NSW Power-selloff: heads roll!

Following NSW minister John Watkins' resignation earlier this week comes the reshuffle resulting sacking of the Treasurer Michael Costa and then the loss of support for the Premier Morris Iemma ... the two architects of the attempt to privatise NSW Power.

Finally State Labor has taken notice of the overwhelming oppostion to this scheme after an eight month ostrich like battle to ignore the public, the Labor Party Branches, the Labor Party Conference and finally, last week, State Parliament!

For eight months arrogance tried to face down common sense, aided by much of the media and of course the so called representatives of the business community (in a situation where much of small business was opposed to the sell-off).

The bravery award goes to the unions, and all the political and community organisations who fought to retain NSW Electricity in public hands, using the same strategy that removed John Howard ... reliance on local organisation to put relentless pressure on the polititical representatives to REPRESENT!

As the last Federal Election showed there has been a quite shift in the electorate ... a shift Costa and Iemma thought they could safely ignore. Now they too have been pushed aside just as dramatically as Howard was last November.