I refer to the article by R K Crosby Joyce confirms One Nation switch as staff depart & community patience hardens
I concur that Barnaby’s political manoeuvring has consigned the electorate to irrelevance, just as his inactivity over twelve (12) years has done little, if anything, to improve the lives of New England voters. Indeed, the needs of the voters were irrelevant compared to the behaviour of the elected representative.
Since his election, the main growth in the electorate has been the economic and social stagnation. Even the flow of federal funds for infrastructure improvement & maintenance has dried up; think the Tenterfield By Pass funded from the 2013 Gillard Labor Budget but slashed by Abbott (likely as payback) when he heard that Windsor had retired. Barnaby was reported as laughing, and has done nothing to replace that essential funding to make the Tenterfield CBD more than a fatal accident waiting to happen.
Meanwhile, the killer Bolivia Hill upgrade and the Scone CBD By Pass have been completed from the same tranche of federal funding and now benefit the voters. But wait; there was the Telecom communications tower located on a billionaire fan’s property that provides a rental income to trickle down into the isolated community.
When has it been any different?? Barnaby has always put his personal ambitions before the best interests of the voters who elected him. Cover-ups are a speciality, allegations of sexual harassment, playing away from home until caught by pregnancy, withholding health information that may impact election results. Essentially nothing positive has been done!!
How many thinking business persons would employ a stockman, clerk or labourer, who sat in the shed while others did the work and contributed nothing to the common wealth except boosting the income of every pub that they passed ….. for 12 years??
I am reminded that the defection of Torbay from Independent to National$ certainly proved the point that betraying New England voter trust for personal gain was unpopular, and likely fatal politically if ever tested at an election.
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