Clear message is 'neither preferred'

The message is loud and clear.

It has been out there for quite some time now, and often stated by one of the Peninsula News' advertisers, Mr Edward James: "Neither party preferred".

The next thing to be strongly confirmed relates to the perceived integrity, or otherwise of local government.

Mr James always tells it how it is.

Politicians and the ambitious should take heed of his communications.

For now, a hung parliament sends the message to those who enter politics with egocentric or hidden agendas rather than for the more open purpose of betterment for this wonderful country.

Hidden agenda players, some of whom I suspect would not possibly make the cut in a real job will now be a thing of the past and no longer will we the taxpayers be paying dearly for these egocentrics filling in their allotted times in Canberra by their kill-off of hours with mindless bickering and negative griping about the opposition, policies and personalities.

Instead, they now have to demonstrate their ability with a very practical approach to getting down to the business at hand of running the country.

What a novelty for some of them.

Real work.

What a change.

A hung parliament will have all those parliamentary seats filled with workers, regardless of their original intent, and now very eager to prove that they know what it is all about in the real world rather than the past regime of pushing party policies to the exclusion of things of greater urgency and importance to the nation, the things that concern all good Australians.

Now at long last, we the voters have been given a break.

Those who do find themselves in the saddle in Canberra, contrary to past Parliaments will have to be much more professional, upstanding, honest, credible and creative in their presentation and methodology of political service to this nation.

Now we voting taxpayers will be seeing great commonsense and intelligence prevail for the better good of us all, the nation, and yes, let's move forward!

Every good wish to those who did gain seats in this recent election and particularly congratulations to the independents and Green candidates, you are just the fresh wind of change that is needed.

Please may you oversee dignified and upstanding changes to the management of this great nation.

Letter, 23 Aug 2010 Zoe Russell, Umina