Drugs are bad and punishment for bad things is good and if you try to tell me anything else I’m going to sit in a corner with my eyes squeezed shut and my fingers in my ears singing Lalalalalala at the top of my voice.

Last night’s QandA was predictably uninteresting. It comletely failed to come to grips with the results of the NSW election, with all members of the panel gluing their toes to the party lines, typical “those other bastards hate everything lovely and nice, but the Australian people understand that we are the only ones who like lovely nice things.” Yawn.

A quick skim over the top of a few middle eastern issues brought us to the last five minutes  which was a whiff of what QandA was supposed to be.

Audience member Claire Mellum (apologies if I have the spelling wrong, I’m working off the iView replay) had a question about whether the panel would support a medical heroin program similar to the HAT program in Switzerland which supplies prescription heroin to addicts. She made the point that the program has reduced crime, blood born illnesses, does not breach any international treaties and has had proven benefits to the community as well as the addicts themselves.

Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, Shadow Minister For Ageing and Mental Health, didn’t really understand the question and replied along the lines of “I think you’re talking about safe injecting rooms and I do not like your facts, they interfere with my delusions, so Imma say something incomprehensible about bees for a bit and then make a quick sly reference to Mecca for drug dealers”

Julian Morrow piped up with typically lefty whinging about how the evidence proves that safe injecting rooms saves lives and should be supported, but didn’t bang on about it.

John Della Bosca understood the question, but hijacked the debate slightly by responding as if she had asked about the NSW Safe Injecting Rooms program

Not being a politician anymore, he was able to say clearly and proudly that he is one of the people most closely associated with establishment of the Safe Injecting Rooms trail in Kings Cross and that 12 years of evidence has proven, with no room for doubt, that prohibition does not work and that access to treatment and intervention does. It saves lives and reduces risk to the community.

Then Grahame Morris weighed in and destroyed the value of any sense or intelligence he had shown over the preceding 50 minutes with this little gem: “I just do not understand the logic of this sort of stuff…y’know giving, giving heroin to addicts, you might as well give alcohol to alcoholics, give grog to alcoholics, y’know and in poor taste what the hell do you do with paedophiles. I just, I just, it is illogical, it is divisive, and if people want to try spreading this around the county, what’s the country divided?”

It’s moment like that that make those of us who would like to vote for a liberal government want to curl up and die. It’s not the conservative view point that’s a problem; it’s the emotive refusal to even consider the evidence. Drugs are bad and punishment for bad things is good and if you try to tell me anything else I’m going to sit in a corner with my eyes squeezed shut and my fingers in my ears singing Lalalalalala at the top of my voice.

The self-righteous left, with their arrogant assumption that they have god-given rights to the high moral ground and their abject failure to recognise the battles they should be fighting give me the galloping shits. But when the only available alternative is behaving like a two year old being forced to eat brussel sprouts, it’s time to pour another glass of wine, eat another biscuit and start practising my donkey pictures for the next ballot paper.

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