20 Nov Hold Your Own Plebiscite™
Australia recently held a plebiscite to gain public opinion on Same Sex Marriage. The result – an overwhelming yes!
The next step was to pass the bill into law. Only 4 politicians had the guts to vote no. While they are obviously on the wrong side of history that’s not my concern today.
As a politician, if your constituents vote a particluar way you should probably listen to them as you are their respresentative.
I would admit a representative could make a vote-of-conscience if their constituency was equally divided on the issue.
Enter the non-honourable Tony Abbott
Abbots was a vocal opponent of Marriage Equality because his (blind) belief structure is devoid of any rational interrogation.
He publicly campaigned against marriage equality. 75% of his constituents disagreed with him.
When it came time to pass the motion he refused to vote the way his constituents voted and didn’t have the guts to vote at all.
Tony Abbott was one of those. He had spent all day in the chamber arguing passionately about why he wasn’t satisfied with the bill as it stood.
But when it came time to vote — and he could have voted against it — he made a gutless lurch for the door.
Mr Abbott’s weak act didn’t have anything to do with democracy, it was a protest against it. And history won’t forget that.
Makes you wonder why he’s even in politics at all if he doesn’t believe in the democratic process…Oh wait… He isn’t.
So we created a Hold Your Own Plebiscite!
To hasten his retirement we created our own plebiscite and dropped in the letterboxes in his Parliamentary region. You can download it below. Or you can download a blank one for any plebiscite you want to create
At the following election he was booted out and ended his career. Unfortunately with a gold handshake that doesn’t match the progress he failed to achieve in his 25ish years in Warringah.
Ta Ta Tony.
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