NATIONALS Senator Barnaby Joyce said he believed Independents Tony Windsor and Rob Oakshott would ‘coninue to just go along with the government’ unless they were subjected to more pressure from their electorates.
“I grew up in this area, I went to the university and three of my brothers went to De La Salle College down the road there, so I have a rough idea of how people in my area think and I don’t think you are switched on to what Tony Windsor has done,” he said at the Armidale Business Forum yesterday.
Sen Joyce said people were disillusioned with Mr Windsor’s support of the Federal Government’s carbon tax.
“The people of New England have always been (because they wanted their own state in 1967) a very partisan and proud people and they have a very clear view of the way they see the world,” he said.
He said, given the sentiment he was picking up from people in New England, that Mr Windsor was unlikely to hold his seat at the next election.
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