Decisions Are made by those that turn up
With all due respect to QLDPCS, new to the blogroll on the right, I disagree with him concerning boycotting the Local Council Election on March 15th.
Mrs Rebellion and I are mad keen fans of the West Wing. Despite its absolutely obscene left wing leanings, it is still a fascinating watch and the title to the post is a comment made by Martin Sheen playing a fictitious president who would and could never actually be elected.
As much as the whole Amalgamation issue is set in stone, no reasonable or rational person has to agree with it or like it, but they do have to accept it. In saying that, they also have to do everything in their power to make sure that their feelings are known and acted upon. Simply not turning up may be an attractive option, but it won’t actually achieve anything. All that will mean is that those that will turn up and elect the new council, will be those that are politically motivated to support the ALP, or those that simply don’t care enough to not go. Either way, we get a council that will not go out of its way to oppose the State Government in the amalgamation issue that has been so obviously and vocally opposed by the people that it will affect.
It is not a matter of simply not turning up to vote, or BoVo - Boycott Voting, the second part to it is filling in the Notice of Voter’s Veto and mailing it to Bligh. Again, the details are on my site.
Comment by QLDPCS | February 29, 2008