It's one of those periods where you wonder how the politicians on the obviously losing side manage to get up in the morning. Do they mutter to themselves "it's all so pointless" over their corn flakes?
Anyway, let's sit back and enjoy watching the centrists and the science denying, culture warring Right in the Party fighting it out. (Hilariously, I see at Catallaxy, the people argue that the Liberals need to be led by someone more like Trump. They have no idea.)
The answer remains clear - you can't have coherent energy and climate change policy without believing in climate change. That big rump (I'm guessing 35%) of the Coalition that just refuses to believe it is an issue at all need to be told to leave the party.
Update: and I forgot to mention - the LDP gets 3,000 odd votes in the
Update 2: As I was rudely told in comments, the votes in my previous update were for the Lower House, not the Upper, and I think the party ran 3 candidates. So they cracked a 1,000 votes each, or thereabouts? Congratulations! As for the number of votes in the Upper House, I don't understand how the voting works there, given we don't have an Upper House in Queensland. But I see that the LDP did get 50,000 odd votes, which puts it about even with the Animal Justice Party, way behind Deryn Hinch's Justice Party, and also behind the Shooter Fishers and Farmers Party. What's more, at the last election, they got 3.06% of the vote, but at this one, at the moment, the vote is at 2.3%.
So, they're going backwards? Again, congratulations.
no its is a distinct minority but they play hardball in a government where you cannot afford members to vote against you.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the main game however is that the alleged conservatives have no intellectual firepower. They have become just like Catallaxy or Bolt.
I yearn for the days when the conservatives were the intellectual powerhouse around the country.
What are you referring to in the first line, homer?
ReplyDeletethe liberal 'conservatives' in parliament
ReplyDeleteThat's the lower house you twat. LDP got over 50,000 votes in the upper house.
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