Elections

[mrph]

The results look pretty good, from my point of view. Blair gets a kick in the teeth, the BNP get almost nothing. The Conservatives get a bit of a boost, but not enough to suggest that they'll walk straight back into government next year... and the Liberal Democrats also get a bit of a boost.

Was pleased to see that we didn't have a BNP candidate standing in the local elections, too. They did field candidates in the Euro elections though, and I'm hoping they get nothing...

Comments

Re: Scared

[ruth-lawrence.livejournal.com]

Yup. I'm scared too. I'm worried that votes will go, probably via our preference system, to our right wing as a result of Labor's homophobic behaviour, especially in inner-city seats Labor needs to win to gain govt, where the govt person is pro-queer (there are six or eight of these).

At least we have viable minor parties who are likely to support us, but they can't hold against a homophobic bill in
the Senate if Labor supports it.

At least our Labor party opposes our involvement in Iraq.

And at least our loony, racist party seems dead (except possibly in benighted Queensland).

We queers are over a barrel though. Iraq is so bad, we can't vote in the interest of our community, that is for pro-queer candidates regardless of other affiliation.

I wrote stiff letters to assorted politicians, for all the good it's likely to have done. Maybe I should write an article and see if a newpaper will print it, after the election.