Will he call it tomorrow?

“Anyway, 24 Nov has totally screwed up my plans now …”

Postal vote or pre-poll, and no plans are screwed up. Better than lining up for half an hour a local primary school on election day.

But remember what they say – vote early, and vote often

Hey, I’m in favour of fixed terms as well. But at the moment we don’t have them, and it’s incredibly hypocritical for Rudd to whine about Howard using his ability to time the election to his advantage given that every single government of the past has done the exact same thing.

24 November? Good – let’s get this done.

bd84 – just because that’s the way it’s always been, doesn’t mean we can’t try to change it. I’m in favour of fixed terms so no political advantage can be gained by the incumbent government, and also 4 year terms – they might actually get some decent work done in that time instead of having an election campaign for a third of it.

Anyway, 24 Nov has totally screwed up my plans now …

24 November it is.

His point is that this is how the elections have been called forever, by both parties, and that whinging about it being delayed until it best suits the government or consideration being given to sporting events etc. are at best, silly.

Anyway, he’s seen the G-G – press conference in 10 minutes. Nov 24 is the predicted date.

…and your point is?

Of course he will call it today, it was always going to do it today.. it’s the last possible day to call it before parliament goes back. all this bullsht from labor telling him to call it is a load of crock. The current election calling arrangements have been in place for many years, and it’s not like labor wouldn’t do the exact same thing in the same situation, funny enough they weren’t whinging last election when john did the exact same thing (must be more confident this time).

Then there’s the whingers going on about the election calling taking second place to national sporting events.. it always has. Politics falls behind when it comes to sport in australia. Ever been an election on an AFL grand final saturday? or in january? Only time politics comes up at the same time as sport is when the policy needs to be hidden!

get over it people.. it’s no different to any other election and johnny is more than within his right to name an election date until january. you will still get to vote no matter when the election is.

According to news.com.au he flew into Canberra tonight (Saturday), so it looks like the election will be called tomorrow.

Yes. He’s back in town. His press office arranged last week to get six of the top gallery folks’ mobiles (and their locations) to call Sunday. His press office is disseminating dirt on Labor to the effect there is a hit list of departmental secretaries to get the chop. It’s all fiction, and it’s oh so oh so learily transparent where it’s coming from.

Treating Australian’s with contempt is a great practice. All the best.

I don’t give a toss when the glory hunting gnome calls the election and the best thing about the Wallaby loss last weekend is he won’t get the anticipated Wallaby bounce. I hope the corrupt lying midget loses his seat to Maxine…