Posted today
Dear Ms Beilby,
Thankyou for your letter of 30 September. I am pleased that my letter to the West Australian captured your attention, and that the Greens (WA) were interested in my point of view regarding flag burning.
I had at one point considered joining the Greens, but your party’s lack of direction on a number of key issues dissuaded me. For example, one of the Principles listed on your website is that “The Greens (WA) will work towards the ideal of one vote one value.” This is a noble principle and I commend you for it. Unfortunately it appears to be nothing more than empty rhetoric.
As I live in the State electorate of Kingsley (which has 27,949 electors), my vote is worth less than half of the vote of someone living in the Kimberley (12,797 electors). Rather than use the historic success of progressive parties in the Legislative Council to “work towards the ideal of one vote one value”, the Greens decided to maintain this outrageous and anti-democratic gerrymander.
Apparently the continued entrenchment of conservative rule in Western Australia is the price we have to pay for the ongoing employment of the hopeless Robin Chapple and Dee Margetts. This is a cynical demonstration of the Greens’ desire to put shallow party-political interests above the fundamental democratic rights of the Western Australian people.
I hope you reconsider your position before it is too late. Then again, it doesn’t really matter, because you’ve only lost half a vote.
Yours in disgust,
Robert Corr
I reckont that’s pretty rude, frankly. It wasn’t the policy makers who sent you the letter, it was some members. It wasn’t their fault. Sure, mention OVOV and everything, but disgust?
Nah, they deserve it, the hypocrites
I would have sent them a dog turd.
Hear Hear Yobbo and Steve. I got a letter from the Greens a while back after writing a letter claiming (outrageously) that indefinite incarceration wasn’t a luxury. Somehow my view on a single issue convinced these folks (who were as bad as Barnett and The West when it came to whipping up hysteria around the Premium Property Tax) that I would be interested in joining their party.
Bah humbug.
By the way, I was walking past Anzac House on my way to work the other day and noticed they have two big brand-spanking new flags – and they’re looking good.
Nice one Rob.
If only rigidly held beliefs could be renovated as easily.