Did Anyone Seriously Expect Otherwise?

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Back on 27th August, I wrote in this blog that it was clear that the City of Perth wasn't enthusiastic about taking on the whole of Vincent.

Before that, on 17th August, I argued in 'Speaker's Corner' in the Perth Voice that going straight to the 'one-in all-in' position left no fall-back position and quoted Polish Philosopher, Leszeck Kolakowski, who wrote: "it may well be that the impossible can only become possible by being stated at a time when it is impossible".

Now we have what was seen as the possible (the whole of Vincent being amalgamated into the City of Perth) becoming the impossible. And the impossible perhaps becoming possible with the plebiscite on 19th October.

At the moment, Colin Barnett has so many problems (see previous posts Bull(y) In A China Shop and No Fairy Godmother for Barnett in Canberra) that perhaps he might want to do without the aggro of forced local government amalgamations and, as another blogger has pointed out (http://freoview.wordpress.com/2013/09/20/cockburn-kwinana-merger-off), this could be a really good opportunity for him to scrap the forced amalgamations without losing too much face - not having the money for them could be seen by many people as a valid reason.