Recently, while I was working in the flower beds in my front yard, my neighbours stopped to chat as they returned home from walking their dog.
During our friendly conversation, I asked their little girl what she wanted to be when she grew up.
She said she wanted to be Prime Minister someday.
Both of her parents, Labor Party supporters, were standing there so I asked her,
"If you were Prime Minister what would be the first thing you would do?"
She replied...
"I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people."
Her parents beamed with pride! "Wow...what a worthy goal!"
I said,
"But you don't have to wait until you're Prime Minister to do that!"
"What do you mean?" she asked.
So I told her,
"You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull out weeds, and trim my hedge and I'll pay you $100. Then you can go over to the supermarket where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $100 to use toward food and some proper accommodation."
She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked,
"Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $100?"
I have just completed a week of handing out council voting cards for an independent.
This morning I am looking at informal votes in some polling locations varying with 30.1% to 64.03% informal votes!!!!
All week I protested that there should be no "groups" at local council elections, with a string of independents at the end of the groups it unnecessarily complicated a simple voting process in our region.
It is disgraceful how the major political parties infiltrate and stuff these things up. Local council should be concerned citizens on local issues only.
As a footnote, there was ONE political party misbehaved at some polling locations - guess who????
I have since spoken to a candidate and he advised me why the informal votes are so high.
It is because if anyone votes below the line for a grouped candidate, that vote initially goes into the informal vote classification. It is then dragged out of there later and the "1" applied to the respective candidate.
Strange, but that is the way of electoral commissions.
That was really poor form and incompetence on the part of one "party" that missed noms. How embarrassing and useless are they? Mind you, I am dead set against major parties being involved in local councils, but the beast has steadily infiltrated local government. The failed independent candidate I spoke to this morning had the community at heart and is an honest decent fella and the former deputy mayor and did a great job in the last term. But he is a snowballs chance in xxxx to get his spot back mainly due to the selfish self-centred clowns in the major parties. Some of whom simply use local government as a stepping stone in their egotistical move up the ranks. So they perceive.
Local council elections should be independently minded people with only the local community at heart. This is not so. The Frmrs and sh**ters really polled heavily in the bush, I guess the missed race voters had to find somewhere to go. Trouble is a couple of those candidates are probably not what the community would have liked to have represent them. Single minded and narrow minded sheeplike candidates really have no place in this sphere to my way of thinking.
That will no doubt annoy those rusted on party sheep voters, the lemmings who would jump off a bridge before taking a neutral, sensible approach to most issues. Just rust on and stick to the beliefs of others no matter what.
