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Learning nothing from their humiliation in Prahran, Greens will march on

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/victoria/learning-nothing-from-their-humiliation-in-prahran-greens-will-march-on-20250209-p5lapq.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed

This is an odious article.

The only party that still has the tinted glasses on is the Greens.

If they were a party with serious aspirations to govern, the Greens would be mortified by the message delivered to them by Prahran voters.

At the 2022 state election, more than 10,000 people voted for Labor in Prahran. In Saturday’s byelection, the Labor Party didn’t stand a candidate. This meant there were roughly 10,000 votes up for grabs.

It is reasonable to assume that these voters, having supported Labor at the last election, hold to basic Labor values. Yet none of them, in the absence of a Labor candidate, was willing to doss down with the Greens.

Some of them knocked on the door of Liberal candidate Rachel Westaway and nearly 4000 parked their vote with Tony Lupton. He is a former Labor MP who believes the Greens, since the October 7, 2023, attacks in southern Israel, have fuelled a hateful protest movement and inflamed antisemitism in the community.

For all this mass migration of votes in Prahran, the Greens primary support barely budged. Angelica Di Camillo’s share of the vote marginally shrank, and her party’s 10-year hold on a hip, inner-city electorate came crashing down.

Hmmm, now lemme thunk about this just a wee bit. I wonder what might happen if the bloated entitled two major parties, & acolyte organisations of theirs, & much of the MSM, were to run sustained campaigns of misreporting about & demonisation of The Greens, over years? What might that disreputable behaviour do to credulous &/or somewhat disengaged voters?

Gosh, such a puzzle. 🙄🤦‍♀️

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