Quote Originally Posted by GoldfishMan View Post
Oh yes, it's great that you brought up this point. When you can comfortably argue that "the opposition would've done the exact same thing", then what does the Labor Party stand for? What are its principles or pillars if it would just do what the other party does?

Isn't Labor pro... Well, labour? Pro the working class, screw big business. Leave the pandering to big business wishes to the LNP.

Yet here they are, bringing in record immigration, fodder for businesses to lower their wage bills. Surely you can't expect the local workforce not to be affected by doing this?

They might as well stop calling themselves Labor because they clearly do not stand for the working class.

EDIT: I didn't say "money we don't have". You got me confused with someone else.
When did I say this? "the opposition would've done the exact same thing" I'm actually saying it was the LNP that increased immigration and now Labor is planning to reduce it after the surge back after covid. and if you want to talk about Labor standing up for the worker, they just made it illegal to pay labour hire workers less for the same job, criminalised wage theft and criminalised workplace manslaughter.

And yes you're right, someone else said "money we don't have" but it was still the reason for my bringing up a surplus. Which doesn't mean I agree we should be prioritising a surplus.