DLP in the Place To Be.

GOOD NEWS: In Victoria, the Greens have scored two upper house seats.

BAD NEWS: DLP have scored two upper house seats.

GOOD NEWS: Labor only has 19 out of 40 upper house seats – no majority.

BAD NEWS: DLP got in from Labor, People Power, FF, Liberal, and everyone else’s (except Democrats) preferences,

To all those Labor supporters who said any of the following:

• Labor is sorry its preferences elected a Family First candidate.
• It won’t happen again, we have changed tactics, moved on.
• You should forget about it. *these aren’t the droids you are looking for*
• Stop bashing Labor, etc etc.

.. to those people – thank you for embarrassing yourselves, and further validating Green voters.

From The Age:

So the Nationals dropped out. And their preferences, and those of the Liberals, also flowed on to the DLP.

Suddenly the scoreboard read:

DLP 62,000
Greens 34,600
Labor 34,400

OK, you might think, the Greens take the seat on Labor preferences. But no — Labor too had done a preference deal with the DLP, thinking it would go out early and help Labor over the line. Instead the final score was (more or less):

DLP 95,000
Greens 36,000.

Ultimately, it’s still a good outcome. If Labor ends up using the DLP (or Lib/Nats) to get legislation over the line because Greens refuse to, well, it’s only going to further highlight their regression. Alternatively, if the Greens force change, that’s awesome. Win win.

From Greg Barber: "Labor's preferences seem to have put right wing nutters into the Victorian Upper House. Labor voters will be very disappointed in the way the ALP bosses have directed their party's preferences."

Yes, he actually called them right wing nutters, what a freakin’ champ. Tellin' it like it is.

For all those 2% of voters who switched from Greens to Labor with the whole “THOSE GUYS ARE PREFERENCING LIBERALS!!11” thing, you.. you’ve got a bit of food on your face.. no, other side.. that’s it… I think it’s egg.

Seriously though, those guys must be majorly pissed off.