Conservatives as thick as 2 short planks on the environment

When you hear the carelesscrap that some conservatives produce on the subject of the environment, you do wonder whether they can win the next election.


Our new  conservative Premier (Ted )only this week offering to donate more trees to urban areas.
By using the word" trees", the Libs missed the opportunity to bring thinking people with them . "Shrubs ,habitat  native veg (even ) "would have been better . Not the dumbstupidity of "TREES"(trees being objects of worship, these new brooms aren't down to earth enough to realize that trees on small blocks don't fit and infact helped kill 180 people at Marysville who also didn't accept that biodiversity is fine provided  that it protects SOMETHING (many of our native trees go off like firecrackers with wicks as long as a house is wide). move on and be ahead of the greens in the game !

THE PROBLEM
City based cynicsm,environmental tokenism  and "market will fix everything" nonsense is at the heart of it. Confusion in Nats about whether /what sort of governmnet planning they would support doesn't help .(esp Walsh and the old guard )
The conservatives need to learn how to say NO (avoiding the children in charge scenario that now hangs over them too).  Does not Peter Ryan realize that without credible backing for ENV senior ministers will continue to lack credibility and risk their right to office ?

Get some decent advisers !!!!use the words habitat plants or "design advice"something not so dull and dusted Something that will give the Public service PS something to do other than sing silly old tree choruses in church.-something thats already driven the best PS OUT of the system.

The current confusion and "free for all" WILL NOT protect rural people from the ravages of ignorant city talkers from insisting on THEIR solutions for the country.Clearly the conservatives from the old guard don't REALLY get why independents are a growing force in the country!!!
CLEARLY the ONLY OPTION for conservatives is NOT"in no government" but stronger,smaller and much more locally accountable REGIONAL government . Not 3rd tiers like CMAs , or dumb dumping of responsibility onto Shires ,who will operate only as candles in the real winds of politics and the solid ground of env competence ..