Is it time?

Last night I went to Gleebooks to listen to election strategist extraordinaire Antony Green ‘in conversation” with Crikey’s Christian Kerr.

Christian was flogging his book, “Crikey’s Election guide”

The chattering classes packed the room so of course Sam and I were delighted to be among friends and even more so with the complimentary alcohol.

Is it time?, were one of the questions the men grappled with. Green noted that unlike the 2004 election, the polls this time have been very consistent – pointing to a Labor victory.

Both were very hesitant to predict an outcome and believed Howard still had the economy as his trump card. With successive interest rate rises and homes defaulting in the Hills district in NSW, who knows what can happen. Personally, I reckon It’s Time.

Some choice quotes from the evening:

From Antony....
“The shire is filled with people who have made it from Bankstown and over the Menai bridge, just so that they can get away from the wogs”
“If the Coalition loses Lindsay they would have truly lost the spiritual home of Howard’s battlers”
“John Howard's meaning of One Australia is One Wollstonecraft”

From Christian...
“All lower middle class people in Earlwood aspire to live on the North Shore. It must be nice for John Howard's family to know that their son lives near North Sydney station”
“Wentworth is a seat where the effluent meets the affluent. Turnbull will keep his seat simply because of own fabulousness,”

My catastrophe for the night was spilling red wine over my white trench coat from Cue. The MC from Gleebooks scolded me when I told her I didn't have nappy san at home.

"You must always have nappy san at home. It's the only way you can get rid of these stains," she said.

http://www.gleebooks.com.au/