I'm not Australian so Couldn't really give too shits to be honest.
The labor won the by election with a large swing against them. I don't know how you judge the results from that. But you would probably know that if you didn't cherry pick your current events information
Very irony-laden response there.
Not an Aussie? Bit of a cop-out, mate.
You seem rather invested in the result, regardless.
Swing against the ALP or not - the fact that they managed to
hold the seat after all of the previous sitting member's egotism, media-leaks against his colleagues, dishonesty, hypocrisy, backstabbing and general sliminess is actually pretty interesting.
My amateur analysis of the outcome is that a majority of the good people of your electorate are appalled by the Numan State Govt's police state, the Abbott govt's horrendous multifaceted agenda (and the threat to Qld's most precious natural asset - the Great Barrier Reef); or perhaps the by-election was won-and-lost on local issues that are of little consequence to me.
Either way - sucked in, mate!
Fuck the greedy mining industry and the LNP corporate boys' club.
Abbott is a huge liability to his thug cronies - i look forward to seeing more of the same in upcoming elections.
Winning power is one thing - maintaining it is something these dimwits are thankfully ill-equipped for.
Abbott couldn't organise a sexual liaison between Chris Pyne and Alan Jones!
The people are waking up - realising they've been had by the media and phony Tony's endless bullyboy rhetoric.
History won't be kind to these swine IMO.
As the anti-fracking campaigners say -
LOCK THE GATE
(and don't let these Tory crooks in again!)
The labor won the by election with a large swing against them. I don't know how you judge the results from that. But you would probably know that if you didn't cherry pick your current events information
Is that even supposed to actually
mean something?
"Cherry picking current events information"? Duh -
what?!
Once again, you're too worked up to formulate a logical argument.
So...when you go picking cherries, you pluck the overripe, rancid ones on the tree, do ya?
I guess that's a pretty good analogy for voting for Clive Palmer; big, overdone, poisonous lumps of shit that emits poisonous rotten crap.
Yes, I followed the by-election with interest - and
fuck yeah, I'm selective about what bullshit media I expose myself to. The mainstream media is just fluff, propaganda and cognitive effluent.
Of course I'm discerning about what I read!
Any other way of consuming media is essentially impossible in 2014.
I know such logic is lost on you though - you called me a "hipster" for not watching telly a couple of days ago...
It's not the 50s any more, busty. Television is bullshit.
Or do you get your "current events information" from the newsreel down at the local talkies theatre? If you're trying to imply - again - that I'm a single-interest, naive, political fool; I'd take a look in the mirror first, chum. I've been fighting these reactionary cunts since I was but a high school punk.