The moment it all changed
It is eight and a half days since Craig rose in the House and an hour after that said Abbott was ‘not fit to be an M.P.’ And the political atmosphere has so changed (as I said it would) that the Liberal Party has no chance any more of surviving beyond 2017 as anything more than a rump.

Last night’, Bob Carr found the moral high ground when speaking of Syria’s slaughtered children; and Abbott lost it when it proved there was reason to think at last that Craig was innocent, or partly innocent, or framed, or unjustly enmired, or baselessly persecuted, after all; and the interview with the hooker vanished from the TV schedule. And the Liberals will not find the high ground again.

They are enmeshed with Gina Rinehart now and they can’t be untangled. Their campaign against the Carbon Tax means, must mean, that she deserves more money than the two million dollars an hour she is currently getting and spending on barbarous vengeful family pursuits; and the many, many public servants they must sack to balance their ramshackle squalid Budget must get less. They are on the side of an acquisitive monster now eating her young; and they can’t get rid of her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvyfkuMjWNI&feature=player_embedded

And they have said they would cancel the money coming to stressed poorer parents to buy their growing children shoes. They voted against this money a couple of weeks ago and they will not be forgiven for it. Katter will seize their rural seats with a promise of protecting jobs there and Labor will yield to his passionate rhetoric and begin a form of protectionism after the Euro explodes and America withdraws from Asia to licks its wounds. And the adventure that began in 1944 will be over: they forgot the Forgotten People Bob Menzies serenaded and remembered only the very rich. And that was the end of them.

For O’Farrell and Baillieu and Barnett and Newman are showing now what they are made of: a greedy philistine vandalistic need to smash up the culture and little else. The broken universities will not be whole again; the struggling old people who lost their savings to capitalistic debacle will not be rescued; the children will not get new shoes, nor the sacked breadwinners free dental care. The Liberals have shown what they are like and the people will not forget, and will not forgive the horror they now propose. They will give the Hungry Brontosaurus Rinehart more meat, more meat, and starve the children of the immigrant and rural poor.

And this is Class Warfare indeed. This is the worst of the world of Downton Abbey with no ameliorating splashes of noblesse oblige or backstairs generosity. It is war to the death.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lOSwVm1jRME


And the Liberals just lost it, once and for all.

The run Tony run thing didn't help either. They are a joke. They've got nothing to offer.

Why is it that publications that trumpet notions like 'independent' are usually anything BUT?

This article is such trash that it would ahve to improve to even be a joke. it is a bit idiotic to talk of the end of a political party that is in absolute ascendency in every political arena in the country.

Independant? the exact opposite in fact. But then again it was Bob Ellis who even the ALP says is a moron.

longweekend58 wrote on Jun 4^th, 2012 at 5:18pm:


Can't be that bad. I see you haven't got a shred to refute it with.

Good thread

There has been 10 posts on this thread and 4 of them has been from people from the right.

None of the 4 of them has attack the OP only the web site I got the OP off or try to twist it around to something else or attack the author Bob Ellis.

So do you think that parents miss out on money to buy their kids school gear and to give Gina Rinehart  tax breaks instead.

If you are not saying anything or attacking the OP it looks like to me that you support the liberal party giving Gina Rinehart tax breaks over working families

There has been 10 posts on this thread and 4 of them has been from people from the right.

None of the 4 of them has attack the OP only the web site I got the OP off or try to twist it around to something else or attack the author Bob Ellis.

So do you think that parents miss out on money to buy their kids school gear and to give Gina Rinehart  tax breaks instead.

If you are not saying anything or attacking the OP it looks like to me that you support the liberal party giving Gina Rinehart tax breaks over working families