Buffoonery Works

In the recent 2010 election, the Liberal Member for North Sydney achieved an 8.55% swing to him and got 64.06% of the two candidate preferred vote. Because North Sydney is a hotbed of Liberal Party activism - or perhaps alternatively because it's two-thirds full of slow thinking rusted-ons ;-)

The Liberal Member for North Sydney is Joe Hockey.

Yes Virginia - the same Joe Hockey who told us that the Coalition *costings* had been audited by one of the largest and most respected accounting firms in the nation.

But as Peter Martin points out here - "Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey was not telling the truth when he claimed days ahead of the election the Coalition's costings had been *audited* by a big Australian accountancy firm".

I personally don't care much for what Joe says - but as a North Sydney resident I am *really pissed* that he lied to the people AND got a serious swing TO him.

All I can say is that this is a sad indictment of the quality of the "thinking organs" that are attached to the voters of North Sydney.

Clearly buffoonery works - which explains a lot about why the Monk is rampaging around like a dipstick.