Liberal Party Facebook ad draws fire for linking border protection and crime
A Facebook advertisement posted by the Federal Liberal Party, which links the issues of border protection and crime in Western Sydney, has drawn hundreds of critical comments since being posted yesterday morning.
Featuring a crime scene tape against a black background, the ad highlights the recent spate of shootings in Western Sydney and asks: “if Labor can’t even control our borders, then how can they control street crime in our suburbs?”
At the time of posting, the advertisement has received hundreds of comments and shares, many criticising the political party linking Federal issue of border protection with the state issue of police and law enforcement.
Many of the social media users have also sought to highlight that policing and crime issues are managed by the Liberal state government of Barry O’Farrell.
If the Liberal Party can’t control crime on the streets of Western Sydney, how will they manage to control the borders of Western Australia!
My canary has just been eaten. The cat is looking pretty smug. But I still reckon it’s Julia Gillard’s fault.
if Western Sydney is solidly Liberal as claimed, and is riddled with crime as the LNP says under a state Liberal government…well Lord help us!
The problem with the Liberal Party is that they believe in what they are saying. Which is really strange as none of the facts fit with their utterances.
I love the JG comment ‘My canary was eaten. The cat looks smug…..and It’s ALL JULIAS’ FAULT! haha!
The boats will never be stopped! They will always come.
If the LIBS get in…. they will be Tony’s boats!
How will he stop them?
Border protection and crime linked? Okay, let’s look at that. Are crimes being committed in the detention centres? Have there been any serious crimes committed in those centres? Is arriving by boat without papers when arriving at the staging point, Indonesia WITH papers happening? Are cashed up boat people jumping the queue before thousands of other passport holders can be accepted as genuine?
Digest that for a while. Now, do some research and see if recent arrivals are over represented in our prison system.
Once you’ve answered all of the above you are in an informed position to answer the question.
Crime doesnt start as soon as a political party wins office , Labor did their best over 10 years and here is the fruit to prove it.
under labor we have open borders and our country has lost all respect and dignity. shame, sad alp shame 100%
Labor and The Greens policies have successfully filled every Australian community with of guns and drugs. So how is that the fault of the state governments?
From the same party page which brought us ‘600 illegal boat arrivals under labour’.
Unaccountable for untruths. Racially inflammatory and misses many opportunities to target process, efficiency, inequity and broader questions of immigration.
I can only hope a higher standard if/when September rolls on.
A crazy red neck ad promoting fear and division for a political outcome.
Facebook, in may ways the invention of the devil, is just another diversionary device for the politicians, just another blob of yellow and white to throw in the scrambled eggs of political fare.
What do we have before us come election time? On one side, a government consisting of a party in crisis, one that should never have been allowed to govern by sheer weight of numbers (or the lack of it) but struggled on at the whim of a peahen of a prime minister who was so determined to be the top *bitch, that she buddied up with the most unlikely of bedfellows, just to pull the numbers. This after a back stabbing exercise to usurp the perceived top job of first among equals; but where and who are the equals?
On the other side, we have a divided party, a group made up of non party loyalists, who have been drawn together and bleached by osmosis into the pale army who assemble under the Guidon of uncertain colours.
They went for a charismatic look in leader, but he proved to be a stray canon, so they replaced him with a conservative fitness fanatic, who looks so bereft of charisma, that he walks in the leaders shoes like a drain-layer in muddy boots and appears as ill at ease in any social strata, as he does in even the best cut suit.
Without any clear idea of policy, or even the vague direction that his army of uncertain troops may decide upon, he settles for the single mindedness of the job in hand, that of opposition, which he toils at in his workman like way, by doing just that and nothing else.
* Not a derogatory expression, “top dog” being a male reference, I was obliged to use the female gender.
Who is making these ads? How do they sleep at night?