Ty wrote:
Why? Sorry but I can't accept that you'd pick an option that lacks any substance led by a hollow-headed egotistical borderline psychopathic twit like Tony Abbott based solely on the fact that the Labor Government has had to deal with "scandals" - most of which have been dug up, spread, and propagated by the LNP for lack of anything better to talk about. It's got to be more than that but I don't know what it is.
What LNP policies do you actually agree with? What ALP policies do you think are rubbish? You really need to base your decision on actual substance rather than the trivialities spread by the Murdoch media.
I know you say you're not going to vote for either, that's your choice, but I get the feeling that you've contentedly resigned yourself to an LNP Government and are throwing your vote away essentially to abdicate responsibility when the Abbott Government proves to be completely fucked up.
I don't get a vote in this thing but if I did I would be compelled to vote for Labor. While I certainly wouldn't do it because I think they necessarily deserve it given the sideshows they have put on, I would do it to avoid the prospect of an LNP Government. Because I seriously do think an LNP Government would be that bad. From what they have released policy-wise and from what has been suggested about what they might do. And on top of that I can not stress how unsuitable a political leader Tony Abbott is. I really can't. He's a fool, a coward, a narcissist, he lacks any empathy, he's incredibly dishonest, he's completely and utterly without any reasoned ideas or conviction. He's a poor orator, he's a poor communicator, he's a poor organiser, and he's a poor negotiator. He should not be Prime Minister.
So please Dilbert, explain to be why you would be okay with an LNP Government and an Abbott PM. I'm struggling to understand here.
I don't see that Abbott is any better or worse than Rudd or Gillard at a personal level, Gillard is corrupt and ready to knife people to gain advantage, when she's a mediocre leader at best.
As far as policies go, Labor has had some reasonable policies ruined so badly by pisspoor implementation it would have been better if they'd never been thought of - Home Insulation, Carbon Tax, Mining Tax, 'Building the Education Revolution', the NBN for a few and no doubt the NDIS will be next.
I'm not interested in voting for a party run by left-wing apparatchiks who have never worked in the private sector. Love or hate the coalition they do have some background in business, business is important for the economy, if you don't have an economy to pay for it you can't run social programs.
Borrowing from the future to fund nice-to-have programs which won't return anything is not what govt should be doing however socially reasonable it seems.
Looking at just the parties and not the leaders, they're both piss-poor but the coalition does have some kind of track record of succesfully running the country.
