It is but eight days since ‘this one’ Rebekah Brooks was arrested for concealing evidence from the wallopers but the Murdoch habit continues.
Not a mention of the Katter Party, already bigger than the National Party, in any of the printed Newspolls or Galaxys. Numbers redistributed as if the Katter Party did not exist.
No condemnation of Channel 7 under Mrs Thomson’s bathroom window. No investigation of the previous mental problems of Kathy Jackson.
No Newspolls, either, asking if Tony Abbott is fit to be an M.P. None asking do you believe Craig Thomson or Pyne or Kathy. None asking if the parliament should be judge, jury and hangman. None asking if Pyne should stand down as Manager of Opposition Business pending police inquiries into his alleged conspiracy with Ashby against the high official Slipper.
No seeking out of the fallen woman/women. No publication of her/their name. No word on the alleged conspiracy of Pyne, Ashby, Abbott and Brough against the second highest officer in the land; treason, some say, in time of war, which this is. This is a time of war.
No poll on Abbott versus Shorten, or Swan, Smith, Carr, Combet, Clare, Plibersek, Roxon, Macklin. No poll on Carr versus Bishop as Foreign Minister. Or Carr versus Rudd. Or Carr versus Smith. Or Carr versus Rudd as Prime Minister. No probe into Pyne’s brothel-creeping past, if any, and who paid for it, if anyone.
No, none of that. Silence gives consent. Silence is a form of concealment, and concealment as Rebekah knows is what you get arrested for.
Below this column is a great breaching of the silence of the sort that Murdoch would never publish, one that changes history and should be read by everyone.
Abbott has weeks, not months, to go.
And I will miss him.
Name:
Chris Murphy’s recent tweet.
“Abbott was charged with grabbing a woman on the crotch it wasn’t proven ‘beyond reasonable doubt’.Give #Thomson same fair go. #auspol”
Using the same logic as the Liberals/Murdochists we don’t need to ask…Is/was Abbott guilty of that which was not proved? The allegation exists, so he must resign now!
Establish your own polling company instead of moaning about Murdoch’s. Ask whichever questions that you desire.
Sorry ALA, My reply was to Bob, who is definitely moaning about Newspoll and may start his own polling company at any time.
Well, I’m doing that.
Please explain why you support the existence of an unfair one.
Bob finding clients needed to pay for his SaladPoll. Hilarity ensues.
Gee that’s funny.
What does it mean?
What a trivial person you are.
And how cruel.
Cruel? Moi? It is you who stands charged for committing a heinous act in contravention with standards of food hygiene.
Fuck off. No food was harmed, only Birmingham’s tense mood made tenser.
You have to have been there.
And you never will.
That I will never sup with you, Birmingham and/or Annabel – at the same time or separately.
Just a mere mortal… hoping to be noticed by a few minor celebrities.
Sorry.
I shall not miss him.
Turnbull will be his replacement and with that, the Libs will come swiftly to power. This, perhaps, is a reason to miss Abbott.
Turnball will emerge a better leader than he was. He will be unable to keep the right in check though.
They have had a good Buswell with Abbott. They will think to themselves, ‘By Menzies! if we got the rabbit dog that far, we may even get our Poodle Pyne over the line.’
I’m not moaning, I’m delited to be pointing out the obvious hypocricy.
What’s your point? You want me to participate in this ridiculous psuedo science so I can lie & cheat by framing my own questions?
Why?
I agree with Ellis these are institutions in decline.
sorry I meant ‘delighted’
and ‘hypocrisy’
yes i know & ‘pseudo’…more haste less speed
Thanks Bob, this has been good to see the hysteria out there. Very enjoyable to watch and the best reading in a long while, a fair bit of your satire thrown in (you and Tony Abbott can kiss and make up later, I suppose).
I missed most of this for the past few weeks while out of the country and if there could ever be an apt summary, a letter writer to the SMH today provides it. With all this effort, CIA-like in its skill (old CIA note, nothing like the past 30 years of incompetence) she poses the appropriate question: “why Thomson?” and “why not Combet, Shorten or Wong…those most likely to actually grasp the levers of power?” Hard to answer that one.
Still, while there wont be any convincing of the rusted-ons (not the working class mind you, they don’t care about the ALP just as that husk of an old party doesn’t care about them either), so it pays to answer some of the people trying to find something – anything – to try and excuse this disgusting parasite Thomson and his mates at the HSU for looting and plundering the union that paid for them to actually work in the workers interests and not their own. This is why even this much-lauded piece by Peter Wicks should be analysed and this will come shortly.
But thanks, for now. This has been very entertaining. And if you think I am being a bit flippant seeing Thomson is stressed and lots of people are fearful for his mental well-being, leave it out. He is the cause of his own stress and I could care less.
No, you’re wrong about that. He was framed. By some bad people. Some really bad people. See the Peter Wicks article. And withhold your scorn for just a minute or two.
No, the hell with you. Do what you like.
Banned for a week.
For baseless, pointless, needless, mendacious cruelty.
Well Bob, My Ryutin was only giving the first reaction, it was mine too, of I suppose most “rank-and-file” unionists…. the hatred for the union bureaucracies and the politicians. (I know you don’t understand it.)
But if Craig Thomson is in trouble because he stood up for the members against the parasites then it is a different story; it would be a different even if he was irresponsible with is credit card.
And he has held himself with a lot of courage and dignity. Among the unwholesome careers destroyed by his vindication might be Julia Gillard’s, that great disappointment. Who have been his friends in the ALP?
This is well reasoned, well asked and well written.
Thank you.
Bob, you asked me to read th Wiks article
I read the Wicks article and reliance on that well-meaning article (I will grant Wicks the benefit of the doubt on the ‘well-meaning’ part) is just as empty and useless as the Wicks analysis itself. Anyone who has read anything on this – and Wicks hasn’t read the FWA report, apparently because he totally ignores the details and reasoning – would laugh at many of the Wicks conclusions. Just a few:-
His Thomson with no ‘P’ point is nothing. Seeing as the Thomson with a “p” card was used by Thomson before and after the escort services would seem to devalue that and his knowledge of banks and credit card companies is sorely lacking. Why, when banks are fussy about ID, it is the UNION ID they are interested in here and it was UNION money – plenty of it – not the banks which was being spent. Now that HSU connection meant plenty of turnover and they would be rubbing their hands with glee at the thought of it (rather like a Bob Ellis card used at the Cruising Yacht Club or Pruniers).
There is too much of the “Craig said in his speech” rubbish. A joke really. So he said Kate McClymont didn’t ask him for a comment? The professional investigative reporter Kate? Come off it. That was a straight out lie by Thomson. Disproven multiple times. And the Wicks reference to the Weekend Australian article does not show the prostitution point he says it did – maybe he didn’t read that either . More ‘Craig said’ guff was the foolish Wicks reliance on Thomson claiming he had alibis for some of the credit card “buys”. The FWA report provides plenty of comment on that and anyone who actually reads credit card statements would note that there are often two dates, expense incurred and expense debited. Perhaps ‘Craig said’ didn’t need reference to FWA reports or, perhaps as I said was more likely, Mr Wicks never read that report.
Lawler, the Kathy Jackson partner had no conflict of interest, his was a different section, nothing to do with the investigative arm of FWA, something acknowledged BY Thomson to FWA yet, apparently re-stated in his speech when ‘Craig said’ again!! Lawler was NEVER “Vice President of an investigative body” and thus the Wicks claim that some official corruption enquiry is required into him on that ground is laughable in its ignorance.
No, the Wicks article isn’t what you are looking for. Well-meaning I can cop, bad analysis and worthless conclusions devalue it to nothing.
Ryutin, why could you care less?
Surely you couldn’t care less, meaning, you couldn’t care at all.
In the immortal words of that red headed escort from Ipswich, ‘Please explain?’
Why couldn’t I care less? Well, if he was mentally ill for years, he would get some sympathy from me I think. If he was not and is just dumb as well as being a grasper, his rorting of the union funds is enough for him to deserve all he gets and if he is overstressed by this, it is down to him and him alone.
If proven (and I reject as laughable most of this ‘they-set-me-up” stuff), this betrayal of unionists and unionism in Australia is the pits and by his and actions of other leaders of that union he has put all the unions into the spotlight and at risk.
Blame the whistle blowers all you like they have done unionism a favour because unless checked, this corrupt cancer would destroy organised labour in Australia and all the work of the real working class heroes would be for nothing. It might be as if WG Spence and his peers never existed.
As someone said, though, Thomson might be an amateur compared to certain others, including his mentor and fellow credit card holder from the mob who did the unions printing at twice the price of any competitor. The mentor who plundered millions from the union. Thomson using five grand of union funds on molls (for him and/or other fellow parasites is nothing, zilch, compared to what these ‘leaders’ did with millions of unionists money.
If Mal Colston for his treachery was worthy of being pursued “to the grave”, Thomson can never have more sympathy than Colston, as a guilty Thomson would be part of not only betraying his members but robbing them also. Preserving an ALP government when that ALP is a hollowed out shell of a once great party is not worth the retching and disgust that accompanies it.
“No investigation of the previous mental problems of Kathy Jackson.”
Desperate, disgraceful.
Counting down the days to the next plebs poll, and an end to all these grubby words, words, words.
Fuck you.
Get used used to losing.
There’s a whole mess of it coming.
Rolls eyes – whatever, Bob.
Wait a week. Look at ‘preferred Prime Minister’. And ‘two party preferred’, on Tuesday.
Julia Gillard PM – preferred by 100% of the 50% remaining Labor voters who still think the ALP means no harm to the country, who would still vote Labor if Craig Thomson was stabbing children in the street every night on the Channel 7 6pm news.
Stabbing children, is he?
Who told you that?
Do you ever listen to yourself?
Do you hear what you’re SAYING?
I was typing not speaking. And I typed an IF.
Prove that I lie (old CIA saying)…
Banned for life at 8.07.
Serenity
“The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever”
A verse in my Australian bible
By my Best Man, Les.
A great poem.