Comments on: Where do they find state politicians anyway?

By: Chris Johnson

Chris Johnson — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

As we lurched across a back seat in the ministerial car with a blithered minister at the wheel, we asked the same question. How DO morons like this get into public office? I can confidently say it’s a stuffed party system that churns out untalented, unacceptable political advocates such as the above – the likes of those who this week demolished the NSW Iemma Government by putting it on the moral and financial skids. It’s more than a good argument for Federal Minister of State John Faulkner to call on his Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee to deliver a preferred administration model that encourages and commits to best practice in government. Despite economies and communities being far more complex and challenging our political parties keep dishing up the same old obsolete inept candidates as party memberships do a Murray-Darling. These shrivelled low-functioning IQ/ EQ pools under antiquated Party administration are more concerned about policy appeal than upshot, candidate charisma than character and indoctrination not education. They shifted the public service goal posts to accommodate biased appointees so these ordinary candidates could seek out like-minds from a de-politicised public service. Why we put such visionless inexperienced amateurs through the doors of parliament with our lives and billion dollar economies to manage, I’ve no idea. May be John Faulkner and his committee can come up with something more appropriate.

By: Noddy

Noddy — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Gotta agree with Sponge Boy! One of the best pieces of politics in recent times. Bernard you should have pointed out months ago that it was Costa in ‘97 who was the architect of scuttling Carr and Egan electricity privatisation whwn he was the head of the Labor Council.

By: AngloGuy

AngloGuy — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Nathan Rees sure does look the goods. He’ll prove that white men can jump. He’s not a woman but his feminist mum left an indelible impression on him. He maybe Catholic but he still compared George Pell with a serial boofhead. What a breath of fresh air. He got rid of most of the mafia that was running the state. In Macquarie Street, they are already calling it the Mortein cabinet — no wogs.

By: AngloGuy

AngloGuy — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Sponge Boy and Noddy,
Barry O’Farrell might have some scalps but he has lost his credibility. That makes him a good opposition leader but I thought he wanted to be the Premier. O’Farrell is now unelectable. Rees will do him like Iemma did Debnam because he stands for nothing. The only way forward for the Libs now is for Mike Baird to become the opposition leader.

By: Sponge Boy

Sponge Boy — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Barry O’Farrell blew it? Come on, if he hadn’t done what he did Watkins, Iemma, Costa, Sartor and Meagher would still be there. 5 big scalps in a week - more than any Liberal leader since whenever. None would have gone without him. If this is blowing it, what do you call success?