WA State Election Looming

[wayneL]

@wayneL While I was waiting for She Who is Never Wrong at the voting center this morning I was rabbiting onto a few bystanders doing the same, waiting, and all seemed pretty sure that Labour would romp in.
Perhaps the remnants of the Lib/Nat will be near to history.
Next Saturday will be interesting.

That won't be good, but probably inevitable. I just hope enough minors get up in the council.

 

[qldfrog]

That won't be good, but probably inevitable. I just hope enough minors get up in the council.

When i see Labor i know economic disaster, immigration and vote buying, wef plan and nation destroying.
20,y of previous experience in Europe and now results here
Which is usually not even challenged, but the great counter argument is but the LNP..
LNP is bad but disorganised, ALP is systematic and the route to gloom and purposed destruction of the country.
I know who to put last, after nothing will change anyway with mandatory voting and dual party system

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

Seemingly the Premier of WA called JD Vance " a knob."

WA Premier denies calling JD Vance a 'knob' will impact AUKUS

WA Premier Roger Cook says his depiction of US Vice-President JD Vance as a "knob" was a lighthearted comment not meant to cause offence.

www.abc.net.au

gg

 

[wayneL]

Seemingly the Premier of WA called JD Vance " a knob."

WA Premier denies calling JD Vance a 'knob' will impact AUKUS

WA Premier Roger Cook says his depiction of US Vice-President JD Vance as a "knob" was a lighthearted comment not meant to cause offence.

www.abc.net.au

gg

Astonishingly petty and juvenile, in keeping with the majority of the left.

Most unbecoming of a political leader.

 

[wayneL]

It seems to be Trump's superpower, to bring out the petty, kindergarten, name calling tw@t in globalist politicians.

Cook
Rudd
Albo
Turdbull
Starmer
Macron
etc etc etc

Even Vlod, who couldn't refrain from preschool idiocy following having a new one ripped.

It is extremely unedifying of themselves, childish, and embarrassing for their mature constituents (all except juvenile leftists).

 

[Knobby22]

Seemingly the Premier of WA called JD Vance " a knob."

WA Premier denies calling JD Vance a 'knob' will impact AUKUS

WA Premier Roger Cook says his depiction of US Vice-President JD Vance as a "knob" was a lighthearted comment not meant to cause offence.

www.abc.net.au

gg

Vance can dish it out. I am sure being called an unpleasant man in Australian slang by a provincial leader of a minor State of a relatively unimportant Nation won't stop him sleeping at night.

 

[wayneL]

It was a given that it would be a cakewalk for Labor in the LA, but it's disappointing some of the freedom candidates didn't get up in the LC, only Rod Caddies from ON (a neighbour/acquaintance).

Libertarians were a dismal failure.

So as Labor and Greens will also control the the upper house, there seems to be a debate whether they will be sworn in on Das Kapital or Nineteeneightyfour.

 

[moXJO]

It was a given that it would be a cakewalk for Labor in the LA, but it's disappointing some of the freedom candidates didn't get up in the LC, only Rod Caddies from ON (a neighbour/acquaintance).

Libertarians were a dismal failure.

So as Labor and Greens will also control the the upper house, there seems to be a debate whether they will be sworn in on Das Kapital or Nineteeneightyfour.

WA isn't going through enough pain to change imo. I mean the state has to basically fall over before the opposition party gets voted in. It would have to get really bad for independents to grab a hold.

Also twitter isn't enough. If they want to grab votes they'd have to put roots down. Things like neighbourhood watch (a lot on Facebook now)or something that are springing up everywhere. Then you would have voting blocks in the local areas of disenfranchised voters. There's a real world crossover.

There's too much of a shotgun approach.

 

[Ferret]

Libertarians were a dismal failure.

They won't get any real traction unless they move more to the centre.

Policies like the right to own guns for self defence are a red flag to most Australians.

 

[wayneL]

They won't get any real traction unless they move more to the centre.

Policies like the right to own guns for self defence are a red flag to most Australians.

Yes I do agree that that is going to be a deal breaker for most. I have been banging on about that for ages that they should quietly drop that. I think their policy on marijuana is a non starter for most also.

But if only they and other similar parties could have a balance of power, to keep the encroaching totalitarianism in check.

 

[Smurf1976]

Yes I do agree that that is going to be a deal breaker for most. I have been banging on about that for ages that they should quietly drop that. I think their policy on marijuana is a non starter for most also.

But if only they and other similar parties could have a balance of power, to keep the encroaching totalitarianism in check.

Therein lies the problem.

Most if not all parties have a deal breaker, there's some fatal flaw in their policies meaning it's impossible to vote for anyone without some downside.

 

[IFocus]

WA isn't going through enough pain to change imo. I mean the state has to basically fall over before the opposition party gets voted in. It would have to get really bad for independents to grab a hold.

Also twitter isn't enough. If they want to grab votes they'd have to put roots down. Things like neighbourhood watch (a lot on Facebook now)or something that are springing up everywhere. Then you would have voting blocks in the local areas of disenfranchised voters. There's a real world crossover.

There's too much of a shotgun approach.

Disappointed the Liberals don’t have their act together but as long as the religious conservatives run the party they aren’t going anywhere people will not vote for them. Fortunately WA Labor have been pretty reasonable no serious controversy's not to say that won’t change but Roger Cook and his cabinet have been around for a long time most are very steady hands

 

[sptrawler]

A good win for Labor, as expected, when the Government is working smoothly there really isn't any reason to change.

However it isn't all beer and skittles, Labor had strong metropolitan support, but country people aren't happy,very similar to the last Federal election.

Support for WA government plummets outside Perth despite Labor win

While Roger Cook has been comfortably re-elected as premier, Labor's stocks outside Perth have plummeted.

www.abc.net.au

Regional Western Australia has swung hard against the Cook government, almost halving its regional representation amid swings against Labor as high as 20 per cent.

While the government comfortably won a third term on Saturday, its plummeting support in the country looms as a near-solitary bright spot on a disastrous weekend for the opposition.

After the 2021 landslide saw the government hit record levels of representation outside of Perth, Labor could be left with as few as four regional seats in the lower house.

It is the endpoint of a term that has seen the government struggle with the regional blowback around cultural heritage, gun laws, the state's timber industry, youth crime and live export.

 

[moXJO]

Disappointed the Liberals don’t have their act together but as long as the religious conservatives run the party they aren’t going anywhere people will not vote for them. Fortunately WA Labor have been pretty reasonable no serious controversy's not to say that won’t change but Roger Cook and his cabinet have been around for a long time most are very steady hands

If they are sensible it's fine. I don't really follow WA news except what I see on here.