NSW election

[midfielder]

Libs to win by how many seats... what % of the vote will they get .... and will Libs control the upper house... can the greens become the major opposition party and replace labor ? ? ? ? ?

 

[kevrenor]

Libs to win by how many seats... what % of the vote will they get .... and will Libs control the upper house... can the greens become the major opposition party and replace labor ? ? ? ? ?

25 seat majority
52% before preferences
No - will need others
No

 

[hasbeen]

Jeez, I saw the ad last night for NSW Labor where KK spouts about BOF getting a blank check if we vote in the Libs ... of course it will be blank, she's spent all the money

 

[kevrenor]

check

:blink:

So far I have a pamphlet in my letter box from the Christian Democrats, Greens, Libs ... no ALP yet (though I know the candidate - she went to school with my Youngest daughter!) Anyone else out there?

I'm a number every box kind of guy ... this will be tricky.

Upper House - i'll go for my old colleague in Group 'L' then even trickier with the drongos on both Libs and ALP tickets, but easy Pauline Hanson last.

 

[hasbeen]

Check? Sh*t I can't believe I wrote that ... chequing out now for a rest

 

[midfielder]

Any one think ALP can win

 

[dibo]

What you're asking is "has anyone here either spent the last several years on Mars or suffered a catastrophic brain injury?"

 

[adz]

What you're asking is "has anyone here either spent the last several years on Mars or suffered a catastrophic brain injury?"

I'll put you down as a "maybe"

 

[Jazzie]

What you're asking is "has anyone here either spent the last several years on Mars or suffered a catastrophic brain injury?"

I was trying to describe what NSW was like to my two sons (who are of voting age) before the Labour Party came into power all those years ago ..... all they did was ROTFLing. Didn't believe any of it

 

[dibo]

Dead seriously, what has NSW labor done wrong in terms of the administration of the state?

More precisely, how will the Libs be different?

I've no issue with people wanting to vote Liberal, it's a free country and this government's time was up a long time ago. It's healthy to change governments once in a while and it's good of the Libs to have ceased to be utterly unelectable and give the people of NSW a reasonable alternative.

On the Labor side, the personalities are the problem - they're behaving to the last like the state is their fiefdom and have done since the last election, though even before 2007 they would have been unelectable but for an opposition that was unbelievably bad. You can't blame the Labor party for the appalling state of the opposition for about 12 of the last 16 years, but that has had its own consequences for the quality of government.

But I do have an issue with people pretending like there's going to be some massive change at the top when the other lot get in. They might be a bit 'nicer' (if you close your eyes and imagine that David Clarke, Marie Ficarra etc. don't exist), but that's about it.

If they're suddenly going to make the hospitals work, the trains run on time (most of the time), get unemployment way down low and get the economy growing overnight, then they won't have achieved much because that stuff's already there. The state's in pretty good shape.

BOF was on 702 this morning promising to bring accountability and integrity. How can you be accountable if you don't promise to do anything? How can you have any integrity when anything you do is not based on a specific mandate but done because you can?

Maybe they don't need to do anything, we're just going to have the meeja all simultaneously notice that shit just works and has done for quite a while now.

There is work to do, some freeways to be completed and rail lines to build, but they're seriously 10-20 year jobs. At the next election most of the same 'problems' will still be there, and BOF won't have a lot to show for it.

 

[scottmac]

Dead seriously, what has NSW labor done wrong in terms of the administration of the state?

More precisely, how will the Libs be different?

I've no issue with people wanting to vote Liberal, it's a free country and this government's time was up a long time ago. It's healthy to change governments once in a while and it's good of the Libs to have ceased to be utterly unelectable and give the people of NSW a reasonable alternative.

On the Labor side, the personalities are the problem - they're behaving to the last like the state is their fiefdom and have done since the last election, though even before 2007 they would have been unelectable but for an opposition that was unbelievably bad. You can't blame the Labor party for the appalling state of the opposition for about 12 of the last 16 years, but that has had its own consequences for the quality of government.

But I do have an issue with people pretending like there's going to be some massive change at the top when the other lot get in. They might be a bit 'nicer' (if you close your eyes and imagine that David Clarke, Marie Ficarra etc. don't exist), but that's about it.

If they're suddenly going to make the hospitals work, the trains run on time (most of the time), get unemployment way down low and get the economy growing overnight, then they won't have achieved much because that stuff's already there. The state's in pretty good shape.

BOF was on 702 this morning promising to bring accountability and integrity. How can you be accountable if you don't promise to do anything? How can you have any integrity when anything you do is not based on a specific mandate but done because you can?

Maybe they don't need to do anything, we're just going to have the meeja all simultaneously notice that shit just works and has done for quite a while now.

There is work to do, some freeways to be completed and rail lines to build, but they're seriously 10-20 year jobs. At the next election most of the same 'problems' will still be there, and BOF won't have a lot to show for it.

But Dibo, people don't care about all that. All they care is what the media feed them. Labour sux and all that. They wont win etc etc. People will realise that BOF isn't the messiah after a year or 2 and that the Libs are not any more or less competent than the current Labour party

 

[midfielder]

Be interesting to see if ALP gets its 10 seats something of a scare campaign if some of you don't vote for us ... we don't get party funding ...

TBH cannot think of a more unpopular government in my lifetime... even Joe & Flo had more support...

 

[Jazzie]

TBH cannot think of a more unpopular government in my lifetime... even Joe & Flo had more support...

Lol, Joe loved to feed the chickens. A real old time "pork barreller".

I was so surprised that Labor got in last election. They've generally ignored the coast, and I think people have just had a gutful.

 

[midfielder]

The people have spoken and as some in the media have said ... a bloodbath ...

 

[dibo]

Held my seat (Marrickville) and a good chance to hold Balmain. Two top results among the carnage.