Got this in my letterbox yesterday.
YESTERDAY
And no, it wasn’t posted, it was apparently hand delivered. Guess they needed to clear out their old stock real fast…
Tag: Gillard
Prognostication
If the leadership spill goes ahead and Kevin Rudd becomes PM, Tony Abbott will spend the next week banging on about how the Labor party are an unorganised mess, can’t make up their minds, have a revolving door leadership and cannot be trusted with the future of the nation.
If the leadership spill doesn’t go ahead, or it does go ahead and Julia Gillard remains as PM, Tony Abbott will spend the next week banging on about how the Labor party are an unorganised mess, can’t make up their minds, have a dud for a leader and cannot be trusted with the future of the nation.
Whichever happens, the papers will agree with Tony Abbott, talkback radio will agree with the papers, and the vast unthinking mass of the voting public will agree with the talkback radio. This is what we – for some reason – label ‘the political process’.
Oh America!
Apparently there’s some American woman who wants to move to Australia because…
“…their president is a Christian and actually supports what he says…”
Hmmm, let’s do a comparison…
| Julia Gillard Prime Minister of Australia |
Barack Obama President of the United States of America |
|
|---|---|---|
| President? | No | Yes |
| Christian? | No – A stated Atheist | Yes – Despite right wingers’ repeated claims that he’s a filthy, evil, communist, socialist, terrorist, Kenyan “Muslin” |
| He? | No | Yes |
| Actually supports what he says? | No* | No* |
| Score | 0/4 | 3/4 |
When it’s put like that, I rather think she’d be happier staying where she is.
(* Find me a politician who does and I’ll give you a shiny new donkey – or if you prefer, elephant)
The End of the Begining
I’ve avoided any political blogging for a bit because it’s all been up in the air since the election. To recap – we’ve ended up with a hung parliament with a bunch of Independents (and one Green) set to decide who’s going to form government. The Green and some of the Independents have already made their choices, leaving just three holdouts to decide the fate of the nation.
Well, today these three are set to reveal their choice. What’s interesting is that one of them – the, shall we say ‘somewhat eccentric’ Bob Katter – has broken ranks and announced that he’s supporting Tony Abbot and the Liberal/National Coalition a full hour before the scheduled press conference. This puts the Coalition and Labor neck and neck on 74 seats.
So, does this mean that the other two Independents are supporting Julia Gillard and Labor, and Katter’s decided he doesn’t want to be associated with them? Or that all three are supporting the Coalition and Bob Katter is just being Bob Katter and jumping the gun for his own Bob Katterish reasons?
Stay tuned…
Later: Katter has now said if the other two go for Labor, he might change his mind…
Later: Tony Windsor has come out for Labor (he likes Broadband and Renewable Energy). Labor leads 75 to 74. The Coalition cannot form government!
Later: Windsor is still talking. He’s never going to have an audience this big again and he’s milking it for all he can get…
Still Later: A work colleague is going to register “tonywindsorpleaseshutup.com”
Again Later: Finally. Now for Rob Oakshot.
Later Later Later: It’s “there can be only one”, get your pop-cultural references right!
Later Still: Oakshot’s as bad as Tony!
Later: We don’t care about your children! Tell us who’s PM!!
Laaaaaateeeeeer: C’mon!
LATER: This is worse than Who Wants to be a Millionaire
later later later later: You can equivocate later! Just give us a damn answer you fool!
Later: We want to go home tonight too!!
Later: i can has gubermint plz?
Later: Finally! Labor has 76 seats! Labor and Julia Gillard it is! Hooray! (Mind you at this point I’d be happy with a new election just to stop Oakfield talking…)
WE HAVE A GOVERNMENT!!!
