Election time brings the wacky
Jul. 27th, 2010 07:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizbeeI don't know about anyone else, but I've been kind of mourning the lack of batshit in this election. Aside from the now-disendorsed Liberal candidate who declared himself the voice of God, there's been a general reluctance to break out the crazy sauce. Or even the interesting sauce.
But tonight, that all changed. As I left the station this evening, a smiling middle-aged man thrust a leaflet into my hand. The front looked like this:
With a beginning like that, I knew it had to be good, so I accepted it with thanks, quickly skimmed it, then rushed home to share it with the internet.
(...that was a couple of hours ago. I had to shower! And eat!)
But tonight, that all changed. As I left the station this evening, a smiling middle-aged man thrust a leaflet into my hand. The front looked like this:
With a beginning like that, I knew it had to be good, so I accepted it with thanks, quickly skimmed it, then rushed home to share it with the internet.
(...that was a couple of hours ago. I had to shower! And eat!)
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Date: 2010-07-27 09:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-27 10:27 am (UTC)ETA: All was revealed in the closely typed pages of the CEC's monthly journal, an intimidatingly wordy organ that, between attacks on Mel Gibson and Hermann Goering, also lifted the lid on "the pro-Hitler Fascist Origins of the Liberal Party". Not that other parties were much better, all of them being controlled by some tentacle or other of global capital, even the Greens. Surely not, asked a member of the audience. Indeed, said Mr Isherwood. Didn't the Duke of Edinburgh himself create the World Wide Fund for Nature in the late '60s? What further proof do you need?
I AM SO CONFUSED!
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Date: 2010-07-27 11:00 am (UTC)My electorate is strongly Liberal and has been since it was Malcolm Fraser's seat. But the current MP is retiring after a billion years, and both Labor and Liberal have seen fit to send down candidates from Melbourne (the worst sin of all!) so there's buckets of Independents jumping in now. Fun times!
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Date: 2010-07-27 11:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-27 09:43 am (UTC)I am in Peter Costello's old seat, so all we ever get is form letters from the woman who replaced him. Nobody else even bothers.
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Date: 2010-07-27 10:36 am (UTC)Anglicans: like Jesuits, only more so!
Date: 2010-07-27 10:37 am (UTC)Oh God. I suppose it's not quite as stupid as the stuff about the Fabians, but that's still so bloody daft I don't know where to start...
Re: Anglicans: like Jesuits, only more so!
Date: 2010-07-27 10:42 am (UTC)They also believe that the Elders of Zion and a Fascist secret society are working together, possibly in league with Paris Hilton, to conceal the evidence of the global depression now underway.
Re: Anglicans: like Jesuits, only more so!
Date: 2010-07-27 10:49 am (UTC)the Queen is like the Pope, really. Only with prettier frocks.
But he has nicer shoes!
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Date: 2010-07-27 11:27 am (UTC)Is it bad that after twenty years of squeeing every time someone even says the words "federal election", I just want this one to be over already? I seem to have lost my political squee. :(
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Date: 2010-07-27 02:49 pm (UTC)It's boring and I find the idea of one side the equivalent of hell, and the other isn't doing anything to inspire me.
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Date: 2010-07-27 02:45 pm (UTC)We received mail from our local member today, I've wondered a couple of times during this term whether Ruddock was still alive.
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Date: 2010-07-27 09:35 pm (UTC)no subject
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