Spinopsys

Michael Duffy places an each way bet

Posted March 25th, 2007 in The Desk

Attached at the bottom of a piece on compulsory voting, Michael Duffy, right wing commentator and serial apologist for all things involving motorways and suburbia surprises us with this bit of confusion.

Actually, I’m looking forward to voting today. Often there was no one I would have wanted to vote for anyway, but now there is.

Developer donations to political parties are corrupting and distorting our democracy, and I intend to vote for the Greens because they oppose this and have put so much effort into exposing it, not least through their excellent website democracy4sale.org.

It’s true the Greens also have some deplorable policies on the environment, but none of us is perfect.

For the same reason I’ll be voting for Save Our Suburbs in the upper house. The group’s president, Tony Recsei, has done more than anyone to alert us to the horrors and intellectual shoddiness of urban consolidation.

So Duffy votes for a party that not only wants to clean up the environment and democracy and embraces a renewed urbanism, but also a anti-urbanist group with a host of nutty NIMBY ideas; one that advocates for the continued expansion of suburbia and the endless roads that go with it; something that big time developers would love. Talk about an each way bet.

I love the fetid smell of modern democracy in the morning.

Elsewhere: Conservatroids Tim Blair and Andrew Bolt are also confused by Duffys Green vote. Apparently they aren’t too worried about his vote for the Save our Suburbs mob.

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