No, dude, you are comprehensively wrong lol 
Trust me on this one.
Remember when you said Latham was a lunatic and wouldn't get elected? I told you he'd near doubled their popularity, and he had. He has. Rod Roberts is still a chance to be elected...
Benny Casey got 13% of the vote in his seat, so you really have NFI
Wrong again
. I said "ON could potentially win two seats at best" in the NSW upper house as the quota was just 4.55%. You were the one posting a
statewide poll boasting that ON's support had doubled to 8% and would increase beyond that by the time of the NSW election. In the end, ON's statewide polling was 1% in the lower house and 6% in the upper house. Cherry picking certain seats that ON didn't get within daylight of winning anyhow doesn't dispute that
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You also claimed ON and the SFF wouldn't both field candidates in seats where one of them had a strong chance yet SFF won Murray against ON and the majors. Half of the seats contested by ON involved the SFF. However, it's the SFF and independents that are winning the anti-establishment vote especially in the bush where they are winning lower house seats unlike ON.
20 years ago ON ran in every NSW seat, polled 8% statewide, and scored 15-20% in about a dozen seats. They've never reached those "heights" since. They have always been a fringe party and always will be. Latham is a perfect fit as a bitter old loose cannon
. He won't care though as being nearly 60 the next 8 years will set up a handy retirement fund for him by the time his term is up. Playing the fear card and bagging migrants to attract the fringe vote is financially beneficial under our political system. Hanson now has interests in 4 properties. So much for being a battler that isn't like the major parties
. It's all about gaining cheap votes for self-interest at the expense of slagging off minorities to creat fear and social division
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If Latham was/is so concerned about city congestion then why didn't he and his generation do their job and maintain existing PT while building the transport infrastructure (especially rail) that should have already been built by now
. Nah it's easier to deflect his own failures and blame the newbies instead
. Yeah it's immigrants of today's fault that Sydney ripped up its tram network that was 3-times the capacity of Melbourne's and which in the eastern suburbs is now costing hundreds of millions to rebuild just a couple of lightrail routes. Of course, if Latham blamed his own generation and older it wouldn't get him votes. Easier politically to slag minorities
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