Need I Say More?
Jan. 7th, 2020 08:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingmanProbably, but for now, I sometimes wish more people read my Journal... for all its rantings about global stupidity, interspersed with the occasional pretty picture (IMHO, anyway), I try to be at least factual, if not unbiased
So after my many posts about our current bushfires & the politics behind them - or the failure of politics behind them, you could be forgiven for thinking I'm a bit prejudiced against the current government & surely I'm overstating the case when I say it's full of coal-enriched, blinkered, greedy, fat shits...
Step forward, Craig Kelly MP... I'll hold your beer while you shoot yourself & your government in the foot... with an F88 automatic rifle
To have this ignoramus described on international television as a "senior Australian politician" is as laughable as it is, thankfully, inaccurate. The guy is not a Minister, thankfully, he's a back-bencher with no portfolio responsibility, thankfully. But he is, unfortunately, a member of the Liberal Party's right-wing faction & an enthusiastic spokesman (until the current PM tried to muzzle him - unsuccessfully, it turns out) on Sky News' evening smorgasbord of proto-fascists, for what's been called the Coal-ition - members of Parliament who are so pro-coal, they've been known to bring it into work with them, to spruik its merits. And yes - that's the current Prime Minister who actually did that... Craig Kelly is, unfortunately, also one of the movers & shakers in the back-room who brought down the last Prime Minister, because he didn't love coal enough
I don't often, in fact I pretty much never, find myself in agreement with Piers Morgan, but if even that idiot can see the connection between carbon emissions, climate change & the worst bushfires we've seen in Australia, then could he please emigrate & then run for office in Craig Kelly's electorate at the next election. Anything to get another one of those aforementioned blinkered fat shits out of office...
So after my many posts about our current bushfires & the politics behind them - or the failure of politics behind them, you could be forgiven for thinking I'm a bit prejudiced against the current government & surely I'm overstating the case when I say it's full of coal-enriched, blinkered, greedy, fat shits...
Step forward, Craig Kelly MP... I'll hold your beer while you shoot yourself & your government in the foot... with an F88 automatic rifle
To have this ignoramus described on international television as a "senior Australian politician" is as laughable as it is, thankfully, inaccurate. The guy is not a Minister, thankfully, he's a back-bencher with no portfolio responsibility, thankfully. But he is, unfortunately, a member of the Liberal Party's right-wing faction & an enthusiastic spokesman (until the current PM tried to muzzle him - unsuccessfully, it turns out) on Sky News' evening smorgasbord of proto-fascists, for what's been called the Coal-ition - members of Parliament who are so pro-coal, they've been known to bring it into work with them, to spruik its merits. And yes - that's the current Prime Minister who actually did that... Craig Kelly is, unfortunately, also one of the movers & shakers in the back-room who brought down the last Prime Minister, because he didn't love coal enough
I don't often, in fact I pretty much never, find myself in agreement with Piers Morgan, but if even that idiot can see the connection between carbon emissions, climate change & the worst bushfires we've seen in Australia, then could he please emigrate & then run for office in Craig Kelly's electorate at the next election. Anything to get another one of those aforementioned blinkered fat shits out of office...
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Date: 2020-01-07 01:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-01-07 02:11 am (UTC)The events in both Australia & Britain over the last couple of years, reveal either the shortcomings in, or the complete subversion of, the Westminster system. Whatever this is, it's not democratic - the voter seems to have no control over the outcome, with preference deals, candidate swapping, candidates defecting, or quitting mid-week &, of course, the revolving door at the PM's office
Can a government be declared bankrupt & the administrators be called in?