In which the pond avoids the doggy wars to enjoy a little Matt Ridley trolling ...

The pond had thought it might continue contemplating the doggy wars.

There's a little-known nonentity who leads the Labor party in NSW - give the pond a moment and we might remember the name - and in a bold move this nonentity decided he'd join in the doggy wars for political advantage...

Now the pond can count the number of times that it's agreed with Kristina Keneally - she of the Obeid days - on one thumb, but this time she nailed the nonetity, a man who has been invisible while Mike Baird has cut a swathe through Sydney and NSW with assorted regressive policies and Robert Moses plans...

Former NSW premier Kristina Keneally has launched a scathing attack on NSW Labor leader Luke Foley’s “captain’s call” to oppose a state ban on greyhound racing. 
Ms Keneally lambasted the Opposition Leader’s move as “extraordinary” during a segment on Sky News on Monday. “You know what, I just find that extraordinary. I nearly pulled my hair out today when I heard that press conference,” Ms Keneally said.
“He’s going to fight the 2019 election campaign on this issue. I mean, come on. 

“I think people in New South Wales are a little more concerned about things like this recent budget or hospitals in Western Sydney [that] have not been funded.” 

Yes, the pond has been to Concord Hospital recently, but do go on ...

Mr Foley announced on Monday morning that his party would join with the Shooters Fishers and Farmers party and Christian Democrat Fred Nile to oppose the ban when it is put to the NSW Parliament in August, and would take the issue to the 2019 state election. (the clip is here at The New Daily).

Because Fred Nile and Shooters and Fishers are such natural company for the Labor party...

Now Baird might have done his own deed in a dirty Facebook way, but the pond was astonished that this was the way it was reminded that Luke Foley existed ...

As for the rage about being sold a pup, well it's not up there with a thugby league sex video as front page material this day...

But no doubt the doggy wars will continue and Luke Foley will build a sturdy alliance with Fred Nile ...

It was around this time that the pond felt a deep existential ennui, and the need for a distraction, and thank the long absent lord, one of the world's great climate scientists came along, thanks to The Times and the reptiles of Oz puncturing the paywall ...

Indeed, indeed. It's Godwin's Law in action ...

Hmm, so he mainly uses Twitter to enhance humanity and to walk past ad homs and bitter feuds ... like this ...

The details:

Yes, the trouble-maker and troller actually loves to stir with tweets, and gives as good as he gets, just as he does with climate science - has there ever been a better troller? - and so the pond trudged on ...

There's an easy way to tame Twitter and fence in Facebook, and it doesn't involve the sort of behaviour the ratbag lord proposes. Join the pond. Stop using them. Encourage others to stop. 

But of course Ridley needs the space and the means to troll, which makes it even unfairer that he should have selected out teh Donald.

Why would he select teh Donald for abuse? After all, teh Donald is just following the best scientific advice of our time ...

Indeed, indeed ...

And so on ... but apparently it's all Twitter's fault when it's not Facebook's ...

It seems, m'lud, that the Chairman's Times and WSJ are innocent, sweet little innocents dressed all in white, cheep cheep,  unlike Dick Dastardly Twitter and Facebook,  and so should be allowed to run wild and free, and Matt Ridley with them ... and if you believe that, the pond has a wireless to sell you which will explain how it brought about Pearl Harbour all on its singular own ...