RingoGaSuki said:
fordy said:
My thoughts on the outcomes of the election:
Cons:
- Listening to a blubbering Scott Morrison for another 3 years
- Environment will suffer. Coal will be pushed and subsidised to keep up with renewables.
- Reassured Murdoch that he is indeed a kingmaker
- My electorate of Farrer showed that, despite being so displeased of things, they're still happy to stick with the same candidate.
Pros:
- No more of the wrecker (Tony Abbott). Conservative Liberals put on notice.
- Clive got 0 senate seats. that gives him a LOT less leverage over the LNP. As you can see, he's already trying to claim that the Liberals were screwed without him, hoping to get some favours done.
- If the Liberals fabricated a phony forecast surplus, they'll be held accountable to it now. No use blaming Labor, as their usual tactic
- Opens potential for Labor to be lead by a more likeable candidate.
- Our neighbouring electorate of Indi made history by electing another independent from a retiring independent. Already putting pressure on the Morrison government for those election promises, too
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I'm pretty much having the same conclusions. This was the LNP's dream outcome, returned, with a majority of all things, and their chief detractor, Abbott is gone. I would note that the other more conservative libs, like Dutton were in fact given increased majorities, so I don't know if they feel on notice or not.
My electorate of Mallee (don't actually live there, but that's where the family home is) also showed that it doesn't matter how corrupt, dysfunctional or incompetent the Nationals are, they'll return them anyway. Unbelievable.
Dark_Lord_2008 said:
How on earth can you deliver both Budget Surplus and deliver Tax cuts? You need higher taxes to create Surplus. Tax cuts will reduce the Budget Surplus because of less tax revenue. Sounds like ScoMo has no idea about how economics or business works and just uses rhetoric.
If your revenue is decreased, your profit must be reduced. There is no way you can increase profit with lower revenue |
Already proven extremely wrong with the removal of penalty rates. Not only did employers not hire more people, they cut staff. Tax revenue is down, debt is up and we're in a recession already.
I'm glad that the LNP will be at least held accountable for their recession and the ensuing chaos and austerity, but I don't have any faith that they'll be hurt by it. The Murdoch media will defend them to the death.
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I believe that before this election, Dutton's electorate of Dickson was fairly marginal, and at this election Dutton got a smaller swing toward him than the rest of QLD toward the LNP, so anything is possible once that swing comes back.
The LNP wont be able to explain their recession, they'll just blame Labor. It's worked for them extremely well, so far, to the pain of the more sane voters...
