Perhaps, I Really Am Clairvoyant Or Is Politics Just That Obvious?
The wonderful serendipity of the internet caused me to stumble across something I wrote or in February, 2017. (You can read the whole thing if you like by clicking on this link: The Future Is Different! If That Seems Obvious Then Why Are So Many Acting As Though It Isn’t!).
Anyway, remembering this was written in 2017 which was before 2019 where those with long memories will remember that Scott Morrison told us that Bill Shorten would destroy the weekend with his plan to have a 2030 target for EVs of fifty percent of new cars sold. Those with long memories will also remember that Mr Morrison assured us in 2022 that he said nothing against electric cars and that he was just against Labor’s policy of “forcing” everyone to have one by adopting a target of 50% electric vehicles at a date ten years into the future. In the 2017 piece I wrote:
Actually, I wonder if Tony and Malcolm and Scott had been alive a hundred years ago whether we’d have heard something like this:
“The horse and cart will be part of our transport mix for a long time to come. Some states are putting unrealistic targets on the number of automobiles and are suggesting that by 1930 we’ll have as much as fifty percent of our goods moved by truck. Let’s be clear we need a baseload system and you can’t go past the horse for that. While some people are complaining about the horseshit, we think that it’s important to remember that it’s a naturally occuring thing and good for plants, so how could it be damaging to anyone’s health? The fact remains that automobiles are currently much, much more expensive to run than horses and they are nowhere near as reliable. The idea that they’ll ever be produced in the sort of numbers that would bring their price down to where they’d be able to compete with horses is just a silly dream. Besides, it’s all right for those in the city, but once you venture into the country, where will you get the petrol from? It’s not like they’ll ever have a way of providing petrol outside the major cities like Sydney and Melbourne. No, we in the Liberal Party are committed to the horse and cart, while Labor are pushing transport costs higher with their suggestion that the new, expensive invention can provide a reliable means of transport.”
I must say that I’ve decided that I shouldn’t be writing satire. Instead I should be writing speeches and electoral material for the Liberal Party because I imagine that it’s a very well paid job. Ok, I might have to tone down the irony a bit, but if that’s too hard, I could always write David Littleproud’s speeches, or take over Vikki Campion’s column, unless the latter job comes with the requirement of marrying Barnaby.
Speaking of Ms. Campion, I notice that she was quoting “research” which suggested that wind farms could make bushfires worse because there’d be a “drying effect” downwind. While I’m not an expert in the field but, unlike Andrew Bolt, I actually have a tertiary degree even if it is in Arts with a Drama Major, I still feel that I am qualified to ask respectfully, “What the actual fuck is the person on?”. If someone has more expertise than me on the topic, I’d like to know how placing a wind turbine or two in front of a wind would create more a stronger wind behind the wind farm and whether that would lead to a significant drying of the bush.
Notwithstanding my objections to Peter Dutton’s world view, I am quite prepared to forego that if the price is right and offer a few thoughts for his attempt to pretend that the Coalition have actually developed an energy policy that will last longer than Liz Truss’s tenure as British PM once they were in government.
Liberal Energy Talking Points for Election:
- Renewables need renewing whereas once we’ve used uranium in the nuclear plant we won’t be using it again.
- Wind farms will slow the wind which will make the planet hotter.
- While gas and coal can be taxed, we can’t tax the sun or wind, so there’ll be less money for things like hospitals and roads.
- The sun won’t last forever and once it goes, solar won’t work.
Mm, I hope Mr Dutton doesn’t see these and purloin them without giving me a job!
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Return to home pageyou can’t make this stuff up !! Spot on !!!
You need to copywrite those “policies”, Rossleigh, or the theiving bastards will steal all of your glory.
Just a question, from a mere mortal with a few too many ales under the waistline, but based on “Campion Theory” if a whole bunch of wind turbines are put in series, like batteries, and pointed West, Planet Earth could be made to spin backwards. Or faster. Or sideways.
And another thought. If Banarnaby Joke put a vertical axis turbine into his hat, he could either power more braincells, or he could give the one that is working more juice. That way, he’d be less costly to run.
They are still at it indirectly, as observed via Google alerts, now the global but mostly Anglo fossil fueled right has learnt how to leverage social media and right wing influencers to broaden and deepen their repetitive talking points, then transfer to peer and community word of mouth (a la ”The Brainwashing of My Dad’ with FoxNews in central lead, since 2010?
Fox Board Abbott, who is employed in Hungary at Danube Inst. partnered with US fossil fueled Atlas – Koch anti-Ukraine Heritage Foundation (Abbott squeaked support for Ukraine in NewsCorp media twice, so that’s alright then?), as his Russian speakjng advisor allegedly is.
However disappeared from website after Putin’s invasion & direct calling out of visiting fellows from another conservative, Applebaum (who used to work with their boss O’Sullivan); Abbott’s colleagues make him appear moderate…..
If you follow his advisor’s Twitter account, some anodyne right wing opinion, but reeks of climate science denial (Covid, esp masking too) and attacks on all things renewables, EVs etc., plus lots of retweeting anti-immigrant, anti-centrist and anti-EU posts with Fox, GB News, Farage, EDL, Reform and Koch related content at Tufton St.and now constant denigration of Starmer (Albo & Biden too); his many followers are mostly UK RWNJs who view the Tories and The Telegraph, as left wing….
Concern one has, is that no one in Australia cares about holding these types to account, because it’s ‘over there’, too complicated, or media and Australians are fearful of RW authority?
However, it replicates GOP types’ cautious behaviour, who are fearful of Trump, MAGA, RW MSM, donors, conspiracy theorists, God botherers, their followers and even their own social circle; who threaten and intimidate critics with their propensity for law suits or SLAPPs and violence to protect power…..
As I said once, if the right-wing potties want to fart that wind turbines are useless when the wind doesn’t blow, all they have to do is strap Tone the Botty to one and he’d do enough farts to power one for a decade! Vikki Campion is farting enough wind to power a turbine for a century with that crap! The Liberal Party is so devoid of policy and so distanced from reality that it’s hilarious.
Great read Rossleigh. And a hundred years on the LNP still have the horse and cart mentality. I wonder how a political party ever made it this far while continually looking backwards.
Ha ha ha haaar,
The Best Laid Plans of Nostra Dutton
We’ll all be rooned said O’Brien Ted
And bossman Dutts the head and mote
And all the shills of LNP
Should Labor win the vote
No matter what they try to do
We’ll just say no
And say they’re mad
That we’ll all be rooned
Says bossman Dutts the head and mote.
We have a plan no details said
A sinecure for all our heads
So rooned we’ll be if Labor wins
All will know we’re drunk or dead instead.
Says bossman Dutts the head and mote.
The hideousness of this Trump clone and spawn of the far rabid right is repulsive in the extreme.
https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/peter-dutton-calls-for-cooler-heads-after-hezbollah-flags-appear-at-protests/news-story/b8867b9f2e90537d67a41abc1da58221
We’re completely screwed if this thing from a dark dimension (even the Cenobites would disown him) becomes PM.
So much for the Green’s and their “honesty” and “transparency” in politics.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/bandt-ducks-questions-on-cox-cuts-short-press-conference-20241003-p5kfks.html