The pond is open for weekend business, and there's never been a better time for treachery, double-dealing, rank hypocrisy, and the pursuit of self-interest with the expectation that no-one will notice or care ...
It's also prattling Polonius day at the pond, and whatever torments the noble brow of Polonius is also always a matter of deep torment for the pond ...
Indeed, indeed ... prattle away dear sweet P ... the pond happened to catch your distaff partner the other day on The Drum - others may have the surreal experience here - and felt a sudden surge, no a wave, of sympathy for your plight ... no wonder you resort to print to prattle ...
Oh no, say it ain't so, all that fuss, and for nothing?
But is there a deal to be done, a price to be paid?
Say what?
There would be no preference deals with the Liberal Party, but we can't rule out doing a preference deal with the Liberal Party, except we won't call it a preference deal, we'll just do a preference deal and call it an open deal, because what could be more transparent and open than fudging the actual meaning of words and to hell with the English language ...
Put it another way ...
Back to Polonius ...
Not the nutters they used to be?
Yep, it seems those words were spoken ...
Well it's not just Albo touting the deal, and the pond would like to link to the rest of that Fairfax story, but the pond has joined the strike ...
However we might end by paraphrasing Polonius ... any decision by the Greens to preference the Liberals ahead of Labor, or even worse to call for a bowl of water and wash their hands, Pontius Pilate style, might well have implications they haven't yet begun to think about, but they might recall, if they have access to the distant Jungian collective unconscious, of those fine, but now almost lost to history figures ...
And then there was that other mob in a distant land ...
If only Steve Bell wasn't so gentle and opaque ... and there's more Bell here ...
But enough of ancient times, because some might wonder if there's anything more disturbing than the notion of ostensible caring people getting into bed with the likes of gorgeous George and ever so cute Cory.
They might wonder if there's one certain, guaranteed, absolutely cranked up to 11, 110% way to unnerve the pond?
Absolutely ...
And so to the rest of that Pope, and as the pond's on strike, you can find Pope twittering here ...
And you can find Rowe twittering here ...
Actually Mr Rowe, we can guess, and we reckon it'd be a pretty fair guess too ...
Mourn the passing of the Bolt Report.
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Ok, just one thing then. About this time last year it seemed to get your goat for a noticeable time. How's Labor doing following up that 4 Corners report early last year into the ripoffs, theft, fraud, and pointlessness of government employment service providers? Surely they know the one, the Howard system they also ran for six years. Have they yet asked even one question? Have they had even the most rudimentary scratch at it? Sell outs? Labor sold out to neoliberal ideals, religious fuckwits, and fatcats, oh, around thirty years ago.
ReplyDeleteAlright then a second more recent thing while I think of it, and it grates deeply, look at that hypocrite Macklin promising to make lefty sounding promises again this week. Incredible! She showed exactly what she stands for when in government. Who can forget? In and out of government labor have shown clearly who they are, who they back, and who and what they are concerned about, and it aint what they like to say it is. Sell outs.
Ok DP, a third thing. A party making deals with the LNP disturbs you. Labor does that on almost a weekly basis.
If you think the Greens are the solution, you're welcome to the delusion ... but what happens when a sanctimonious, righteous political party pitches itself as ethical and above the fray, and then sells its soul for a mess of pottage and in the process supports the party that houses Cory, George, Erica and the likes?
DeleteAnd then it turns out that they're just another bunch of hypocrites on the make? Does pointing out the sins of Labor make them different from one whore noting how the other whore is less pretty? Are we talking about the nature of whoredom or are we just arguing over the price?
Nope. You've got it arse backwards, wood for trees too, &etc. The greens aren't the fucking problem, and more power to them.
DeleteThe civil war that you foresaw last week surfaces via Tony Windsor in The Saturday Paper today:
ReplyDelete"It’s just one example, but it grates. The benefits of first-class NBN are on display in the New England city of Armidale, while in Tamworth the stark reality of neglect is there for all to see."
I'm quite surprised you have gone in for the silly guilt by association games that Labor have been playing. The Greens voted with the Liberals because they were voting for something they have been advocating for a very long time, Bob Brown made numerous attempts to get rid of party-allocated preferences going back to at least 2004. Do you seriously think that it is wrong for them to ever vote with the Government even if it is voting for their own long running policy? This has nothing to do with supporting Liberals and everything to do with supporting a democratic reform to put preferences back in the hands of voters. Voting against it would in fact be abandoning their principles for political expediency.
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