Post by Admin on Apr 25, 2022 15:36:55 GMT 8
Copied from a post by Peter Sawyer posting as Guest on another thread
I have explained at least a couple of hundred times now over the last six years, our preferential voting system is rigged and the only way to throw a spanner in the works is to forget about parties and number the sitting member LAST if they are Lib, Labor or Nats. How you number the rest of the candidates is less important than who you number LAST as it is the only place where your vote will not flow to that candidate in the distribution of preferences.
The hang up about the Greens is especially ridiculous. They hold ONE single seat in the HoR - the inner city seat of Melbourne. If you live in that electorate by all means number Adam Bandt last. However, if you live in one of the other 150 seats numbering the Greens candidate below the Libs/Nats or Labor pretty much ensures one of them will get elected.
By the same simple maths numbering the Labor candidate below the sitting Lib because you "hate the socialists" simply guarantees the reelection of the Lib, and vice versa. Why do you think the Powers That Be spend so much time, money and effort into presenting each election as a competition between Liberal/Nats and Labor? They don't care which of them wins as long as it remains a two horse race with a predictable outcome.
PS - I did not coin the phrase "Progressive Socialist Uniparty" - S.P.U. - pronounced "spew".
It was Winston Smith or twostix I think - back in 2016. But I like it - very apt.
The hang up about the Greens is especially ridiculous. They hold ONE single seat in the HoR - the inner city seat of Melbourne. If you live in that electorate by all means number Adam Bandt last. However, if you live in one of the other 150 seats numbering the Greens candidate below the Libs/Nats or Labor pretty much ensures one of them will get elected.
By the same simple maths numbering the Labor candidate below the sitting Lib because you "hate the socialists" simply guarantees the reelection of the Lib, and vice versa. Why do you think the Powers That Be spend so much time, money and effort into presenting each election as a competition between Liberal/Nats and Labor? They don't care which of them wins as long as it remains a two horse race with a predictable outcome.
PS - I did not coin the phrase "Progressive Socialist Uniparty" - S.P.U. - pronounced "spew".
It was Winston Smith or twostix I think - back in 2016. But I like it - very apt.
