Yes, I know that you are thinking: Judith, haven’t you got something better to do. But I am in an airport lounge, cooling me heels.
And there on the TV is Simon Crean, who has clearly switched his support, telling us that he is going to request that the PM spills all leadership positions.
I think I may have another New Zealand white.
He is saying “it is not personal. It is about the future of the party. Rudd has no choice but to stand for the leadership.”
He says he will be contesting the deputy position.
Fill up the glass, I say.
What’s there for Rudd to explain? There’s nothing, you moron. He didn’t instigate the spill. Chinless Crean did.
Oh Yea… I’m getting the bag or pretzels ready for that to occur. Can’t wait.
You’re insufferable Stepford.
Fleeced
At the rate the Liars party is going, they will be lucky to hold 30 seats. They’re not coming back for a while save for the Libs to implode Fraser style.
I think Crean was being straight up in his presser at lunchtime. He was watching these fools piss away the work of a generation of Labor that had come before, and chose to act.
Didn’t come off, but he had a tilt, and he was possibly the only one who could.
Fuck me.
Is there any oxygen at all on Planet Steve?
She absolutely (ahem) rat-fucked him in 2010 and he is expected to suck it up “for the good of the stabilidy of the pardy”.
It ain’t gonna happen.
Ruddster wants to cement his place in history (at worst) as a martyr who won a great victory over Howard, and then got shafted by Lard-arse who led the party to generational ruin.
Her destruction and his canonisation are inextricably linked.
He’s such and angry turkey. I can’t stand the douchebag.
I wonder how good little Andrew Leigh handled it all. The teacher’s pet. I’m sure he gave the slapper an apple after the vote.
Suspect a lot of Labor lollies will be getting drunk tonight.
He’s still a first rate asshat and douchebag though. The fucker wasn’t against the media laws. He was against da process.
Fuck him. I wouldn’t wink even if I saw him stuck under the bus. I feel the same about all of those totalitarian pieces of shit after this.
Masterstroke by Kevin Rudd. He has achieved a massive payback for last year’s rebuff.
- His people snowed Crean into calling for the spill on the assumption that he would be Rudd’s deputy.
- Gillard was goaded into calling the spill, but she and Swan were the sole applicants, and there wasn’t even a vote.
- lots of government members’ made their loyalties and voting intentions public.
As a result:
- Gillard has sacked Crean and Lu Kewen will be very happy about that because of what Crean did to him and said about him last year.
- Gillard has massive egg on her face and has clearly demonstrated again to everyone, politicians and members of the public alike, just how incompetent she really is.
- Fitzgibbon, the Government Chief Whip who is openly a Rudd supporter and Gillard critic, remains in place and cannot be sacked by Gillard as he is appointed by and can only be removed by the Caucus, and will continue to destabilise her.
- The chaotic division and rancour within the Government will continue unabated.
Kevin must be very pleased with his work today. I have said it before – he is no longer interested in the leadership, he is only interested in payback. His intention is to ensure they march into oblivion.
It’s Harmony Day! Can’t we all just get along?
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Why-to celebrate? They’re still looking at 30% or less.
The thing I’m looking forward to most after the next election is that we’ll be rid of Herpes Gillard and we can then apply the blowtorch to socialist Tony and his spiv mates.
The Libs will be cockahoop and bringing them back to earth with a thud and then kicking them square in their communist balls will be a delight.
ALP to Australia:
Habemus slappam!
Gab, thanks. Doubly for that nice memory of Breckie Creek steaks and that special stuff they put on the potato. I haven’t been back since the re-modelling a glacial age ago. Are the steaks still as good?
A truly Gilbertian farce. On with the motley I say.
It gives me some consolation to know that IT (as well as many others here) are never going to be happy with any Australian government.
I did say if he really wants to help the party…
If I see the Ruddster at Peregian, I’ll shake his hand on behalf of conservative voters everywhere.
In truth, it is hard to know how much Rudd was encouraging his supporters to keep up the backgrounding and destabilisation. It’s possible that a lot of it was done under their own steam.
What is surely clear, though, is that (apart from his statements to camera that he wouldn’t be challenging, which everyone knows are never to be taken seriously) he must never have got on the phone to them and said “guys, stop backgrounding the press about how I should be leader again. It’s hurting the party.”
No one should be happy the the government, they are tolerated,just
Haven’t been there for a few years now, Miner but I can’t see why they would go down in quality.
You’re a troll, Dogshit, sniffing around the Cat like a parkland perv. And everyone can see your herpes lesions.
Government is a whore that needs kneecapping.
You should never be happy with your elected representatives. They need to be hassled, maligned and spat upon if necessary at every opportunity. They are our servants and should be reminded of that 24/7.
They are dung beetles – We tolerate them only as long as they eat shit.
Libs were very effective today. They have invested a lot into damaging Gillard, and did not want her to lose leadership of the ALP. The no confidence motion worked perfectly in this regard.
At the same time, they made sure as much damage as possible was extracted. Well played.
I liked Mark Textor’s summation, really rubbed salt into the wound.
Krudd’s long game of course depends on him retaining his seat in the coming tsunami and that’s no certainty.
Is it wrong for me to hope you need urgent consular assistance in some third world prison someday, IT, and it can’t be provided because of some draconian government funding cut back you approved of before you left?
For heaven’s sake:-
Uh? She never sought office ‘for its own sake’, but only ever ‘for its own sake’? Rather contradictory you may think.
And apparently, the present mess will take care of itself.
And another thing..the curses that accompanied BAS payments today as we watched the ALP chase it’s tail yet again. Moebius clusterfuck.
She does have a point.
What future is Gillard talking about . The future that she has wrought upon us since 2010? We’re living her dream now. Cachau bant
Junior minister Richard Marles, who poked his head up today for Rudd, got it kicked off and was sacked by the Slapper, now says she’s a wonderful leader because she has created the world’s best economy, which works because a gang of Fabian Marxists are in charge. Marles is actually another of the shit-kicking union bruvvers who are destroying Australian manufacturing through the Fair Work IR standover racket, government debt and the air tax; it’s just that, like everything the left destroys, the story won’t be told until the spin is overturned by the real data in 2014-15.
780 comments? Wow.
Mark, quote of the day:
Septimus:
Agreed. krudd absolutely screwed Crean to the wall: “So, you ratf**ked me, eh? Well then, cop this lot!‘
And Crean never saw it coming.
Agreed.
yet it is much worse than this and runs deeper. Krudd also panicked Gilalrd. What’s the real lesson here?
1. Gillard is shown to be completely uninterested in the ALP, in Australia or in anything else than Gillard keeping power.
2. Gillard is shown to be fragile, emotionally-driven and panicky.
3. She is absolutely tied to the coming disaster
Theref0re:
A. her legacy is raw sewage, forevermore She is the one who destroyed the ALP, she is the one who cost the ALP power for God knows how long, and she is the one who has cost it its moral core (which was once admirable).
Krudd’s revenge is absolutely awesome to behold. he might be a slimy incompetent weasel, but he’s a vicious and vindictive slimy incompetent weasel.
Agreed.
Oh correct, but it’s much, much worse than this. Her legacy is utterly destroyed, her reputation is utterly destroyed, she has gutted the ALp like a fish and left their worst and most corrupt dregs in power. And do not forget how this makes Bill Ludwig look!
He, after all, owns her. She’s his submissive and he’s her dom.
Agreed, a beautiful side benefit for Krudd.
Again, yes, and much worse than this. it willa ccelerate now, as all Gillards rats know it’s over, so they will steal the silver. And they are dumb enough to get caught…
Septimus, we’ve both been saying this for yonks. And today has proven we are both spot on.
So what now?
if Krudd is as vicious and vindictive as I think he is, he knows he’s screwed. Why would he want to take over the thrice-bounced rubble after the election?
So if he really wants to grind her face into the slime with his boot on the back of her head, he’ll ‘resign from politics due to unexpected health reasons’ – the day after the cataclysmic last Swan budget is announced.
I spent the PM in the office choking back laughter. it was tremendous fun, and very close to teh best possible outcome for Abbott.
It WAS the worst possible outcome for the Lying Slapper.
And the funniest thiongt of all?
The stupid cow thinks she has won a victory.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Great, don’t you just love it when idiots who’d be more at home in the dark ages refer to themselves and their fellow travellers as “progressives”?
Oh – and lardarse is the one with the monopoly on stabilidy, you botoxed, brain damaged harridan.
SMH has the transcript of an extended and somewhat entertaining Latham spray from yesterday about Rudd, Richardson & Fitzgibbon.
(But does Latham ever mention his damaging stalking of Gillard during the last election campaign any more?)
Every leftwinger is reading it too with clenched teeth, DB. Don’t worry about that. They absolutely despise us and we despise them back. Double.
Presumably, it’s the future to which she claims, above all, to ensure a ticket for every Australian child.
Yes, Dover and i’m finding that the screen still refreshes in reasonable time. Well done, Jacques.
No. To forget.
I’ve love to know what Jacques undid to enable the site to handle the traffic surge after the meltdown around 2pm.
Yep, 780 plus comments and in less than seven hours.
Go, Catallaxy! Sinclair should charge and make a fortune.
Tony Abbott calls for an immediate election.
Here ya go sinc.
I’d imagine the whip still gets his extra pay for sitting on his arse for six weeks.
Eddy
Christine Milne on SkyNews:
“We call on all progressive voters to get behind the Greens because we are the only party who offers stable government”…’
She does have a point.
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Only if you want to goose step home to your mud hut every night !
Mk – truth is indeed stranger than fiction!
Emerson on wiv Leigh Sales.
He looks and like a battered defeated cretin rather than the usual inane aggressive thug.
It’s really quite striking.
The hag has destroyed his life.
He lost his wife and family and now soon his parliamentary seat after a member of the most woeful government in Aussie history.
Secret video of Gillard addressing the caucus meeting
The Leg-over Man does look rooted.
Dover, 800 posts!
This is as nothing, nothing I tell you, to the might and majesty of Lavatory Rodeo.
My God, man, they have 65! SIXTY FIVE posts!
Oh, wait…
[snigger]
Kevin Rudd waits patiently for broad cross-factional support from Caucus to draft him as PM.
My English ancestry this time. Again for SfB who has debased even his usual standard of execrable prose this day.
SEYTON
The queen, my lord, is not dead.
MACBETH
She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty lot from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to party death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets her hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more after 14 Sept: it is a tale
Told by an idiot ABC, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Slight editing liberties taken. Someone should report me to the Press Council.
Australian Labor’s last leader concedes:-
Forever?
Larry Pickering gets to play with the strap on until Sep
Mk50 @ 7.25pm
What you suggest may well come to pass. Rudd has unfinished business and is going about his retribution with deadly purpose. He is Machiavelli’s Prince in this scenario and no-one in the government is a match for him. Gillard is, as usual, delusional in professing that today’s Caucus outcome is an end to it, likewise for Swan. There is much more to come and the inscrutable Lu Kewen will not be denied.
Hot off the press, Oakeshott, Windsor and Wilkie:
“We’ve listened to our electorate’s wishes and those of the wider Australian electorate for an election forthwith and despite all endeavours to honour our support commitment to the Gillard Government we now find ourselves in an untenable position. Clearly there is deep division within the Gillard Government which escalated today. We have lost confidence in the Gillard Government’s ability to provide stability and structured policy outcomes. We acknowledge our individual electorates wishes to participate in the electoral process sooner rather than later. Out of respect to the electorate and the need for clarity and stability in the Australian political sphere we announce withdrawal of support for the Gillard minority government forthwith”
If only!
Rudd reflects on Gillard’s statement and muses this.
MK 50 ” My God, man, they have 65! SIXTY FIVE posts!”
Quality not quantity my good man. Their posts are thoroughly vetted to eliminate any chance of brain bleach being required.
In fact , their posts are so soporific that the AIS has banned sports people from viewing that blog prior to any event..
The only relationship between greens and stable is that both greens and stables are full of horse shit.
Anyone from the Coalition to Simon Crean: “A courageous decision, Minister.”
Laughter echoes through the house…
House
Rob..given that cows and horses fart, and are thus animulus non gratis with the greens, I just wonder how far back down civilisations path their utopia lies..
Leaked footage of Conroy in caucus today announcing the death of Gillard’s media ban:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu5Gc-t8QLY
Tracey..you were correct first time. The House has been diminished to house by the actions of Gillard and co
That’s Nicola Roxon at :20 —–>>>>>
About 65 million years?
Driftforge I just wonder how far back down civilisations path their utopia lies..
About 65 million years?
Cool. Let’s send ‘em back to the extinction event..
Mark, TLS makes this stuff-up all the time.
Concur on the, Septimus.
I’m actually a little impressed at the depth of Krudd’s hate and the soulless vindictiveness of his vengeance.
Of course, neither of these are good things to say.
crean’s a wily customer, he’s been around.
And he’s been suckered and destroyed like a gormless neophyte.
Watching the ‘reporting’, absolutely none of this has dawned on the towering geniuses of the ALPBCgreenfilth socialist circlejerk.
And there is the promise of more to come!
Remember, folks, this is just the start of the active phase of Krudd’s Revenge.
BTW, excellent result.
Hey Septmus, on a night like tonight, what music do you recommend?
I am thinking Amon Amarth, The Avenger, and a glass of good rum. Mount Gay Barbados rum, The Black Barrel. Neat, of course.
What do you think
Quite so, Mk50, quite so. Who needs GoT when we have this to watch?
I am impressed with Rudd’s ratfuck cunning. Pity it didn’t translate to governance or we’d not be in the hole we’re in. Or not so deep.
I’m very impressed. He’s shown up the ALP leadership to be a vacuous bunch of cowards that jump at shadows. Gillard looks like a bigger fool than usual. Couldn’t call his bluff, had to follow him and ended up in a more divided caucus.
Of course Krudd is also shooting himself in the foot at the same time. Win win situation.
For post-prandial entertainment on a day when too much entertainment was barely enough, Mark Latham goes on a rant: ‘He’s always inflating his numbers’: Latham unleashes extraordinary diatribe on Rudd, Fitzgibbon and Richardson
This is an edited transcript of former ALP leader Mark Latham speaking to 2UE’s Paul Murray on Thursday morning.
“We go through this every time about the inflated Rudd numbers. Kevin Rudd put his hand up for the Labor leadership six times, and in each case he has dramatically inflated his numbers in leaks to the media.
“You had silly Kieran Gilbert on Sky News today saying: ‘Oh, will it be like last time, when Rudd had the numbers and then they fell apart when the ballot was held – his numbers dissipated.’
“Well, he didn’t have the numbers in the first place; I mean, I just get amazed at the gullible nature of the media where, time after time after time after time, they buy the Rudd BS.
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“He’s always inflating his numbers. He’s now got [Graham] Richardson, who, more than any other person, has wrecked the modern culture of the Labor Party. Why is Richardson supporting Rudd, and in there working on the numbers? Because Gillard won’t listen to him, you see.
“Richardson is all about difference, unless he’s the main numbers man and the one they listen to, he goes to do you in. He did Rudd in three years ago. He made out that he was a part of the coup against Kevin Rudd because Rudd wasn’t listening to him. Now he wants to be a part of a coup against Gillard because she didn’t listen to him.
“Why don’t people listen to Graham Richardson? I’ll give you one good reason – he’s the man that walked up to Eddie Obeid once and said: ‘Here, on this platter for you, I’ve got a seat in the NSW upper house on behalf of the Labor Party.’
“How can the man who put Eddie Obeid into the NSW Parliament be wandering around talking about political judgment, calling the Prime Minister an idiot? The biggest idiot in Labor politics today is the man who put Obeid in Parliament: Graham Fredrick Richardson.
“I’ve had a gutful of the bloke who was a paid lobbyist for Ron Medich, who got into scandals about Swiss bank accounts. How can you say you’re a Labor man when you’ve set up Swiss bank accounts? Swiss bank accounts worked for Kerry Packer.
“It’s shameful that this man has any reputation, the man who set up the wheeling and dealing, ‘whatever it takes’ culture in the modern Labor Party. He’s the bloke who wrecked the place and he walks around like he’s got clean hands like Mother Teresa, knows all the numbers. All he knows how to do is put people like Obeid in Parliament … and it’s a real achievement in public life for Richardson, but 20 years after he made that decision, it is contributing to the destruction of the federal Labor government. He should crawl under the rock from which he came.
“I know Joel Fitzgibbon well. Fitzgibbon’s first instinct in public life is panic, and you saw that yesterday when he’s wandering down the corridors saying, ‘we’ve only got 31 per cent of the primary vote’. He’s an amateur. He’s a buffoon. He is not someone who – when I was running for leadership against Beazley – who we thought was good enough to come into our council of war.
“If Rudd is relying on Fitzgibbon, again, it just points to the fact that he’s got the dregs of the labour movement with him. People like Richardson and Fitzgibbon. Fitzgibbon’s second instinct in life is to blabber non-stop, on and off the record, to the media; he’s addicted to the media as badly as Rudd …
“They won’t have a ballot in the caucus board … I’ll tell you what the ballot should be for. It should be for the position of chief government whip, because in the Westminster tradition, that position of chief government whip held by Joel Fitzgibbon only has one duty: to be loyal to the leader.
“And if you’re a person of honour and you recognise that you can’t discharge that duty any more, you have to resign from that position. Not take the extra taxpayers’ money that comes with it.
“When you talk about Fitzgibbon, you’re talking about someone who is not only the dregs of the labour movement, he’s totally dishonourable.
Crean has gotten a whiff of what they have in store for the nation for the next four months.
His actions today were what history will note was the final impotent attempt to stop the coming Fabian Reign of Terror.
Mk 50..Zacaba if you want to treat yourself. A local fave is the Burnett Club..Bundaberg..special house blend. Great stuff before we go crabbing up that way on our piscatorial seminars..
Can I make a plea! Someone make sure this thread is safely archived because apart from the comedy gold, it is the one valuable and lasting contribution to Australia made during the Rudd/Gillard fiasco since 2007. We owe it to our kids.
ps. Windsor, you smartarse, how ya gonna get an early election now?
The best Labor have been able to throw up as leaders since 2006 have been Rudd and Gillard. Before that (except for the brief redux by Beazley) was Latham. WTF will it take for the ALPBC to investigate what this means?
Appletons. Jamaican. Nothing else suffices. Really.
Not for me tonight though. My Evans & Tate shiraz is doing quite fine.
@abcnews: Joel Fitzgibbon will quit as Chief Government Whip. @edhusicMP and @JanelleSaffin are stepping from their Government Whip positions.
To lose a Parliamentary Secretary and a Cabinet Minister in one day is unfortunate. But all your Whips as well?
Maybe Nanny Roxon will be given the whipping duties.
Mk50
Tis a night worthy of celebratory music but alas, the ears have been ringing rather badly of late (maybe from the effect of TLS’s screeching in Question Time this week). So it’s a quiet night for me sans music.
Double alas, I have no good rum on hand, just a half bottle of Bacardi. I have not tried Mount Gay Barbados rum, although I was in Barbados 12 months ago. I am partial to Cruzan Rum and Tortuga Rum and will have to invite Mrs Septimus to re-visit the Caribbean soon for fresh supplies. In the meantime I have tonight settled for a couple of glasses of a nice McLaren Vale Shiraz.
Lord I remember when Rudd introduced the 10000 ideas summit we all knew then it was going to be a screwed up government but I didn’t think it would be this bad
Drudd..in a violent futuristic parliament where the speaker has the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a whip teams with a disgraced trainee to take down an ALP gang that deals in the reality altering drug ..JULIAR
Why oh why does Labor keep trotting out Emerson to defend TLS? Do McTurd and co. think hearing from her adulterous ex-lover is a good look?
Tim will now have enough time to strip all the copper out of The Lodge.
Lococoti..Does the lodge come equipped with electrical safety switches?
Just curious…
If the neighbours complain about the smell of burning hair gel, we’ll know.
MarkL
Just got in to Vegas. Out lunchtime Sat. Tomorrow night might be available for a shandy and tofu salad.
The ALP is so hopeless they can’t even get the city right. The comedy festival is in Melbourne.
Appletons I have tried – very nice.
Zacapa i will try, their dark premium looks very fine.
Septimus, if you go back to barbados, maybe visit the Mount Gay distillery, I have not been there, unfortunately.
I have visited Green Island distillery in Mauritius, and have good memories (if slightly out of focus ones) of both their rum and of Blue Marlin beer.
Green Island is not to Mount Gay standard, but it is a very nice drop. The Green Island Superior Light (White rum) is really unusual, a white rum with a golden rum taste,
Another good one from the Indian Ocean is St Aubin Rhum Agricole, but it’s a rhum, not a rum.
What a wonderful day of entertainment Kruddles and Slaps have provided, eh?
The most telling thing to me is that Kruddles has decided that leadership of the ruins of the ALP is not something worth his time. Not something worth fighting over, not something worth anything at all.
That’s a shocking thing.
No wonder the ALPBC refuses even to think on it.
Pickles, you got my phone number still?
Tracey, well they can’t very well trot out her other ex-love Bruce Wilson can they?
You think?
That would involve actual physical work.
And mentioning the word “copper” to the Droner might have her running out the back door and over the fence.
i woke up hungover here in England a little while ago and have been laughing non stop reading through this thread and other sites on this miserable clusterfuck of a government.
its pure comedy, and thankfully the LS will be there to vote out at election time. i agree with IT, being merely voted out isn’t enough. we need more pain and humiliation. a public flogging followed by some form of execution would fit the bill.
Oh well, on to McSporran’s next distraction. What price TLS & Tim announce their engagement on a mummyblog near you?
Friend of mine passed comment that the ALP should make Craig Thomson the leader as, compared to the rest of them, he’s the only one with enough competence to actually organise a root in a brothel…
Amon Amarth; good guitar work but the vocals are pretty bad even for death metal.
Harry it was like watching a bunch of high schoolers get all excited about who was going with whom to the prom and what the theme would be on the night. Just pathetic. Reaction from most Labor MPs best summed up as…
Da Hairy Ape recommends Wagner, a bit of sturm and drang, the inevitability of conflict. Actually, he says specifically Gotterdamerung, Twilight of the Gods, a titanic struggle.
As for the rum, I used to love Appleton’s when I was in Jamaica, but I have gone off it recently. Too sweet. Then went over to Mt. Gay, but Syd Airport had a special on Sailor Jerry (never heard of it) recently. We were in a hurry and grabbed some, and boozed well on it in our tropical bure very recently while watching South Seas sunsets. It was mildly spiced and in context was acceptably drinkable, leavened by my pina coladas and other sundry cocktails in the resort and excellent French reds with dinner. Tusker beer OK too.
MK50, an excellent run down, especially:
Front row seats to be reserved for all Cat, please.
Funny thing… Wifey has very little interest in politics.
Shane Wand appeared on TV and she absolutely recoiled saying… “I just can’t stand him. He creeps me out”.
Abbott has now destroyed Rudd, Crean, Roxon, Conroy and Crean.
Game on! LOL.
craig Emerson looks quite gaunt and ill.
gold, gab!
I’m not sure Swan is well. He looks exhausted and washed out.
A laugh is Hon. Wayne Swan:-
David Marr has reportedly been going door to door all day trying to shock people with Wall Punch II.
I think they’re all exhausted. Very emotional day. Even Hockey sounded worn out tonight, if not a little despondent over what this government is doing to this country.
Yes, Cut&Paste has a nice little collection of Wayneisms:
Wayne Swan, ABC online, September 4, 2011:
JULIA Gillard is tough as nails.
As nails. Swan, May 6, 2012:
THIS Prime Minister is as tough as nails and she ain’t going anywhere.
Agreed. Swan, November 8, 2012:
THE reason this legislation (carbon tax) is passing is because the PM is as tough as nails.
Tough as teeth. Wayne Swan, December 17, 2012, The Australian:
WE’VE got a Prime Minister who is tough as teeth, a Prime Minister who has got ideas for the future.
Or was that teak? Same press conference reported in The Daily Telegraph:
WE’VE got a Prime Minister who is tough as teak, a Prime Minister who has got ideas for the future. And we’ve got an Opposition Leader who is a policy weakling and, of course, a thug when it comes to personal attacks.
Just tough. Wayne Swan, yesterday:
JULIA Gillard is as tough as they make them.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/cut-paste/what-if-tony-abbott-said-the-pm-was-policy-weak-and-that-man-hating-julia-was-back/story-fn72xczz-1226601987400
Spot on CL.
And hasn’t lost a scrap of skin in the process.
He is the ALP’s Jonestown cordial ………. Lethal.
I wish he was seriously ill. Wand was egging on C..t Conroy to push harsher media laws. Believe it or not C..t conroy’s proposals were actually the ones watered down by the slapper. Wand was pushing for full retard.
I can only hope he has a miserable remaining life..the fucking little bastard.
Possibly had a contact lens stuck in his throat.
Cl ” I’m not sure Swan is well. He looks exhausted and washed out.”
With the numbers as slim as they are, it wouldn’t surprise me if the ALP did a Weekend at Bernies if some one did fall off their twig.
Only the stench and wooden actions would give them away..
Ooops..secret is out
Hawking’s parallel universe theory looks more plausible by the day.
Gab, how do you find these things?
WTF Parrot absolutely hysterically funny. Da Hairy Ape just watched it with me; we were in fits. He was so enthused he is now doing a WTF parrot imitation, with added ape dance, for my benefit.
I think he is feeling better now. Back to his old self.
Good to hear Da Hairy One is back to his chirpy self.
Exactly. Why would he take on another defeat today when the ALP is staring at Hades whatever happens?
Let Bill ‘Wagging Willy’ Shorten take over after the annhilation and fail at the 2016 election. Then Krudd can be a saviour, still in his fifties.
Remember Howard..
Gillard is as tough as something she soon will be – toast.
its not just the slapper, abbott equally has destroyed labor for a generation. for that he gets a nod and a tip of the hat. well played sir.
Holy snappin’ duckshit!
800 plus comments.
I’ll never catch up.
But to be honest, Abbott hasn’t really had to put in much effort.
It’s all been bottled up.
It’s gobsmacking how they cling to Ms Gillard when she is the obstacle. Simon Crean tried to show them but they’re not ready to listen right now, and he lost his job for his troubles.
They might be wishing it’s Conroy.
By the way, speaking of slim numbers, Slippery is in the dock on Monday.
Rudd is up against Dr Bill Glasson in Griffith. Dr Glasson is highly regarded and after todays softcock response from Rudd, will win Griffith easily.
Good that the discussion here has moved on to the important question of parrots.
The obvious and easy contribution to the thread is a reference to the parrot sketch.
Less well known and appreciated, perhaps, is Mr Slater’s parrot from Bonzo Dog
Dying of shame I imagine.
Craig Emerson’s spine was put on EBay . That is why he looks gaunt.
Thought they would be realistic enough to learn from it but the ALP seems to be going down the Brit Labour path with Gordon Brown. Too weak to challenge so they all get smoked together.
Good comedy today.
Pity the bill is running at $250,000,000,000 and counting for this show.
I laughed out load last night when I watched 5 mins of the Drum, not because he raised that alleged incident, but because he said that the old lezzo was the only adult in the Parliament. I mean, really.
You want to know how bad today was for Labor?
Not even Malcolm Farr was willing to spin it as disastrous news for Tony Abbott.
While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old ringer, whose hand was caught in the squeeze gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old bloke.
Eventually the topic got around to Julia Gillard and her role as our prime minister. The old ringer said, ‘Well, ya know mate, Julia is a ‘Post Turtle”.
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him, what a ‘post turtle’ was.
The old ringer said, ‘When you’re driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that’s a ‘post turtle’.
The old ringer saw the puzzled look on the doctor’s face so he continued to explain. “You know she didn’t get up there by herself, she doesn’t belong up there, she doesn’t know what to do while she’s up there, she’s elevated beyond her ability to function, and you just wonder what kind of bloody idiot put her up there to begin with.”
Best explanation I’ve heard yet.
Safety in numbers.
I reckon they all got their inspiration from Jonestown.
They are the biggest group of galahs and batshit crazy women in the history of political parties.
Game on! LOL.
C.L.
21 Mar 13 at 9:40 pm
To b fair, CL, Rudd, Crean, Roxon, Conroy and Crean* deserve some share of the credit.
*do you like Crean
pete m
The sad part about that joke is that I was sent it in an email in early August 2011 – more than 19 months ago – and she’s still our PM
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Porn shops in Fyshwick complain of drop in sales.
News at 11.00
Oh golly. He punched a wall! A wall! Tears of distress course down my cheeks at the very thought.
The SS has destroyed the Brown Shirts..
Well, when we drink the cordial and the spaceship comes to rescue us and you’re left behind, who will be laughing then, eh?
Apropos of Feeney on Lateline..
Well, duh!
Tim’s out of town on his charity bike ride.
That’d be $268,836,000.
She’s borrowed, since Feb 28, daily, $400,011,267.
Yep, The Slapper has borrowed $400m per day in March.
Strike a light! Imagine mounting those heads on the wall of your trophy room? House of horrors.
Snowcone is really rubbing it in. He would have been a good press secretary for Robespierre..
*Punched a wall according to the lone testimony of his political enemy who forgot to mention it in letters to the student newsletter about him, multiple interviews about him (latest 2004) and let this new previously unheard of story be broken by Matthew Newtons radical leftwing nutjob celebrity lawyer on Twitter after he “interviewed” her twice about it.
Marles has done himself the world of good.
Third time’s the charm, eh Goose?
The knuckle draggers of the ALP are the only ones in the world who have perfected Russian roulette …..they use 6 bullets !
Anyone ever been to Nundah? Swan’s local office is a mere stone’s throw from a good coffee joint. You only have to walk about a 100 meters from there to find a moribund shopping area, with for lease signs. There is a biggish residential/shopping zone under construction, but it won’t be cheap. We’re talking about 5 to 6 kms from the CBD , and it should be a vibrant area. A walking tour..it isn’t.
Raven..they need all 6. Hard to hit the sweet spot in a leftard
A proposal. Given that Hammy, Monty, SofB are probably mainlining Thorazine at the moment, how’s about we let one of them to write the 1000 post. I know, I’m a softy, but in the spirit of NDIS and all..
What say ye all?
No. They don’t deserve any special privileges in their lives only misery and the contempt of others.
Abbott’s excellent speech from today’s Spillard.
Hockey did very well too:
Steve …they could load with dumb dumbs , that might help a little .
Skipped hours & hours but Krudds followers are now in the wilderness looking for a new messiah. Half of Gillard’s numbers which were anti Rudd now up for grabs. Once the budget comes out with more red ink than the St Valentines’ day massacre, the real owners of the ALP will come into play: wait and see a ’3rd’ candidate come into play in order to stop a full rout.
Raven..dum dums on a leftard are like paper on paper in the game paper scissors rock. No win..
WALLOGYNIST!
A Goose is the gander who saw neither that the matters our none-too-bright Treasurer said are ended by Gillard’s continuing leadership include our future prosperity, nor that the prime minister said the whole business of leading the Labor party is at an end.
Am in a foreign country. Have not long woken up to this. HOLY FUCK, what did I miss? Wow.
No, Mr Abbott – don’t throw them out now. Though it may do Australia several months more damage, let it go until you can take both Houses in one sweep.
The ALP spreads opportunity by stomping it into a fine paste, spreading a little, thinly, over token demographics, and the rest goes into the pockets of somebody like Obeid.
You reckon that was a farce. Well grab the popcorn. Paul Kelly:
Barnett ran a successful minority government in WA. But, in the hands of an unintelligent, amateur like Gillard, minority government institutionalises instability.
So now, in her impenetrable thickness, the idiot’s “steely resolve” becomes arrogant obstinacy. She will become deafer, with the result that the frequency of the stuffups and misjudgements will increase.
Then insert Jock McSporran’s brain-damaged modus operandi: daily announcements and endless “reform”.
The main casualty of the next five months will be the economy as what’s left of business confidence evaporates.
Grit you teeth and all aboard the karma bus. The reward is that, in six months, the federal parliamentary Labor Pardee will barely exist.
Let the party hacks and zealots spin the fact that Australia’s first female prime minister virtually destroyed a 120-year-old political movement.
Just in case you thought the betrayers of the national interest that make this all possible are having second thoughts:
Windor and Oakshott will go to their graves as monuments to self-interest and betrayal of their electorates.
Tim Blair.
Gillard now has the clear air she needs.
Stuff the parrot, it was this. Yesterday Rudd lost his sandal and the Listers all went after the Gourd. And Crean did a very good Spike Milligan impersonation.
Now I’ve caught up.
What an amazing farce on Friday. A train wreck.
I want to say that now, no matter what happens, the ALP and Gillard are broken and there’s not enough glue to repair them.