This week’s Trader Bulletin announces the
upcoming elections for a Trader Representative Committee and the excitement has
already started.
Victraders has received a list of promises from
a candidate which bears a striking resemblance to the recent US Presidential
campaign. It contains promises that can’t be kept, attitudes that can be
described as “redneck” and some very questionable solutions to problems at our
market.
This submission is a joke but the election of
course is quite serious and we look forward to some real discussion over coming
weeks.
- LET'S MAKE QVM GREAT AGAIN -
1) We're going to deregulate the market.
Creating a free and open marketplace.
Putting control back in trader’s hands.
2) We're going to bring manufacturing to the
market and locally made products back to the market.
3) We're going to create jobs by filling the
market with more and more of the same traders.
4) We're going to give the jobs back to
Australian traders. Our traditional generational traders, the Italians, Greeks,
Polish and Russian.
5) We're going to stop all the money going to
the Food area and the elitist night market.
We will demand a proportional share of the
budget in keeping with our contribution to revenue.
6) We're going to lower rents and fees - easing the financial pressure on struggling
traders, the backbone of this market.
7) We're going to put a trader on the board
of directors. Ensuring simple solutions to complex problems.
8) Finally, we are going to build a wall in
Queen Street and we are going to make food pay for it.
LET'S MAKE QVM GREAT AGAIN
(Chanting) QVM - QVM - QVM - QVM...