THE DONKEY VOTE

It’s amusing to watch the Coalition as they slowly exhaust every angle possible to paint an interest rate rise as a positive thing.

In fact the entire affair is a cocktail of deceit and contradiction, but many take their word as gospel. I’m personally pretty dirty on the Coalition on how they attempted to spin the inflation figures.

Mr Howard’s rising interest rate masterplan

I’ve really had enough of Coalition manipulation and oversimplication of the Australia economy.

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Don’t you just love those people pretending to be ordinary citizens on the blogs of news articles? But all these really are are stooges, employees, associates or tragics of certain political parties.

I chuckle when they say things like…

“Anyway, that’s it, they can’t be trusted, and my vote goes to Liberals now, at least they keep their promises. By Lee of Mortgage Belt “

It’s like they are some sort of swing voter who has had some divine realisation.

Pretty much the majority of radio and television have the grubby finger prints of Coalition stooges all over it. Online polls are less effected than those of other mediums, but that is because less people over 55 years know what the internet is.

It is amazing how all these results all miraculously defy Galaxy, Morgan, Nielsen and Newspoll. Astounding really. I wonder what is to it?

I get jollies out of Coalition supporter desperation, I think a lot of people out there do.

At least I don’t pretend to be a swing voter. I’m a regular on news article blogs, but I actually either discuss the article or use it as an opportunity to pay some people out or have a laugh.

God help me if Labor loses the election, I’m going to have a tsunami of bad karma headed my way…

I have contigency plans, exile is involved…

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The latest Galaxy poll is out today in News Ltd papers.

And it shows Labor increasing its lead over the last Galaxy Poll a fortnight ago.

Labor now leads the Coalition 54/46 TTP.

PRIMARY VOTE
Coalition - 42%
Labor - 45%

TWO PARTY PREFERRED
Coalition - 46%
Labor - 54%

Other questions put to the sample include..

Do you agree or disagree that John Howard knowingly misled the Australian  public when he said he would keep interest rates low?

If interest rates rise again in the near future , which of the following do you believe is mainly to blame?

Which of these best describes how much an influence the election campaign will be on the way you vote?

For the answers to these questions click this link to the Galaxy Poll.

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I’m away for a couple of days and Brad, Yak and Sheldon don’t even bother to do any Daily Wrap ups. How is anyone supposed to know what is going on relying on their bias, inconsistant and usually unreadable accounts.

So here goes, Donkey is back and here is what happened on Day 21!

Both Kevin Rudd and John Howard were in Sydney NSW trying to win some votes with some major policy announcement.

Kevin Rudd and Labor released a pre-emptive policy designed to capitalise on any likely increase in interest rates. Labor has committed $500million to setting up tax breaks for first home buyers to save up for a deposit on their first home.

John Howard and the Coalition fire of a huge infrastructure salvo with the announcement of a whopping $10.5billion for Australian roads.

The package, most of which has already been budgeted for under the AusLink program, allows for $3 billion in Sydney, $5.2 billion in south-east Queensland and $2.45 billion in Victoria.

 Kevin Rudd hit out at the policy.

“On the eve of an election, Mr Howard backflips to the tune of $1.1 billion on top of the $2.3 billion he’s putting into the Goodna Bypass and expects us to believe that his roads policy is credible?” he said.

“Give us a break.”

John Howard battens down the hatches for an interest rate rise and starts to spin it.

But Donkey still remembers him and Peter Costello saying it was all going to be all right and reassured us that everything was normal by quoting the wrong data.

The Daily Telegraph reports that “Voters aren’t ready to blame John Howard should interest rates go up this week - despite Labor’s best efforts.”

John Howard didn’t let the Peter Garrett assault go off the boil, intensifying his attacks on the Labor Party by revealing that another journalist, Charles Wooley can atest to further Garrett sheninigans.

John Howard on the ABC’s Insiders.

“It’s not the first time evidence has emerged that he’s said this,” he said.

“You will find Charles Wooley saying, in effect, you all know that Peter Garrett is saying to Greens and even to some journos, ‘Mate, don’t worry, what we say now and what we do in government will be two very different things’.

“Charles Wooley did not regard what Peter Garrett had been saying to his friends in the Green movement and even to some journalists as a joke.

“And Charles Wooley himself said this. So you’ve got the evidence, the testimony if you like, of two journalists … and what is interesting is that Peter Garrett has not denied having said it.

“I dont think it was a joke, Steve Price didn’t think it was a joke, you don’t joke about things like this.

“This is dynamite because it reveals duplicity, it reveals a double standard, it demonstrates that the Labor party has been saying one thing to try and calm everybody down.

“But Peter Garrett is a radical, we all know that.”

Then there was Brad’s favourite announcement, Labor giving $8million towards the upgrading and refurbishment of Campbelltown Stadium, one of the traditional suburban homes of the Wests Tigers national rugby league club.

Policies and Media Statements.

LABOR

Federal Labor’s Low Tax First Home Saver Accounts - Larger Deposits And Higher National Savings

Investing In Water Efficient Irrigation In Western Australia - $6.6 Million For Gascoyne Irrigation Pipeline Project

COALITION

Our 2020 Plan for Sydney’s Transport Future

Our 2020 Plan for Victoria’s Transport Future

Our 2020 Plan for South East Queensland’s Transport Future

A lot of other stuff probably happened, but how am I supposed to know?

I am just a donkey.

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