Comments on: Don’t fall for it

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 20:15:56 +0000

But the holding company has decided my employer doesn’t need an IT department…
I expect to be redundant by the end of the year.

I will admit though that the EU has nothing to do with it though.
The real problem is the abuse of Tier Two visas to bring in contractors from the Indian Subcontinent.

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 16:23:52 +0000

Yep, what we need are more bland technocrats who get stuff done with the minimum of fuss, and fewer Zaphod Beeblebox types. Make the elections about what stuff gets done and less like a glorified reality TV show.

By: Synthetase

Synthetase — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 15:55:37 +0000

Okay. Twelve is a pretty good majority in the Australian parliament, but we don’t have as many seats and by-elections as relatively rare.

Whatever happens, I really hope for your sake it doesn’t devolve into the revolving door of Australian politics. Five prime ministers in five years. We have an election next month (the PM couldn’t get some rubbish through the senate and threw his toys out of the pram, calling a double dissolution) and everyone’s thoroughly sick of the lot of them. In the last decade or so it’s turned into a bizarre cult of personality and become increasingly dysfunctional.

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 11:33:58 +0000

Cameron didn’t win with a large majority, just a majority of 12. Theoretically that’s only seven lost byelections’ worth. More significantly the Tories only got 37% of the popular vote. They don’t really have any kind of popular mandate.

It’s being said that the referendum pledge was an electoral ploy aimed at protecting the Tory flank against UKIP, and was to have been jettisoned in any post-election coalition agreement.

Cameron has badly misread the mood of the country; the referendum has become a lightning rod for years of pent-up frustration, and just as significantly given a voice to those systematically disenfranchised by the electoral system because they don’t live in marginal constituences.

By: Synthetase

Synthetase — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 09:55:44 +0000

I’ve missed something here. I don’t understand why the conservative party is divided over Cameron. Didn’t he lead them to victory in the last election? Didn’t they win a large parliamentary majority? Why are they suddenly taking a leaf out of Australian the political play-book and sharpening their knives?