NSW, spelt W-T-F.
Anyone fancy another 19 months of this sort of thing?
Regardless of either his personal morality or the disputed claim that it affected his ministerial performance, the image of John Della Bosca finding time for an extra-marital relationship while serving in the most difficult State portfolio perfectly sums up a Government and a Party that has long since become exclusively focused on itself rather than the state it was elected to run.
The national economy — let alone that of NSW — will be heavily damaged by the continuation of this farce. Prior to the GFC, the NSW economy had appeared to be operating at a slower pace than even the other non-mineral boom states. An economic recovery in which NSW remains mired in high unemployment, high debt and low growth will immensely complicate the already-difficult task of adjusting our fiscal and monetary policy settings to deal with the return to more normal economic conditions.
Unless this Government is removed, we will all pay the price for the misjudgement and lack of talent of the NSW Labor Party. Extraordinary incompetence calls for extraordinary measures. None of us, residents of NSW or otherwise, can afford to wait 19 months.
I know that, with flexible government and legislative modalities, many overseas countries can restructure governments at a gun tottin’ whim but by what democratic, legal and constitutional process would you remove a government 19 months ahead of the majority party’s intention?
“by what democratic, legal and constitutional process would you remove a government 19 months ahead of the majority party’s intention”
Those issues didn’t bother Malcolm Fraser, but then he had a Governor General to chat it over with.
Personally, I think Guy Fawkes had the right idea.
You morons (NSW Labor Voters) voted for these nitwts knowing how useless they are.
You reap what you sow.
Yeah why didn’t they vote for the nutcase religious right. Would Debnam’s tearful concession press conference the week before the election (oh god, I laughed so hard at that one I nearly crashed the car) and the byzantine lib infighting during the campaign or the vicious white-anting of John Brogden or Barry O’Farrell wisely refusing to pick up the steaming turd that was party leadership and all the other messages the north shore taliban sent to the voters have had a role in making up voters minds.
As bad as they were Labor looked a better bet then. What a ringing endorsement of the NSW libs! As bad as labor is now the libs can barely drag their sorry fundamentalist *rses over the line to snatch victory from the walking dead.
I have to say, as much as I think the Liberals often get it wrong – I can not believe that Carr was allowed to stay on for as long as he did. The Labour party hasnt at all supported New South Wales, and I would love to see them go for at least ONE term.
I suspect though, that now Carr is gone, they will get someone new in to lead their party and New South Welshmen (and Welshladies??) will think “Oh its not voting for the same people who have stuffed us around in the past, its a completely DIFFERENT Labour party”. Frankly even the crappy NSW Liberals would be less crappy than the crappy NSW labour. Its a shame to look at politics that way, but unfortunately in Australia we do not have much else of an option.
Mind you at least its not England.