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Oh, give me a break	May. 17th, 2009 @ 11:01 am

Mr Barnett described the poll question as “unnecessarily complex” and said he believed West Australians would not have to go back to the polls on the question for at least another decade.

1) I'm sorry, what?

This was the question: Are you in favour of daylight saving being introduced in Western Australia by standard time in the State being advanced one hour from the last Sunday in October 2009 until the last Sunday in March 2010 and in similar fashion for each following year?

That question is not too complex, that question lays out the terms of the referendum. And hardly anyone is going to read the damn question anyway, because EVERYONE IN THE ENTIRE DAMN STATE knows full bloody well that the question is: Do you want Daylight Saving Time in WA? Yes or No? Don't imply that people will be voting No because they're too stupid to understand the question.

2) Oh, for fuck's sake, back to the polls on this in another decade? This was the FOURTH FUCKING TIME ALREADY, and the margin is looking like being WIDER THIS TIME THAN LAST TIME, and for the love of God GET OVER IT AND STOP TRYING. The majority of Western Australian people DO NOT WANT DST, now SHUT THE HELL UP ABOUT IT.

One of the arguments this time was that a whole generation had never had a chance to vote on it. Well, guess what - we did, and the margin against got wider, because DST is an antiquated concept that may have some validity in countries like England but doesn't have any here, and if we have to have this fucking argument again I demand at least another generation's worth of time first because we've HAD OUR CHANCE TO VOTE ON IT and we FUCKING SAID NO, okay?

There is no AMBIGUITY on this. It's a clearly-defined question. Everyone's talked about it, everyone's been subjected to this shit for the last three years, and the ballot only gave us options of YES or NO (or spoiling the ballot, realistically). Everyone was legally required to vote, so no citizen was left out - there's a reason we don't have Get Out The Vote initiatives in this country. FUCKING DROP IT ALREADY.

Current Mood: really damn sick of DST