The Strangest Things About The Liberal Party This Week!
In news this week Peter Costello was accused of knocking a journalist to the ground. Some disputed this account, arguing that Liam Mendes works for “The Australian” and therefore can’t be considered a journalist. People in the Liberal Party asserted that they knew Peter very well and, in all their experience of him, he would have the capacity to force a spill, so the poor man must have tripped up on something invisible…
And speaking of invisible, we have the imminent release of Peter Dutton’s nuclear policy. Of course, when I say “imminent”, I mean in his own good time because he won’t be rushed into an early release – or even a late one – just because Labor and the media are demanding it. No, Petey will decide on his own timeline! And then ignore that because he won’t be rushed into releasing it just because he said that he would. After all, the Liberals had nine years in government, and they didn’t allow anyone to force them into announcing an energy policy.
To be fair, that’s just a cheap shot and, in fact, the Liberals did announce an energy policy while they were in government. In fact, they announced several. It was the actual implementation of any of them that gave them trouble.
Sources tell me that Labor are considering changing their renewables target to: “We promise to have 90% renewables before Peter Dutton announces any detail on his nuclear policy.”
Whatever, Dutton has announced that he intends to pull out of Paris which, while sounding like something the Nazis would do or a video circulating on the internet, seems a rather strange way to win back the seats lost to the so-called Teals (or indeed any seats). Most people – even some lifelong Liberal voters – think that something needs to be done about climate change and the Coalition’s inability to commit to Net Zero was a big factor in people voting for other candidates.
Yes, I know that they passed legislation committing to Net Zero but they didn’t actually propose to do anything about it. They were a bit like the person who complained that they read the book they were given on losing weight and told the person who promised that it would help: “No, I’m sorry. You told me that reading this book would help but now I find that I’ve actually got to do the things the book suggested and that takes too much effort…”
The Coalition committed to Net Zero in the sort of way that Trump committed to his marriage vows.
It seems to me that Dutton’s announcement is a strange strategy. While it might appeal to his Murdoch Masters, most people would prefer a party who’s attempting to achieve a target, even if they’re not totally succeeding, rather than one who says that there’s no point in committing to something that you can’t achieve, so we’re not even going to try.
Whether that’s true or not, the fact that he added that he’d pause the rollout of wind and solar farms clearly shows that he needs to zip it because his agenda is showing. Why pause things that will actually bring us closer to a target, even if we’re not going to meet it? I mean you wouldn’t expect to hear a politician say, “We’re not going to meet our target for reducing the road toll this year, so we’re going to pause our rollout of booze buses and speed restrictions.” Every little bit helps, doesn’t it? Unless you don’t actually have any intention of even trying to…
Oh wait… yeah, that’s what he said, isn’t it? There’s no point in trying to meet a target if you’ve got no hope of achieving it.
Mm, maybe that’s what he’s decided about trying to win back seats. As he said about the government’s renewable energy target, ““There’s no sense in signing up to targets you don’t have any prospect of achieving”, so if he’s got no hope of winning back seats then why not just say whatever’s on your mind, no matter how disconnected from reality that may be.
But speaking of disconnected, someone reported that Sussan Ley said that allowing New Zealanders to join our armed forces would devalue ANZAC day… Mm, not sure that even she could be so stupid as to think that it’s AAC day and that NZ in it is silent.
Yes, lest we forget that Peter Dutton was the one who launched a spill against Turnbull but got the numbers wrong and his colleagues – who knew them both – preferred Scott Morrison.
At least he’s safe from a spill for the simple reason that nobody wants the job. And at least he can content himself that he’ll be able to run a better campaign than Rishi Sunak, who announced the election in the rain and managed to get himself photographed standing under an exit sign.
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Return to home pageHave a good, long look at the televised replay of Costello’s unprovoked “attack” against a journalist – even one employed by the LNP’s Propaganda Minister, Rupert Murdoch! It is clear that this thoroughly entitled, smug/arrogant, misogynistic right-wing extremist (Peter Costello), gave that journalist a really good (and deliberate) shove before whining and moaning (like an incalcitrant child) about being (falsely) targeted by the press!
FFS, grow up, Costello! Like most of the infantile, dummy-spitting, devious pathological liars attached to the grotesque LNP – truly the worst, most corrupt, devious, misogynistic and depraved political regime in our history – Costello’s choice to live in his own parallel universe of self-serving deception is an indication of just how delusional the condescending alpha males in the LNP really are!
The FACT is that Costello’s nasty, thuggish behaviour was CLEARLY EVIDENT on the televised replay of the incident and, as such, his pathetic attempts to deny it just PROVE how devious, entitled and incorrigible the lying, dysfunctional political psychopaths in the LNP really are!
Acerbic.
Many Aussies are feeling a bit sceptical, at the best of times and he is one of the causes.
We saw Costello show his real face under confrontation, but how many of us have watched and marvelled at the piggishness of reporters.
But what stands out is the arrogance and ignorance of both.
Peter Shitinaskin Costello is a fine example of upstanding, committed, honest, talented, hardworking, decent young liberal types, alert, vigorous, defender of principles, and honest as the nanosecond is long. We need more of this type, in jail preferably. He, his friends, his colleages, his practices and policies are just what a nation needs, e.g., Attila’s nation, or Adolf’s, or Josef’s…
The funniest thing I read about Rishi Sunak’s announcement was a comment to the effect, Why would you trust someone who says they have a plan while standing in the pouring rain without an umbrella? Similar type of thinking to poor Petey. What I say outweighs what I do.
Actually both Peteys!
On Rishi Sunak; private school education prior to Oxford then Stanford before leaping into employment with Goldman Sachs then into hedge fund grifting; marries one of India’s richest women and assumes he’s king of the world and fit for politics, because… well, just because – believing in his invincibility – except that he’s totally hopeless, useless, utterly unsuited to being a politician, devoid of charm, wit, capacity, empathy, practical intelligence, wisdom, knowing what the right thing to do is at the right time, and, significantly, he jumped on board with the very worst types of people that British has to offer. What a wanker. And loser.
His coming routing and demise are well-deserved. May he quickly sink into oblivion. The tragedy of course is that, like the LNP here in Australia, the years of Tory government have left that county in a far far worse shape than prior to their period in power.
Tim Costello, humanist, voice for the downtrodden and those in need, on all counts apparently a very good-hearted man, and brother to the thug, Peter, bully-boy of the LNP, overflowing in hubristic self-adoration, willing to do whatever it takes to get his own way in the world. Families are often like that,,, good and bad among the siblings or between parents and kids.
Glad to hear the thug’s resigned his chairmanship of Nine Entertainment Co. Untenable, really, to have the boss indulging in shoulder-barging those he doesn’t have time for. Yeh, just piss off Costello, and crawl back under whatever rock you came from.
It’ll be interesting to see how many of his former colleagues rush to his defence.
Little Petey Costello has quit…jumped ship from Nine.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/jun/09/peter-costello-resigns-as-chairman-of-nine-entertainment-effective-immediately
Pea Heart Pete barges towards the exit…as is his M.O.No doubt crying into his Dom Perignon.Just another stain on the underpants of this nation.By comparison Abbott, Morrison and Howard actually shit in their undies.The way things are shaping up,the current seat warmer is likely to shit his suit,outdoing everyone.
On a side note, I see that there was an article about Peter Dutton where he said that he’d make a great PM on the grounds that he made his fortune by 26…
Ok, apart from all the questions that raises from HOW? to WON’T A PERSON WHO HAS SUCCEEDED THAT EARLY LACK EMPATHY? …
Given Richman Sunak’s bumbling display over the past few weeks, is it really the time to announce that you think that being rich is the best credential for a PM?
Maybe Little Petey will be offered a job within Farcetel from the withered prune.
Good government is made better with a good, thoughtful opposition.
NO, NO, NO, NO is not good opposition, it does not look at legislation and seek to improve it, it does not look at a government’s plans and try to destroy them, it works to make things better, it works to improve what is being proposed it seeks, in the case of emissions targets ways of achieving those targets or getting even better results, but no, no, no no Dutton and his bunch seek ways to make the government fail…. as they worked so hard to ensure they failed the last time they were in government.
Imagine going into the next election saying Labor only sought a 43% emissions reduction, with the amendments we made to their legislation we helped to achieve 45% reduction! But NO, NO, NO, NO will go to the election with NO plan except to go nuclear, will go with a defeatist attitude that it’s all too hard, so vote for us so we can all give up.