GunRunning Down Under

From: "John Atkinson" <johnmatkinson@yahoo.com>

> --- Alan and Carmel Brain <aebrain@austarmetro.com.au>

(BTW as Brendan so kindly told me, it was the Libs after all)

> So tell me, to a conservative (ie: still feels strong

Yes. The Libs actually do more for the unemployed etc, but say all the wrong
things. They're scientifically illiterate, and their immigration policy sucks.
I'd call myself a
left-wing Liberal, broadly in agreement with em but very
very VERY anti on a few key issues. Like their starving of science. And the
concentration camps in the desert for illegal immigrants.

The Labour party - i.e. the party of Labour, the Unions
have a 30% block vote - are great at saying the right
things but doing very little about social security apart from spending lots of
money to little effect. They're also in bed with many of the richest 1% of the
country. I like what they say, I loath what they do, and trust them not one
iota. Forex their science and R&D policy sounds great, but examine the numbers
and you see that they give even less money to Academe than the Phillistine
Libs :-(

The Democrats are Labour without the backbone. Too touchy
feelly. Too willing to kowtow to Labour. Wishy-washy.

And the Greens are (some of em) superstitious anti-technologists
who would otherwise get my vote, some of their policies are
actually pretty good - what they do is good, what they say isn't.
Tasmania is a Green stronghold BTW.

All very much IMHO. By all means get opinons from Derek and
Beth - they're bound to be different from mine, and I'd be
interested in what they have to say (I respect them both immensely).

> > c) Seven times Never ship unsafe ammunition!

--- Alan and Carmel Brain <aebrain@austarmetro.com.au>
wrote:

> > So tell me, to a conservative (ie: still feels

They all sound like communists to me. But then again, I can't tell the
difference between Trotskyites and Stalinists either.

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G'day,

> All very much IMHO. By all means get opinons from Derek and

At present both major parties are VERY disappointing with regard to any
policies of import - heaven only knows how low the opinion of the world
in general must be falling because of our current dealings with refugees:(

And while the Greens may be strong down here in Tassie it doesn't make Mr
Brown (funny how the head Green is a Brown;P) a popular guy down here. Though
to be fair you get to know you pollies better than most in Tassie as there's
such a small population per polly (original number of Senate seats determined
at federation to be equal for all states and being so small we win out big
there).

> I still can't believe that a nebbish like Tony Abbot could

Only in Australia could you have a political party where two of the main
players are named Abbot and Costello....

I thought the difference was Stalinists got to keep breathing.

Michael Brown

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> --- Robin Paul <Robin.Paul@tesco.net> wrote:

> Trots are skinny, squeaky, beardy and revisionist.

Both are badly embarassed by Poles.

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> --- Robin Paul <Robin.Paul@tesco.net> wrote:

> > > Trots are skinny, squeaky, beardy and

> Unless they're Galician, or Czechoslovakian, or

I was actually referring to the defeat of the Red Army by the Poles.