DODGY: Northern Metro Count Still In Doubt

ALP strategists are convinced now that the VEC has made a serious error in the northern metropolitan count. It appears that there might be an issue with the calculation of Democrats preferences.

UPDATE:
VEC sources tell the OC they have hired hundreds of people for re-counting tomorrow although we understand that they propose to direct these to the close contests in Western region and western metropolitan.

Interestingly also there appears to be a strange situation in the northern metropolitan seat where there are 10000 more votes for the Liberals in the upper house than in the lower house seats. If confirmed this is a very strange phenomenon or may reinforce Labor's argument that there has been some procedural defect in the count in the seat.

The Liberals are pushing for a recount in Southern Metropolitan although have conceded defeat so it promises to continue to be very tense at the VEC while they attempt to explain some very strange phenomena.

What a mess!

The Age is predictably hacking into the DLP, although no less so than Greens MBA militant Greg Barber who has described them as "right-wing nutters". Barber is clearly more from the Joe Stalin school of coalition building which posits that Brutality Breeds Respect. I'm not sure the two DLP Legislative Councillors will respond well to Barber's insults.

Barber of course comes from a party that:

■ Threatened to ban companion animals for people who weren't registered breeders;

■ Wants the state to provide free heroin to addicts in spite of inconclusive medical evidence about the efficacy of doing that;

■ Seeks to ban the construction of new dams;

■ Believes nature should take its course with bushfires in National Parks;

■ Wants to give the vote to sixteen year old mallrats;

■ Wants to close Hazelwood power station;

■ Aims to spread their own four day working week for the same pay; and

■ Would stop the construction of new roads regardless of need.

The good folk at the DLP have set the record straight telling a sceptical and hateful Age newspaper that they are basically a moderate Labor party that is avowedly pro-life and anti-drugs. Just like a very big number of Labor supporters. If there are two elected, they will no doubt do a good job, and are certainly much less extreme than the Greens whose policies listed above represent dangerous experiments with weirdness.

Game on.