Goodbye and good riddance. I think two photographs summed up the Democrats downward political trajectory
The one with Meg Lees handshaking John Howard on the GST deal
The one of the purple-clad Goth Andrew Bartlett skydiving to earth on or near election day 2004.
I doubt whether political systems where the two major parties are pretty much in the centre of the spectrum, need to hand over the balance of power to a pack of faries at the bottom of the garden living in their own ideal world far removed from the political and social reality.
