The democrats will they be here much longer?

[fish]

It was Cheryl Kernot $hagging Gareth Evans that turned me off them - no taste / poor form

Yep I definitelty agree with that. The thought of those two together...

Funny though I dated a girl a couple of years ago who thought Gareth was a mega-stud . She obviously had bad taste in blokes though as she ended up dumping me soon after.

[dedja]

mega-stud????

[Sojourner]

Greens certainly rising to the legitimate "third party" title in SA but would want to win a Lower House seat in their own right here if they are to continue to prosper.

The same could also be said for Family First who also have the same number of representatives in the SA parliment and they to need to win a lower house seat to take it to the next level.

The point being that both are at the far side of the Right and the Left, there is no party with any large numbers that occupies the Centre which was once the domain of the Democrats. Yet perhaps the reason is that in a Centrist party it must have both Right and Left wing views and ideals and clearly they cannot mix together as has been shown by the decline of the Democrats after the Left of the party took it over.