Under the headline "Looney Left are hung ou to dry" ALP powerbroker Stephen Loosley had this to say in today's Sunday Telegraph (8/1/06)
"Most serious political players in democracy - in both the major parties in Australia - understand the necessity of winning broad majority support in order to govern effectively.
This is not a dilemma which confronts the Greens, who are narrow casters in plitics.
The Greens do not seek 50 per cent plus one of the electorate. For them, anything much over seven per cent is a triumph.
A quota for a Senate or legislative Council seat is the summit of ambition. Governing is not on the agenda.
Put simply, the Greens, as fringe dwellers, can afford to alienate the majorities as long as an electoral splinter continues to be satisfied with their performance. And given that Green cadres too often reflect views that suggest that the Berlin Wall never came down or that Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was a good idea, some degree of alienation may be anticipated from time to time."
Stephen Loosley may be contacted at
loosleys@sundaytelegraph.com.auPerhaps he needs to be told in no uncertain terms what we all think of the rotten deal his mates in Macquarie Street have made with the Greens in order that they may be re-elected next elections and of the continuing hip pocket pain of NSW voters by way of an "Environmental" levy NSW Councils will be forced to collect and of the totally unnecessary "lock-outs" being forced on recreational fishers.
