Tuesday, November 06, 2007
PAULINE, PATRICE, AND PHILLIP
Phillip Adams on preferencing:
For minor parties, for obscure independents and for new contenders, the preferencing game is often the only hope of feeling like a player …
New entities such as Family First or the Climate Change Coalition (for whom my partner, Patrice Newell, is standing as a NSW Senate candidate) or fading parties such as the Democrats must despair.
Or they can play the preferencing game themselves. Scroll down at the above link for these comments, from the ALP’s Luke Foley:
Of course, there is nothing surprising about fringe right wing parties doing preference deals with Pauline Hanson and her ilk.
What is mind-boggling this time around is that a party that declares itself to be “progressive” and makes much of its moral virtue, the Climate Change Coalition, has done a deal with Ms Hanson and her party.
In Queensland, the CCC preference Pauline at number 5 out of 65 candidates! She returns the favour by preferencing the CCC lead candidate at number 5 also … The deal is replicated in NSW, with Pauline’s party and the Climate Change Coalition preferencing each other before both of the major parties.
We at the ALP shall now refer to the CCC as Pauline Hanson’s Climate Change Coalition.
It’s the creepiest Blair’s Law moment yet. Further on this from the Pollbludger, who notes that CCC shiftiness could deny the Greens a Senate seat: “I hope Patrice Newell has a good time explaining that one to her fellow travellers on the arts-luvvie cocktail party circuit.”