Level playing field

I was handing out how-to-vote cards at a Tweed Heads booth last Saturday and it was pointed out to me by another booth worker  there was deceitful signage used by a party using a photograph of its candidate without the  name of the the political party he represented.
It is a pretty low act for any party in a Democracy to attempt to deceive the voters in an election; particularly at the  voting booths on election day. There should, on the day, be as much as possible, a level playing field.
I was informed the suspect signage was used by the party as a desperate attempt to win the donkey vote. Fortunately, the New South Wales voters across the State were not ‘donkeys’ and delivered a good whipping to the former  government.  If that suspect signage manifested the chicanery of the losing party–they deserved all they got.
But not wanting to sound too harsh; we should spare com-miserations for the faithful members whose party lost, feeling sorely right now and in the  following weeks in the  period of the post mortem, as happens with most parties at post -election time, when heads will roll. We should also  congratulate the new Premier whose conciliatory success as the Leader of the LNP, (often factionally divided) brought New South Wales a fresh start in what will be a giant clean-up of corruption, maladministation and croneyism. It was also pleasing to see Mr O’Farrell deciding to remove the generous perks for many who like to think they can bleed the taxpayer dry. One potential recipient, the deposed Premier Kristina Kenneally, may have been a bit surpised, but we should spare some praise for her tenacity during the period when her Labor Party was diminished and heading for
the ropes.

Warren James