McGinty despondent about mandatory sentencing or his own failures?

Jim McGinty despondent - doesn't that require emotion?

The Desert Rat is unimpressed by Jim McGinty's crocodile tears. He is quoted on ABC TV as being despondent about the Barnett Government's mandatory sentencing legislation.

McGinty's political policy gymnastics in crises, shines a flashlight into the greasy recess of the sad cockroach infested policy making apparatus within the state ALP. It's driven by polls.

McGinty should have thought about the folly of mandatory sentencing and its unintended consequences when he and Labor Premier Carmen Lawrence first introduced mandatory sentencing in 1991. The Stalinist streak in McGinty retreats only marginally, when he is in opposition.

Labors 1991 three strikes legislation was a shambles and from the Desert Rat's memory - had no effect on crime statistics and tied the courts up in red bureaucratic tape. It was an embarrassment just like the fiasco of McGinty's Truth in Sentencing legislation.

What McGinty can't comprehend is that the Labor Party can never outbid and should never outbid a conservative party on mandatory sentencing. It was a stupid road to go down and set the rabbit running.

After pathetically failing to protect nurses when he was Minister for Health and Attorney General, McGinty and the rabble called "Labor" now want nurses covered by new laws which they claim at the same time are dangerous and ineffective. Illogical Jim?

Will Jim McGinty ever understand that public respect will come from well argued policy that is coherent and consistent in both government and opposition? McGinty's position shifts with every change in the polls. Pot polls, mandatory sentence polls you name it.