So what is the difference between Liberal and Labor?

poetix said :

To borro somewhat from one John Ono Lennon, ‘what would happen if we held an election and no-one turned up?’

borro….

*sigh*

I thought it was about the donkey vote, but I was too polite to correct the ‘o’.

That is, the first ‘o’. Sigh.

After a while, the amazing privilege of being able to check one’s comments and correct them begins to pale. (But I won’t tell any of the more recent converts.)

And, without converting myself into classroom suck, I thought the article by JB above was chokkas with insight.

(I’m not even after free stuff, as I have War of the Worlds tickets…)

colourful sydney racing identity said :

To borro somewhat from one John Ono Lennon, ‘what would happen if we held an election and no-one turned up?’

borro….

*sigh*

You know if you were a subscriber to this site you could have fixed that before anyone noticed? #smugnewsubscriber

Done.

JB – do I get free stuff now or do I have to start the ‘how to win friends and influence people CSRI style – subscribe to RA’ thread?

To borro somewhat from one John Ono Lennon, ‘what would happen if we held an election and no-one turned up?’

borro….

*sigh*

I thought it was about the donkey vote, but I was too polite to correct the ‘o’.

As I see it we have Labor on one side trying to gloss over 12 years of cost blowouts on public works projects and general financial incompetence, and the Libs trying their darnedest to scare everyone that Labor will send us to the wall with rate rises, while placating with token gestures of improved public amenity.

All I’m interested in is a Government that can focus on improving basic services, manage costs and spend less time aspiring to ideals beyond their grasp.

To borro somewhat from one John Ono Lennon, ‘what would happen if we held an election and no-one turned up?’

borro….

*sigh*

You know if you were a subscriber to this site you could have fixed that before anyone noticed? #smugnewsubscriber

The Libs have rebranded themselves as the new Labor. Not actually hard to do, as Labor appears to have lost the plot, with fractured ideals that no longer speak for the working people. As a former long time Labor voter, I am sorry to say that the Labor party are like ‘children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes’. If only they had just got on with the business of running the joint properly over the last 12 years, people would not be so disgruntled and disaffected.

HenryBG said :

Deref said :

What’s the difference between Laboral and Libour? Bugger all.

Not true.

Labour gets stuff done, but they don’t manage expenditure too well (eg, AMC and Australia’s worst-performing hospital), leading to the blowout in rates.

The Libs get less done, but they are likely to keep costs down for us.

As far as sacking public servants goes – that wouldn’t be an efficient way of doing it – all they have to do is terminate the army of parasites on $100-$400 contracts and consultancies and vastly more money will be saved without losing any jobs.

The whole ‘Labour spends more’ thing is an utter myth, it’s proof of nothing more than the idea that if you keep repeating something often enough then people will start believing it.

Ditto with ‘Libs get less done’. I daresay the only reason the Libs get less stuff done is because they’ve had less time in government (in local terms anyway – on a Federal level it’s because they’re a pack of reactionary conservatives, and reactionary conservatives don’t believe in *doing* things, they’re more interested in stopping things happening because change is scary and immoral).

Deref said :

What’s the difference between Laboral and Libour? Bugger all.

+1 …. oh an Laboral have the little green whingy sister sitting behind them.

Deref said :

What’s the difference between Laboral and Libour? Bugger all.

Not true.

Labour gets stuff done, but they don’t manage expenditure too well (eg, AMC and Australia’s worst-performing hospital), leading to the blowout in rates.

The Libs get less done, but they are likely to keep costs down for us.

As far as sacking public servants goes – that wouldn’t be an efficient way of doing it – all they have to do is terminate the army of parasites on $100-$400 contracts and consultancies and vastly more money will be saved without losing any jobs.

What’s the difference between Laboral and Libour? Bugger all.

Jim Jones said :

A pox on both their houses.

Ergo, a pox on all our houses, as we shall all suffer another four years of these braying nincimpoops. Regardless of who wins.

Jim Jones said :

The big difference between Liberal and Labor is that the Liberal Party is campaigning using a crude fear campaign (rates will triple) and that the Labor party is campaigning using a different crude fear campaign (job cuts in the public service).

A pox on both their houses.

To be fair though, what would you campaign with if you were either of these parties?
Because saying “look at me, I’ll give you this small thing” won’t compare to the other guy saying one of their actual campaigns. The effect is just so much less severe. So given that you would be assuming the other party would be using the big guns, you would be crazy to hold back with yours.

Jim Jones said :

A pox on both their houses.

Looking at some of their candidates, I fear a pox already exists…

The big difference between Liberal and Labor is that the Liberal Party is campaigning using a crude fear campaign (rates will triple) and that the Labor party is campaigning using a different crude fear campaign (job cuts in the public service).

A pox on both their houses.

Maybe I’m not your average Canberra voter, being more realistic than idealistic. But I prefer a govt that will get things done, not make lofty statements and proclamations about how they will make me make my life better, whether I like it or not.

Katy’s lunch box inspectors are less likely to earn my vote than a green wheelie bin. That said, I am disappointed that the Libs haven’t been a little more visionary but I guess they feel they are on safer ground promising basic services rather than stopping waste altogether and ending the scourge of fat kids, who are the root of all society’s evil. (I was an obese child before it became mainstream, does this make me a hipster?)