That same sentiment I am sure would echo through the Bathurst electorate if there was an election now.

The government pulling the greyhound racing ban out of a hat and the forced council amalgamations when it was promised that this would not be the case have left the government, and in particular The Nationals, with egg on their face.

Neither the forced council amalgamations or the ban on greyhound racing were policies that were taken to the last election.

We were in reality ambushed by both of these.

In the case of forced council amalgamations our local elected member for Bathurst Paul Toole has demonstrated that he cannot be trusted and no longer deserves to represent us in government.

Many politicians seem to forget that we elect them to represent us. They are working for us the electorate.

We are not there for them.

We effectively employ them to serve us and to look after our interests .

In the case of our member for Bathurst, Paul Toole. He has demonstrated that he is no longer working to serve our interests and needs to be replaced.

It is still two years to the next state election and I am sure there are many who will have long memories.

Paul Toole’s photo appears often in the local papers heralding some grant of money from the government for some local project .

He portrays the view that we the electorate should be grateful to him for these acts of charity.

We give the government money in the form of taxes and duties. This is our money that we give the government.

They give some of this back to us in the form of grants and we are supposed to be grateful. The minister seems to think that it is he that is giving us his money and we should be grateful to him and without him we would not get it. What a load of crap.