Dry Rot's Mailbag

[Dry Rot]

Apologies to Sam and TFS.

Yes, it's that time of year when your letterbox and maybe your inbox groans under the weight of crappy political flyers and emails.

What have you received? Have you got any loony tunes ones?

 

[MightyFighting]

Forget about the mailbag. I want to see Dry Rot's street talk.


But anyway, there was one letter I got from a candidate whose party leader believed women shouldn't be in the workforce, that abortion and stem-cell research should be illegal and that young people shouldn't get the dole. Crazy stuff. I forget the name of the party.

 

[Caesar]

Nothing crazy, but my safe-as-houses Labor MP was unable to name a single notable thing that they'd achieved for the local community. Her list of achievements was exclusively made up of national programmes like the BER dressed up as 'new school halls for X, Y & Z primary schools'.

I want a share of all the pork being handed out.

 

[fairdinkum]

Forget about the mailbag. I want to see Dry Rot's street talk.

+1

But anyway, there was one letter I got from a candidate whose party leader believed women shouldn't be in the workforce, that abortion and stem-cell research should be illegal and that young people shouldn't get the dole. Crazy stuff. I forget the name of the party.

Sounds like Tony's first draft of his promotional fliers before his minders got to work on 'tidying it up a bit'.

 

[MightyFighting]

My seat has candidates from the Sex Party, Family First and the Secular Party. I'm dissapointed that I haven't recieved mail from any of them.

 

[pazza]

I'm awaiting the mail from independent standing in Gillard's seat who lives on Sydney's North Shore!!!

 

[Caesar]

The Secular Party is one of the few 'single-issue' parties I could almost get on board with. I'm not a fan of voluntary euthanasia, and I think changing the constitution is more than a little OTT, but a lot of their other policies seem pretty worthy.

Of course, I haven't looked into them in detail so there could be some nutty stuff hiding in their policy documents.

 

[King Elvis]

My seat has candidates from the Sex Party, Family First and the Secular Party. I'm dissapointed that I haven't recieved mail from any of them.

I wish the Sex Party would come door knocking.

 

[stmookeyj]

Working in a mail centre has its advantages.......Plenty of material from Labor attacking Abbott mainly. Only LNP material I've personally seen has been from Senator Ron Boswell, although I think others have seen stuff from Ken O'Dowd (candidate for Flynn). There has been plenty of mail processed from Kirsten Livermore (Capricornia MP), and Chris Trevor (Flynn MP). Nothing from the Greens, probably conserving the environment by not wasting paper.

 

[Contra Mundum]

The Secular Party is one of the few 'single-issue' parties I could almost get on board with. I'm not a fan of voluntary euthanasia, and I think changing the constitution is more than a little OTT, but a lot of their other policies seem pretty worthy.

Of course, I haven't looked into them in detail so there could be some nutty stuff hiding in their policy documents.

Like wanting to have pograms for anyone who attends worship services!!

 

[Caesar]

I didn't know they were that extremist.

I'm not saying I agree with everything. Someone told me the other day they want to ban religious attire on children in schools, which I think is far too nanny-state.

 

[evo]

I'd vote for them. "Titus, release the lions!"

 

[strategy]

Over the last 10 years NO ONE in my electorate i have spoken to and i know thousands of people, business people etc have EVER SEEN or spoken to a ALP candidate re: State or Fed elections.
They just dont appear EVER .
We get the junk mail but not the person.
Its funny when much of the mail comes , some of it says " sorry we missed you at home " etc .... ( they never bloody turn up , they just have letter box drops by postie or a paid person/ s to do it for them .
Maybe because we a LIberal electorate .

 

[Contra Mundum]

I didn't know they were that extremist.

I'm not saying I agree with everything. Someone told me the other day they want to ban religious attire on children in schools, which I think is far too nanny-state.

I have overstated it a bit - but they have hooked onto Dick Dawkin's idea of "deprogramming" people who are "fervently religious"

 

[Caesar]

Yes, IMO that is beyond the realms of something that calls itself a secular party. It starts becoming promotion of atheism, which actually hurts the secular cause.

 

[Richo83]

The Secular Party is one of the few 'single-issue' parties I could almost get on board with. I'm not a fan of voluntary euthanasia, and I think changing the constitution is more than a little OTT, but a lot of their other policies seem pretty worthy.

Of course, I haven't looked into them in detail so there could be some nutty stuff hiding in their policy documents.

How come we have to change the constitution to allow voluntary euthanasia?

@ evo, lol.

 

[Caesar]

No, they're separate and unrelated policies. Sorry, the way I worded it was a little unclear.

 

[King Elvis]

Yes, IMO that is beyond the realms of something that calls itself a secular party. It starts becoming promotion of atheism, which actually hurts the secular cause.

Both them and the LDP have huge potential, but they're both shooting themselves in the foot by adopting a few extremist, unrealistic positions.