Dear reader, there’s been a state election. The Liberals have been trounced.
Worse than that, they’ve been shellacked, creamed, rendered cactus, made unviable, sent to the wilderness for another eight years. And for the people of Hawthorn, Brighton, Portsea and Box Hill, the Liberal brand has been made unpalatable? How could this be? The most blue ribbon of the blue ribbon seats turned red. Could this require a root and branch change in Liberal party tactics? Could this in any shape manner or form be attributable to what’s going on in Canberra? And has been boldly suggested by some, suggest that their policy direction of more prisons, more fear and hate for anyone who’s not a white, heterosexual and God – fearing male could be questionable?
Well the answer is this. It’s got nothing to do with the Liberals lunch to the right. Nothing to do with the proliferation or ultra right nut job looney mormons in the party. And nothing at all to do with the party being tainted by the likes of Dutton, Abetz, Kelly, Abbott, and Kroger etc. They’ve got nothing to do with it. They’re just doing their job protecting all of us from African Crime Gangs and the threat of terrorism.
Nup, according to experts within the Party, it’s the electorates fault. And they’re quite right.
Election time is always a tricky time for the likes of us, at pcbycp. Cecil likes to vote left of centre, and the centre keeps shifting. Last time we looked he’d voted for what used to be the left and it’d gone right, whilst the centre had gone off the scale. Not content he set up his own party and didn’t expect to win,
His Monster looney, walk backwards, and say “dum dum dum de dum” party scored only .0005 % of the vote.
“Phew” thought Cecil, that’ll shake the place up a it, and there’s no way I’ll ever have to bear the responsibility of being elected. But he was dead wrong. He’s now in the Legislative Council. And worse still, he’s gotta attend Upper House meetings to determine important pieces of legislation.
You’d think in the last state parliament safe injecting rooms, the right to die, the right for women not to be stoned represented the high point of legislation passed through the Upper House. They were all promulgated by Fiona Patten, from The Reason Party. Patten wanted to do something really radical, like remove the status of religious groups to proclaim themselves as charity. That’d mean they’d be like everyone else and pay tax. That would also compromise their capacity to amass vast amounts of real estate and in the case of the Catholic Church, allow them to have a huge war chest to crush mums and dad and kiddies who’d been abused, raped, demeaned and buggered any recompense. Bit like the Liberals, It’d be all their own fault.
No wonder why Fiona failed, she was just too reasoned for the electorate.
But Cecils dilemma is much bigger. His first piece of legislation?
The right to be reasonable.
A dodgy bit of legislation, and doomed, cos being reasonable in politics is unreasonable.