SA & Tassie elections

[Machiavella]

The Greens are a bit like the Democrats, they're there to keep the bastards honest. Once they start to be seen to be in bed with the bastards (just a few more elections now), they'll fade as well.

"Wahre Demokratie ist nur von unten her bequem". (Forget who coined this witty truism which goes something like: true democracy is comfy only from the bottom up, but it loses in translation).

[Hebe]

The Greens are a bit like the Democrats, they're there to keep the bastards honest. Once they start to be seen to be in bed with the bastards (just a few more elections now), they'll fade as well.

THE Tasmanian Greens have rejected a historic offer to join a Labor Cabinet, opening the door for the Liberals.
HOPES are growing within the Liberal Opposition that all chance of seizing government from the incumbent minority state Labor Government may not have disappeared.

The renewed optimism from within Liberal ranks follows the decision by Greens leader Nick McKim yesterday to reject the unprecedented offer from Premier David Bartlett to join his new Cabinet.

http://www.themercury.com.au/article/20 ... -news.html


But will Abetz allow Hodgman to negotiate with the Greens? My guess is no.

[TomB]

Shouldn't the Governor be shaking them by the scruff and telling them to form govt or GTFO?

[Machiavella]

Shouldn't the Governor be shaking them by the scruff and telling them to form govt or GTFO?

Government is not about governing, it's about elections, dontcha know!

Hebe:

as a fully signed up member of the Greens, what do you think of this "Thanks but no thanks" of your leader?

[Hebe]

I agree with him. Labor imposed some stringent conditions on his becoming a Cabinet member, which could have potentially have compromised his position as a Green, and caused a rift with his fellow Green MPs. I suspect it was a ploy by Bartlett to set them up to fail, so that when it did, everyone would blame the Greens and vote against them at the election I suspect we're about to have - again.

If you want information about the old Labor-Green accord, and why IT failed (which Labor have always blamed on the Greens), there is an insight here about what Labor did to make it fail, deliberately.

http://tasmaniantimes.com/index.php?/we ... w_comments

[J.W. Frogen]

Government is not about governing, it's about elections, dontcha know!

And to get elected you must listen to "the people".

As Mayor Diamond Joe Quimby once opined "are these morons getting dumber or just louder?"

[Hebe]

Oh, Bartlett listens. He just doesn't do anything about what he hears.