While I understand much of the angst towards politicians, it is far from simplistic as those that espouse voting along party lines, in fact voting along party lines basically creates most of the problems they rally against.
In my own electorate for the first time ever we have a female non-conservative incumbent. I'm not really a party line voter, and I might be indifferent to Andrews or Guy or both in the wider picture, but for the first time in years I have someone local to myself actually doing stuff and getting it done in our electorate. This comes after years and years of a procession of systematically and mindlessly voted in conservative candidates who basically behaved as placeholders for the next, making few mistakes because they basically did very little or nothing at all!
There isn't a chance in hell I'll vote out someone locally who is actually working for me no matter which party they are from, just to get "a someone" out of some remote big chair who's opinion I read in a newspaper and disagree with, I ain't that stupid!
Finally, the continual anti-party negative whinging in the absence of discussing performance and actions of individuals, just makes the whingers sound more "Moving Pictures rather than Mother Teresa!"
In my own electorate for the first time ever we have a female non-conservative incumbent. I'm not really a party line voter, and I might be indifferent to Andrews or Guy or both in the wider picture, but for the first time in years I have someone local to myself actually doing stuff and getting it done in our electorate. This comes after years and years of a procession of systematically and mindlessly voted in conservative candidates who basically behaved as placeholders for the next, making few mistakes because they basically did very little or nothing at all!
There isn't a chance in hell I'll vote out someone locally who is actually working for me no matter which party they are from, just to get "a someone" out of some remote big chair who's opinion I read in a newspaper and disagree with, I ain't that stupid!
Finally, the continual anti-party negative whinging in the absence of discussing performance and actions of individuals, just makes the whingers sound more "Moving Pictures rather than Mother Teresa!"
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"