Mr McTaggart says he believes the result will change the nature of Pittwater in future elections.
\"This seat will probably now not revert to hardcore Liberal,\" he said.
\"They won\'t be able to just rely on the fact that they turn up to the polling booth and people just will slavishly vote Liberal anymore.
\"And that\'s a good thing for our community because now they at least, they won\'t take us for granted.\"
That statement is consistent with
Graham Young\'s article
describing the Pittwater by-election as further example of the weakening of \"branding\";
It is also evidence of the decrease in brand loyalty across society which not only affects political parties, but every other product as well. And it\'s more pronounced amongst younger Australians, so things are going to get more difficult as time goes by.
The implication of this is that the entitlement mentality displayed by so many political operators will most likely bring as its reward the failure of their ambitions.
I worry that by focusing on the extremes, which a by-election slaying is, means that the real pattern is being missed, but I think this indicative of the breakdown of the position of \"opposition\" in our two party duopoly Westminster variations.
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