View Full Version : Who are you going to vote for?
Briedis
19 Oct 2001, 11:36
Just thought it would be interesting to hold our own "opinion poll" here on BigFooty!
dee_girl9
19 Oct 2001, 11:42
Undecided.
Either Democrats or Independent.
Chilli Afterglow
19 Oct 2001, 12:16
To be honest, a fat lot of choice we've got! :rolleyes:
A steady but slightly stale Liberal government with nothing new to add or a shaky, poorly led Labor government with nothing new to add!
At least the Liberals are unlikely to stuff anything up over the next 2 years, while the thought of a spineless prat being the starring puppet to the Union movement scares me!
Im going write other, and vote for Tony Blair :D
Briedis
19 Oct 2001, 17:08
Labour just in front 7-5 at this stage....
Can't believe the Nats have not got a vote!
Livewire
19 Oct 2001, 18:29
I will be voting Liberal.No real alternative.
Asgardian
19 Oct 2001, 19:16
I never tell anyone who I vote for, it is no-one else's business
Westy_Boy
20 Oct 2001, 00:11
Thanks for taking the time out to tell us that you're not telling us, Chris. :confused:;)
I'll be voting Liberal, especially after seeing Labour's GST rollback 'strategy' earlier today. A vote for Liberal is worth jack shlt in the western suburbs of Melbourne though.
Grendel
20 Oct 2001, 08:04
Originally posted by Westy_Boy
Thanks for taking the time out to tell us that you're not telling us, Chris. :confused:;)
I'll be voting Liberal, especially after seeing Labour's GST rollback 'strategy' earlier today. A vote for Liberal is worth jack shlt in the western suburbs of Melbourne though.
Hehehe, thats why I vote Liberal too! More as a protest vote than anything else.
PiesPremiers
20 Oct 2001, 08:09
IF i were old enough, i'd vote Liberal.
I just voted Liberal! i wont ever vote for that fat git in the "UNION" party!
BTW, it's:
Liberal = 14
Labour =13
It's bloody interesting that most of you lot here have whinged and bitched about the GST, BUT the Liberals are winning!
Go figure!
If I could legally vote I'd go for labour. But I can't so i'll just have to settle for this opinion poll.
Interesting to see if One Nation gets off the ground.
Lil_Miss_Eagle
20 Oct 2001, 14:44
If i was old enough to vote I'd go with Labour.
Im voting Labor - not a big fan of Howard and his boys :D
Carlton_Premier
20 Oct 2001, 15:20
im voting, or can i not. the question is on not who you are or what you eat its about what you eat!
Joe Mama
20 Oct 2001, 16:01
Briedis, the reason why the Nats are on the nose in regional areas is because they are now just an off-shoot of the Liberals, and that git John Anderson is not a "Black Jack" McEwen, by any stretch of the imagination.
But, I live in the Murray Electorate which is the safest Liberal seat in the country, which is held by back-bencher, Sharman Stone. Although she is personable and passionate , I voted here for Labour, because I like Sharman Stone, but not her party and its politics. (but it makes a d*ck of difference here).
In the Upper House, I would vote for Labour, then the Democrats and Greens.
The Hitman
20 Oct 2001, 16:11
I'm not voting...damn over 18 laws... :mad: :(
Hitter mumbles to himself as he works his way to the corner...
The Hitman
If old enough..... Democrats. But there is no chance in hell my vote would count towards them so I would vote Labor.
Mags
Originally posted by The Hitman
I'm not voting...damn over 18 laws... :mad: :(
same, but i would vote Labor if i could.
London Dave
20 Oct 2001, 20:10
i'm not allowed to vote in Oz anymore, but they still take taxes off me. great system!
Briedis
22 Oct 2001, 09:46
Originally posted by Asgardian
I never tell anyone who I vote for, it is no-one else's business
You could always vote in the poll and then NOT post who you voted for...:rolleyes:
GOALden Hawk
22 Oct 2001, 10:23
Labor - simply because they offer more to me as a young student than Liberals ever will. I also think our local member has done a pretty good job.
Was Democrats last time, but their deal with Libs over the GST was a disgrace.
Originally posted by Chilli Afterglow
To be honest, a fat lot of choice we've got! :rolleyes:
A steady but slightly stale Liberal government with nothing new to add or a shaky, poorly led Labor government with nothing new to add!
At least the Liberals are unlikely to stuff anything up over the next 2 years, while the thought of a spineless prat being the starring puppet to the Union movement scares me!
yEAH a spinless midget in the pockets of big business is what is really needed:rolleyes:
Never vote for a Pollie....you only encourage them if you do.
Stegelator
24 Oct 2001, 17:45
Originally posted by PiesPremiers
IF i were old enough, i'd vote Liberal. Same!
Santos L Helper
24 Oct 2001, 18:13
Originally posted by CJ
I just voted Liberal! i wont ever vote for that fat git in the "UNION" party!
BTW, it's:
Liberal = 14
Labour =13
It's bloody interesting that most of you lot here have whinged and bitched about the GST, BUT the Liberals are winning!
Go figure!
CJ, there's nothing like a war (against terrorism or boat people) to bind the nation in hatred.
The Liberals will get in, but only because Johnny's lucked out with a rise in national pride and the joining together of hands against the foreign scurge.
Not that I'm bitter or anything. ;)
Santos L Helper
24 Oct 2001, 18:14
Originally posted by PiesPremiers
IF i were old enough, i'd vote Liberal.
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Originally posted by Stegelator
Same!
Coming from two guys who spend all their time arguing about fantasy footy, I can see the Liberal party will be in safe hands.:confused:
Macca19
24 Oct 2001, 18:37
Im voting Liberal...same as i did last time too.
I dont trust Labour - especially after the last two fuknuts they had as Prime Minister in Keating and Hawke
I shudder to think what this country will be like if fat boy Beasley gets elected
Goalden Hawk, what do Labor offer young students that Liberal don't?
Anyway, I got the fright of my life recently. I opened up our letterbox to see a newsletter from our MP. I never knew we had an MP as we never hear or see him until election time.
He never does anything because he is in one of the safest Labor seats in the state so he knows he can do sweet f..k all and still get elected every 4 years.
Dippers Donuts
25 Oct 2001, 17:27
I will probably vote labor simply because of the labor party's stance on issues such as the republic and aboriginal reconciliation.
I cannot vote for a party that has such mindless buffoons as Howard/Costello/Vanstone/Abbott etc in its ranks. Social vandals that's all they are.
I would have been tempted to vote for the Democrats in the senate but I can't stand that media tart Stott-Despoja.
Good to see labor is cleaning up in this poll; hope it happens in real life as I have got a thousand dollars riding on a labor victory with a mate.
I'll be voting Liberal but I live in a safe Liberal seat so I won't have that much influence.
I hate to imagine what the country will be like if not only Beazley wins, but Crean as treasurer.
Dippers Donuts
25 Oct 2001, 17:40
A liberal voting Melbourne supporter?
My god, what's the world coming to!!
Top Dog
26 Oct 2001, 19:04
Originally posted by Lil_Miss_Eagle
If i was old enough to vote I'd go with Labour.
DITTO
I so don't want to vote for anyone!! All as bad at each other. If i vote for Liberal ... my vote won't count anyway as i live in a safe ALP seat. So i guess it comes down to who'll i'll vote for in the Senate, and that'll have to be Natasha and her Democrats!
I try not to vote at all. It only encourages them.
But now that the Liberal Party has made One Nation's policies redundant and exposed half the nation for the racists they always were (funny how vilifying foreigners and Aboriginals was so distasteful when Pauline said it, and now we have a million excuses for it), I'll be votiing Democrat and sending my preferences to Labour.
On a website well endowed with dandiprats it is surprising that Labour (includes Greens and democrats) do not get at least 75% of the vote.
Why they should cognitively choose to vote for lurdans and snollygosters is quite beyond me but in a democratic society we all have the opportunity to be a hoddy-noddy and even post here as a blatherskite.
Shinboners
29 Oct 2001, 19:44
I'm in a safe Liberal seat, so my vote won't count for anything.
However, I will not be voting for the ALP ("They once attracted the creme of the working class, now they get the dregs of the middle class" - Clyde Cameron....I think) or the Democrats (hey, how are the equal opportunity laws going in Afghanistan today, hey Natasha?)
Totally agree Shinners, the working class now has no representive in government,they are all right wing, the workers are getting screwed by everyone.
So if the 'workers' are getting screwed then who are the people that do not work? Such hoddy-noddy talk gets us nowhere.
We live in a society that has the strongest trade unions in the world and they are apolitical rather than being mostly concerned for the welfare of their members.
There are many instances of employees being exploited by callous owners and managers but even more instances where trade unions have exploited companies with blackmail, unrealistic claims and the imposition of restrictive working practices. The result is seen in Ansett like debacles where the airline could not compete due to high costs. 10 days to service a 737 compared with 3 for other airlines, 50% higher wages than Qantas who in turn are overpaid. This situation is rife in Australia in minesites, building sites, the waterfront etc, etc, etc.......
The penning of a blatherskite should be ignored.
Shinboners
30 Oct 2001, 13:37
Some fair points Frodo, but the waterfront has improved out of sight in the last twenty years.
Twenty years ago, if you imported goods into Australia, you could probably nail down an expected delivery date into a four week period. Now you know what day a container will be unloaded.....and you get all your goods instead of finding a few cartons missing.
The mining sites are another story, and it's a mixed one. Rio Tinto has essentially kicked out the unions from their Hammesley Iron Mines by offering the workers better conditions than what the unions could deliver. The thing is that they did this over a couple of years, and when the workplace agreement legislation came in, they said to their workforce, "We offerred you these contracts. There was no negotiation with the unions. So, are you going to be a part of the union or accept these contracts?". Naturally the workforce did not sign up with their unions. Over in the Hunter Valley coalmines though, the CFMEU has an iron grip on the workforce there. It is one of the most militant in the country, but also, it is also one of the most strike free. Rio Tinto management has been able to work out agreements on conditions and productivity with the CFMEU, and both sides seem to be happy with the arrangement.
However, Frodo does have a point about wage negotiations and unrealistic demands. I work in an industry that is very labour intensive, but business owners are reluctant to take on new people because as well as wages, they are required to pay work cover, superannuation, payroll tax, etc. On top of that, if they have to sack the worker, and the worker takes the owner to court for unlawful dismissal, then there are added costs on that. IT's much easier to ask their current workforce to take on more overtime OR hire workers from the contract labour firms. Thus, for the current workers, they can get overworked whilst the ones from the contract firms don't get their dream of having a full time position. In the end, you have less positions available in the current workforce, and if your business is a labour intensive one, you start looking towards Asia and either buying from there or setting up a factory there simply because the labour cost is so much lower.
ALP - 32
Coalition 27
Getting very close now.....
It's been a while since the ALP got a vote. Is that a sign of something?
I hear Johnny has been coming in here everyday to check on how the "real" voters are voting and is shaking in his boots!:D
Originally posted by Dippers Donuts
Good to see labor is cleaning up in this poll; hope it happens in real life as I have got a thousand dollars riding on a labor victory with a mate.
If you can afford $1000 bets why do you support the labor party?:confused: :D
Almost level now...after getting a big lead, the ALP has stopped to a walk in the BigFooty election poll!