Thursday, October 22, 2009

The *blues* and boat people

Some of you will have noticed how Malcolm and some of the other members of the *blue* team have been bleating on about the "boat people" and how the supposed current influx of them is a direct result of our government's *slack, lax and inapropriate* immigration policy.

It's interesting because Possum has done some clever analysis here on whether it's the "pull" or "push" factors that are driving this - a must read for those who can.

The truth is that it's the environment that the "boat people" are trying to escape from rather than the environment that they are trying to escape to that is driving these movements.

In other words, things are so bad at home that they will risk their lives to find somewhere else to live.

But its the *numbnuts* in the *blue* team and sadly also Malcolm who are trying to suggest that all of this is due to some imagined *hopelessly dark* policy of our government.

The thing is that these *blues* have nothing worthwhile to contribute.

And they are doing it because they know that there is a smallish subset of our community - fuelled by an opportunistic media - who are so thick, so dumb, so uninformed, so racist and so bogan that they will lap it up and cheer the *blues* on.

They hope that the temporary support of these people will somehow improve the *blues* abysmal polling.

Well they won't - all it really does is diminish the respect that thinking Australian's have for the *blues* version of "Opposition".

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