the polar icecaps and destroy all of the foolish greed-worshipping cities of man in one stroke, thereby returning man to the sea, which he should never have left in the first place.
4) Lead to full employment through slavery.
5) Raise the school leaving-age to sixty-five.
6) Restrict the vote to minors: i.e., ONLY those under 18 years of age could vote.
7) Mandate homosexuality for 33 per cent of the population.
*plagiarise

This is called winning

Hmm haven’t the Motorist Party copped a jolly good bollocking.I guess there’s not much chance that they’ll become members of RA anytime soon?

Jim Jones said :

FioBla said :

More on the Motorist Party:

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/motorists-party-takes-hard-line-on-crime-20120906-25hil.html

Classic! They’re opposed to the mosque in Gunghalin because of … traffic.

BWA AHA HAHAH AHAHAHAHAHAHAH AHA HA HA HAH AHA HAHA HA

Shhhhhh. Don’t confuse them with irony.

FioBla said :

More on the Motorist Party:

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/motorists-party-takes-hard-line-on-crime-20120906-25hil.html

Classic! They’re opposed to the mosque in Gunghalin because of … traffic.

BWA AHA HAHAH AHAHAHAHAHAHAH AHA HA HA HAH AHA HAHA HA

colourful sydney racing identity said :

if I were running for office (which I will only do when I get another 98 people to join the ‘Sharks with fricking laser beams on their heads for Canberra party’) I would get a literate friend to proof read my website.

Ah yes, there’s the problem. You have to have a literate friend.

Saying ‘health’ or ‘education’ is not a healthcare or education policy.

It’s just saying ‘health’ or ‘education’.

At least I know who gets the last vote on my paper.

wildturkeycanoe4:52 pm 07 Sep 12

Well, as far as I can see, they are interested in everything, but I don’t know what they intend to do to change anything.
Their website policies are three tiered – Law n order, business and plastic bags.
Then there’s a bit about driver training which is a good one, might make our roads a bit safer [in another 40 years when the current driving population either dies or gets their license taken away, then the newly trained safe drivers will rule the roads]. As for points 1,5,6 & 7, I just don’t know what they intend to achieve.
The POPI advert just doesn’t say much at all about where they stand on any issues at all, it’s just a load of POPIcock in my opinion.

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd4:35 pm 07 Sep 12

Deref said :

More details in this morning’s Crimes. I see that one of their candidates once stood for One Nation. Completely unsurprising of course.

They should just call themselves the Redneck Bogan Party – it’d cover their bases much better.

Quoted for truth

Alright, I’ll have a go:

1. Khe Sanh to be the new anthem
2. More Southern Cross Tattoos on the flag
3. Bicyclists should have to pay rego
4. Free Schapelle Corby
5. No more ‘nanny state’ crap, this whole ‘speed limit’ thing is total bullsh1t mate I’m a f#cking good driver and I’ll bash you if you reckon I’m not
6. No fat chicks
7. Lower it and whack some fats on and chuck in a subwoofer and a flashy stereo and NOW we’ve got a grouse white Commodore

colourful sydney racing identity4:20 pm 07 Sep 12

rhino said :

But if you were to outline 7 policies for an independent party of your own, what would they be? Feel free to keep it short and to the point.

Ok Chic, I’ll play*
If elected, I will introduce legislation into the Assembly that will:
1) Send out intelligence agents around the world to wipe the ACT off published maps, thus ensuring that no-one could invade.
2) Abolish money in the Territory and replace it with chocolate fish or sand as legal tender.
3) Create giant space-mirrors to melt the polar icecaps and destroy all of the foolish greed-worshipping cities of man in one stroke, thereby returning man to the sea, which he should never have left in the first place.
4) Lead to full employment through slavery.
5) Raise the school leaving-age to sixty-five.
6) Restrict the vote to minors: i.e., ONLY those under 18 years of age could vote.
7) Mandate homosexuality for 33 per cent of the population.
*plagiarise

rhino said :

Jim Jones said :

rhino said :

But if you were to outline 7 policies for an independent party of your own, what would they be? Feel free to keep it short and to the point.

these aren’t ‘policies’. what, anyway, is a ‘point of primary importance’??

policies should give some indication of what position the party will adopt on given issues. this is a bucket list of issues, but with no positions; it’s simply left for us to assume they are redneck bogans and what positions they will adopt for them all. so far, we’ve pretty well nailed it.

did they do the lego challenge?

rhino said :

It seems like they are now trying to be taken more seriously by outlining a bit of everything.

That’s their attempt to be ‘taken more seriously’? Really?

That’s not ‘outlining a bit of everything’, it’s ‘mentioning things’. No context, no ideas or policies. I’m amazed that their seven points weren’t a little pithier:

1. Burnouts
2. Boobs
3. Bacon
4. Beer
5. Bourbon
6. BBQ
7. Beef

Honestly, that’s better than the rubbish that they’ve come up with (or that a literate toddler they know of managed to scrawl for them with crayon and butcher’s paper)

rhino said :

But if you were to outline 7 policies for an independent party of your own, what would they be? Feel free to keep it short and to the point.

1. I’m not the one running in an election.
2-7. See above

colourful sydney racing identity said :

rhino said :

What’s a moider?

I’ll moider da bum!

Jim Jones said :

rhino said :

It’s easy to critisize, but what would your policy platform read like, given that you have just as much access to resources as these guys do. It isn’t like the major parties who have teams of people to construct these things. Anyone willing to give us a sample of what your main policies you’d run with would sound like?

Gimme a break.

Anyone with a functioning brain and a spare 30 minutes could come up with something better than ‘ME LIKE DRIVE CARS FAST’ and a couple of dot points of ‘STUFF WHAT WE RECKN IS GUD’.

Lol fail troll. Where does it mention driving cars fast…it barely even mentions transportation, which I think is a bad thing, but I remember last time it was basically just transport policies and nobody voted for them because they either thought as you do or they thought “those policies might sound good for the road, but I’m sure they’d be rubbish for every other kind of policy” which was a reasonable assumption given that they hadn’t mentioned anything else at all. It seems like they are now trying to be taken more seriously by outlining a bit of everything.

But if you were to outline 7 policies for an independent party of your own, what would they be? Feel free to keep it short and to the point.

colourful sydney racing identity said :

rhino said :

What’s a moider?

lol what. Is that meant to be a Boston accent?

Rollersk8r said :

Wait – they’re The Motorist Party – and motoring stuff is priority no.3??

Of course it is, these people are a bit like Hinckley – too right for the far right.
A bunch of mentally impaired fascists.

To give them their fare credit, the website never says anything about “policy”, just “points of interest”.

Still, they could have saved us all some time by having a 1-point list:

1. Make stuff better.

colourful sydney racing identity3:22 pm 07 Sep 12

rhino said :

It’s easy to critisize, but what would your policy platform read like, given that you have just as much access to resources as these guys do. It isn’t like the major parties who have teams of people to construct these things. Anyone willing to give us a sample of what your main policies you’d run with would sound like?

Well, for a start, if I were running for office (which I will only do when I get another 98 people to join the ‘Sharks with fricking laser beams on their heads for Canberra party’) I would get a literate friend to proof read my website. If I was in the position of the members of the ‘watch out Muslim drivers’ party (see Canberra Times) and had no literate friends, I would probably use the spell check function on my computer.

colourful sydney racing identity3:16 pm 07 Sep 12

Jim Jones said :

rhino said :

It’s easy to critisize, but what would your policy platform read like, given that you have just as much access to resources as these guys do. It isn’t like the major parties who have teams of people to construct these things. Anyone willing to give us a sample of what your main policies you’d run with would sound like?

Gimme a break.

Anyone with a functioning brain and a spare 30 minutes could come up with something better than ‘ME LIKE DRIVE CARS FAST’ and a couple of dot points of ‘STUFF WHAT WE RECKN IS GUD’.

you forgot point 9 ‘GET OUT OF MY WAY, I’M A MOTORIST’

colourful sydney racing identity3:15 pm 07 Sep 12

rhino said :

What’s a moider?

rhino said :

It’s easy to critisize, but what would your policy platform read like, given that you have just as much access to resources as these guys do. It isn’t like the major parties who have teams of people to construct these things. Anyone willing to give us a sample of what your main policies you’d run with would sound like?

Gimme a break.

Anyone with a functioning brain and a spare 30 minutes could come up with something better than ‘ME LIKE DRIVE CARS FAST’ and a couple of dot points of ‘STUFF WHAT WE RECKN IS GUD’.

colourful sydney racing identity3:07 pm 07 Sep 12

well, after perusing their website I certainly know who will be last on my ballot paper. Frightening.

Wait – they’re The Motorist Party – and motoring stuff is priority no.3??

colourful sydney racing identity2:48 pm 07 Sep 12

Deref said :

More details in this morning’s Crimes. I see that one of their candidates once stood for One Nation. Completely unsurprising of course.

They should just call themselves the Redneck Bogan Party – it’d cover their bases much better.

‘former One Nation member and party spokesman Burl Doble’ cat has been belled.

It’s easy to critisize, but what would your policy platform read like, given that you have just as much access to resources as these guys do. It isn’t like the major parties who have teams of people to construct these things. Anyone willing to give us a sample of what your main policies you’d run with would sound like?

colourful sydney racing identity said :

rhino said :

I for one reckon they don’t sound that bad. I quite like the idea of someone other than the 2 mainstream parties having a place in the assembly. The greens are good in this way because they interrupt the bipartisan debate and throw some other perspectives and issues and debates into the mix. The only problem with the greens is that their greeny agenda usually is the opposite of what I want done. Although they have had some sensible policies lately and seem to be doing their homework more and being more realistic.

If they take down speed cameras and introduce proper driver training requirements, that’d be a decent improvement. When you think about it, most of the general day to day operations will run the same regardless of the government, as it is run by the public servants. So it’s just the different ideas that make the difference. They aren’t druggo bogans, as some believe. I saw them meeting once and they looked like regular joes to me. I like that they are being political and trying to make a difference.

Thanks for your input Chic.

You’re welcome. But Chic? Am I behind the times on the lingo or something? What does Chic refer to?

Deref said :

More details in this morning’s Crimes. I see that one of their candidates once stood for One Nation. Completely unsurprising of course.

They’ll always be One Nation On Wheels to me (TM whoever here came up with it at the last election).

More details in this morning’s Crimes. I see that one of their candidates once stood for One Nation. Completely unsurprising of course.

They should just call themselves the Redneck Bogan Party – it’d cover their bases much better.

colourful sydney racing identity2:10 pm 07 Sep 12

rhino said :

I for one reckon they don’t sound that bad. I quite like the idea of someone other than the 2 mainstream parties having a place in the assembly. The greens are good in this way because they interrupt the bipartisan debate and throw some other perspectives and issues and debates into the mix. The only problem with the greens is that their greeny agenda usually is the opposite of what I want done. Although they have had some sensible policies lately and seem to be doing their homework more and being more realistic.

If they take down speed cameras and introduce proper driver training requirements, that’d be a decent improvement. When you think about it, most of the general day to day operations will run the same regardless of the government, as it is run by the public servants. So it’s just the different ideas that make the difference. They aren’t druggo bogans, as some believe. I saw them meeting once and they looked like regular joes to me. I like that they are being political and trying to make a difference.

Thanks for your input Chic.

rhino said :

I for one reckon they don’t sound that bad.

You can’t be serious! 😀 I mean, sure I agree that it’s good to get some diversity on the ballot paper but this brief was obviously composed by an ape with attention deficit disorder.

astrojax said :

do they have a platform on trains?

At the train stations they do.

do they have a platform on trains?

I for one reckon they don’t sound that bad. I quite like the idea of someone other than the 2 mainstream parties having a place in the assembly. The greens are good in this way because they interrupt the bipartisan debate and throw some other perspectives and issues and debates into the mix. The only problem with the greens is that their greeny agenda usually is the opposite of what I want done. Although they have had some sensible policies lately and seem to be doing their homework more and being more realistic.

If they take down speed cameras and introduce proper driver training requirements, that’d be a decent improvement. When you think about it, most of the general day to day operations will run the same regardless of the government, as it is run by the public servants. So it’s just the different ideas that make the difference. They aren’t druggo bogans, as some believe. I saw them meeting once and they looked like regular joes to me. I like that they are being political and trying to make a difference.

In summing up, it’s the Constitution, it’s motorsport, it’s justice, it’s law, it’s the vibe, and, uh … No,? that’s it. It’s the vibe.

colourful sydney racing identity12:01 pm 07 Sep 12

Very Busy said :

colourful sydney racing identity said :

I thought the Liberals were the laziest, most incompetent party in this town, wow.

That’s an interesting comment from a “fair and balanced, neutral political observer”

Your agenda hasn’t got past me!!!!!!

*clap, clap* nice work sherlock, your powers of deduction astound me.
The thing that amazes me is that I was able to type that with a straight face. That and that no one call d me on it.

colourful sydney racing identity said :

I thought the Liberals were the laziest, most incompetent party in this town, wow.

That’s an interesting comment from a “fair and balanced, neutral political observer”

Your agenda hasn’t got past me!!!!!!

Maybe it should read ” 1 fix roads n stuff 2 – make sure kiddies are learning yeah. 3 everyone off the road at 530 fix that traffic prob. 4 paint the town red for tourism yeah?”

And so on you get the drift (pun) points are far to generalised , however what more can we expect from Chick “show us ya “ henry

colourful sydney racing identity said :

I thought the Liberals were the laziest, most incompetent party in this town, wow.

Boy, I should start my own party. It appears to be pretty easy.

colourful sydney racing identity11:45 am 07 Sep 12

I thought the Liberals were the laziest, most incompetent party in this town, wow.

I’m guessing most of the meeting was Burl trying to get Chic to shave his head and put on the matching shirt.

Once last orders were called in the bar they got down to nutting these bad boys out.

Are they for or against these things?

colourful sydney racing identity11:38 am 07 Sep 12

Employment laws for small businesses? So they are going to override Commonwealth legislation, what an interesting idea.

morons.

It is said that “The Devil is in the details”, but there’s a whole world of ancient evil in a sentence that’s just “Employment laws.”

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