It is now clear there will be no successful No Confidence motion or any motion to remove Craig from the House for even a day. Windsor and Oakeshott and Gillard will put up a motion recommending a referendum on future parliamentary rules and Katter and Brandt and Wilkie may or may not vote for it, and the Liberals will certainly vote against it.
And yet the headlines suggest the Government is at imminent risk of overthrow. This was never going to happen. Oakeshott, Windsor, Wilkie and Katter knew that their power to influence events will end at the next election and they were never going to hasten the day of the vanishing of that power nor give up the money they would lose when Abbott, PM, sprang an early election in, say, July.
It was obvious they were never going to do that. Yet the papers, sensing a good Budget, cried crisis, extinction, hookers, homosexual harassment, cabcharge fraud and the rest of it, as though the expenditure of half a million dollars outweighed the expenditure of a trillion dollars. How creepy and corrupt are they.
And a man not fit to run an international company is printing polls he has paid well for which show his enemies doing badly. Why should we believe those polls? Why?
And why would we imagine families getting two thousand dollars in the mail in the next three months would vote against getting the same amount next year? Why would they?
This has been classic Murdoch sliming and fabrication, as in Bigotgate, Iguanagate and the blowjob-rape they charged Strauss-Kahn with, denying him the French Presidency.
While Rupert has breath in his body, he will continue this cheating, this persecution of innocence, this foul play.
Prove that I lie.
Name:
Oakeshott and Windsor will keep this government going for as long as possible for self-interest/income and spite, respectively. Barring some incident that results in a by-electon, it will go full term.
The woeful performance and waste of the last two governments have determined that the ALP will punished so severely at the next election they will be out of office for a very long time. Don’t blame Murdoch, blame the backroom boys and those too smart by half who have only been employed within the Union/Labor movement.
Wearily I once again ask for eight Labor policies you disagree with and think they should be thrown out for.
Just do it. You have all Monday 14th May to do it, before you are banned till the Vernal Equinox.
If you do not do this, you will be banned until the Melbourne Cup.
I wonder how the liberals feel about the great honking thug James Packer and his honking great money pits.
Wasn’t it his dad who said anyone who pays tax is a fool?
Craig
Thomson has not broken a single parliamentary rule so why would anyone want to make new parliamentary rules because one person didn’t break any?
Alice down the rabbit hole stuff.
Right down the hole with FWA who did nothing but regurgitate the “”findings” of investigations into FWA in 2009 for which not one infringment notice was ever served on anyone.
Perhaps the media ought to read their own prior stories.
And accuse Thomson of breaking rules that did not exist.
Simon, you should stop listening to that moron Abbott about waste – there has been so little waste it is a government’s dream.
As for this banning nonsense – that would constitute a double punishment for civil claims no matter how small.
that’s deranged.
Gillard has to stop being so reactionary and remember tha law.
I’d like to see the referendum, which effectively says :
“A member of parliament will lose his seat whenever anyone cares to make an allegation of illegality against the member”
Not only would it get a 2% yes vote but it would make us the laughing-stock of the world.
There’s a rumor going around that the ALP have a trust account set up with $200,000 for Craig Thomson in it if he just keeps denying the allegations and spins out his story of innocence for another 17 months. That sounds entirely plausible to me. More so than Bobs delusions about uncle Rupert.
What delusions are they?
List them, pray.
Frank?