Observations of council election voters

What have we learned from the recent Council elections?

By voting yes in the referendum the voters have expressed their disgust at the quality of councillors and believe that nine bad ones are better than 15.

By voting for Liberal candidates who remained very silent during the campaign it has demonstrated that all the “meet the candidates” meetings were a waste of time, that we ignore social media, radio and press and have demonstrated a distinct entitlement mentality rather than an enlightened one.

We have even voted back in by a large majority one candidate who agreed that many of the problems that exist in Gosford today are a result of his decisions as mayor when he was in office.

There appears to be a swing against Labor and Independents which may well be a general feeling in the community that we are unhappy with the current State and Federal Governments and their lack of action with the real issues we face today.

We have resigned ourselves to the fact that things will not improve so we may as well keep the old guard and surprisingly there may well be a feeling that an administrator is the preferred model.

Email, Sep 29,

Geoff Mitchell, Kariong