-from the West Australian-I was once a political junkie but for the last year or 18 months I have lost all interest in the subject. Why? Probably because I saw too much, I saw the corruption. I saw what a disgrace politics in this state in particular had become. Labor had become all too much the same as the Liberal Party, the Carpenter Government had totally lost the plot, which actually started as soon as Geoff Gallop left. Thanks to default Premier Carpenter Corruption was alive and well.
The Greens seemed to forget they were a grass roots environmental party and appeared to get lost in the other stuff. Environmental and more importantly Environmental Health disappeared from the radar before and did not surface again during the election campaign.
When the election was over and the results started to become clearer I became even more depressed about politics, some results such as independent (because he was sacked from the Labor party) John Bowler winning the seat of Kalgoorlie - just blew me away.
What on earth is wrong with people today? Can they not see past the $ signs?
Locally we have an ardent new Labor MP which currently doesn't seem like a bad thing, time will tell.
Colin Barnett is now Premier, albeit Premier by default, but I think he needs to be reminded often that the Liberals did not win the election.
Here is something to ponder - Is the liberal party any less corrupt than Labor was? Does anyone really need to answer that?
7 comments:
Politics is a dirty word to most, the almighty dollar continues to rule.People ask for quality of life, clean air & water and for industry to respect our environment.
Until government clean up their act and rule for the people,corruption won't change.As for the accidental premier.... well we've seen it all before.
Thanks Enviro,
Accidental Premier that's the term I should have used - you can't get anymore accidential that that hey.
At the end of the day let's hope this gives labor the shake up it desperately deserves, but those like the member for Rockingham still in the house I would suggest it will remain business as usual.
No wonder politics is such a dirty word to so many people. It's depressing. No wonder Geoff Gallop quit.
I don't know about corruption, but they sure as hell aren't a particularly great team in government. I still can't believe Troy Buswell is treasurer.
Yes Dave, it is quite unbelievable hey, from drunken slob chair sniffer to treasurer in a few short months is a big step.
Enviro - and why didn't I think of the pgrase "politics is a dirty word" as a heading for the post?
Maybe you should right my blogs for me?
:-)
phrase even
Your blogs are fine Steve, you don't need others writing them for you, not even a phrase. Dave as a reporter how is it your not aware of corruption that's gone on?
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