In her short and cataclysmic career Freo MLA Adele Carles has never been accused of occupying too much of the moral or political high ground; however, her latest effort takes the cake. 

Carles has blamed Old King Col and the Libs because they are going to run a candidate in her seat at the next election. 

Let me run that past you again - a pollie is going crook because, in a fair, open and contested election - their win cannot be guaranteed! 

Excuse me?  Or, as the redhead from hell once said - Please explain?

What is this radical plan of the Libs – Who do they think they are?

Contesting elections? 

Is this pure evil or just what we do in democracies? 

It ain't rocket science folks:  no election = no democracy! 

That Carles doesn't understand this quite important democratic concept probably stems from her background with the Greens.  Almost exclusively Greens reside in the electorally sheltered upper houses of Parliaments and to get there they depend on grubby back room preference deals.

The Greens very survival depends on other peoples’ and parties’ votes being passed on to them via the preference system and it was much more than a normal backroom deal that Carles was seeking.  She wanted others to withdraw in order to minimize the competition. 

In business this sort of anti - competitive behavior is illegal.

Quite rightly, in this case there were no takers – Congratulations to the Libs

So Carles has spat the dummy and says she will not contest the next election. 

Oh dear, how sad - never mind! 

The poor attitude displayed over this issue needs little discussion and highlights everything that can go right and wrong with our political system. I hope that it is not so, but it would be a serious threat to our democracy if most or all of our pollies thought like this loser.  

We are not here to serve them - it is supposed to be the other way around, they exist to serve us. 

As for Carles - the best thing she can do is resign and get out of public life; anyone who is that scared of voters should not hold elected office. 

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In what I consider to be one of the most important political speeches of our time Joe Hockey had a lot to say about the sense of entitlement that abounds in the Western World.  He has been ridiculed, misquoted and maligned for raising it, but little demonstrates his point better than the announcement by Terry Waldron that he is considering special hospitality boxes on the boundary of WA’s new footy ground.

Even though they don’t have the dough, our Government is going to spend $700 million on a new footy ground.  The ground we have is unused nearly every day of the year; even on big days it is almost never full.  Last weekend the Eagles played North Melbourne and I was staggered at the number of empty seats, particularly in the corporate boxes!

Our Government has given us a mountain of debt, skills shortages, a mountain of debt, infrastructure shortages, a mountain of debt, poor roads, a mountain of debt and yet they still feel it necessary to build a new footy ground that almost all West Aussies will never set foot in. 

Even if people agree that building a taxpayer funded ground for one of the biggest, richest sporting organisations in the nation to use for around 22 days a year is a good thing to do, surely the recent announcement must be the step too far.

These special boxes closer to the game for the rich dicks who give money to footy clubs can only mean one thing and that is that the normal ticket buying non member taxpayer must be moved further back from the game.

WA has a population of around 2.2 million who have to pay for this ground and the two footy clubs who will use it have a combined membership of 94,000, the rest watch the game on television.  Well they can watch if they have pay TV!

All the revenue from Pay TV and other TV rights go to the AFL who is not paying for this ground – not bad if you can get it!  Get control of a game, then the government will line up to give you a stadium worth hundreds of millions of dollars!  Oh! AND the government will build the walkways AND railways AND roads AND provide the land AND the parks AND everything else the AFL think they need.  Even a prayer room AND bars AND restaurants AND toilets AND flash boxes you can sell AND a partridge in a pear tree.

AND then when this flash new stadium is all tired and old because no one has looked after it – our broke Government will do it all again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again!

AND you will pay again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again!

Oh Joe – what chance do you have?