I wrote the piece below this one before I heard of the Pyne-Abbott scramble for the exit — in a scene reminiscent of Death At A Funeral — and the Deputy Speaker saying ‘No way’ and pratfalls and foam pies and consternation everywhere at 9.15 this morning.
It hastens the end of Abbott and Pyne who have days not weeks now in their present positions and a lifetime of tearing their hair soon coming, and guarantees a vote of 49 percent in the Nielsen Poll (the honest one) on Monday.
And it shows as well that one of the shrewdest politicians in the building is Craig Thomson. On the gibbet with the noose around his neck when asked if he had any last requests he with one bound sprang free and sword-fought the villains to a standstill, heard their blubbering pleas for mercy and slit their throats.
Not since Errol Flynn in Captain Blood has there been a more dashing performance, a more pleasing punchline, a more uproarious double assassination of a couple of creeps or a nicer start to the day.
Now he belongs to the ages.
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That was hilarious.
What a pair of tossers.
and the msm caught themselves out again by treating Abetz as a believable person.
Are you serious? I’d run too if the slimey mongrel Thomson tried to side with me.
You keep predicting the downfall of Abbot (now down to days)but your predictions don’t seem to be that correct.
I am a fan of your writing Bob but this delusional support for Thomson and spinning of him to be some sort of moral guardian is sounding a little desperate and more than a little odd.
Philip, Thomson is a moral guardian though and it is clear he was set up.
Think for a minute. He has an exemplary record as union rep for ambos and others for 19 years before parliament without one hint of scandal or problem or complaint.
Then Kathy Jackson gives Kate McClymont an old carbon copy of a credit slip from 2005 in the name of Craig ThomPson and suddenly for a few minutes there he is the worst criminal on the planet.
He has an exemplary record for his years in parliament without a hint of sin or scandal.
You figure it out.
“Thomson is a moral guardian though and it is clear he was set up.”
Clear to who? The wilfully ignorant?
“He has an exemplary record for his years in parliament without a hint of sin or scandal.”
2 years. 2007-2009. That’s when it all hit the fan.
He’s spent more time in Parliament under the cloud than not.
My understandings that the FWA findings go back to 2002? The police are investigating corruption in HREA going back to the 90′s but I may be wrong.
My feeling is that any alleged use of a credit card supplied by a contractor is the issue most like to see him charged. Though he wasn’t charging his school fees to it unlike another is alleged to have been, nor was he allegedly fleeing from the scene of a Police raid with an armful of documents.
He has nothing to do with any card alleged to be supplying a contractor, he had already left the fucking union.
Who are you cretins that you can’t read.
He was no in the fucking union from 2007-2009 and to date he has not been charged with a single thing.
Do you live in fairytales.
“He was no in the fucking union from 2007-2009 ”
Who’s talking about the Union Marilyn? You said Parliament in the quote I referred to.
Learn to fucking read.
And charges are only a matter of time in my opinion.
You certainly have Noel’s ’Talent to Amuse’ and thanks again for this extra gem. While some people live in a parallel universe (as is and will be seen in the comments section) , Craig Thomson has solved one problem by this foolishness of his – along with his “we” speeches for the ALP recently. “Lunatic” was needlessly expunged federally, for “our Craig” is a mere blockhead, not insane.
Looting and plundering half a million from lowly paid union members is one thing and his statements to FWA and everywhere else (even to Parliament) did give him a chance of claiming to be mentally shot. The “I am suicidal” meme was difficult for the opposition. If he was really insane then he might actually neck himself and there would be hell to pay, even if out if misplaced sympathy for his family rather than thinking (quite properly) of the innocent working class people he robbed.
Thanks to his latest stunts the game is up, even for those who, perhaps, carefully and with some trepidation, actually might have half believed it. They can rest a bit easier now and just keep fingers crossed that the lazy and ineffectual NSW police fraud squad don’t lay those secret commissions charges until there is a break in parliamentary sittings or something.
Going by his comments over time there isn’t anything there in Craig to worry about such suicidal thoughts coming to fruition, especially as now, like some marionette, he can do what he is told to continue the coverup.
You call voting in parliament a stunt, and running from parliament and begging to be let out not a stunt.The parallel universe is yours.
Do you not know that alleging a theft of half a million dollars the Australian Electoral Commission says was not a theft is malicious libel and can cost me, your publisher, a quarter of a million dollars?
I ask you to withdraw it or be banned for life.
He did not loot and plunder anything from the fucking union.
Most of the stupid claim by FWA was that he falsely used money for his election but that was shown by the AEC to be utterly wrong within a few days.
Do grow up you tiresome troll.
The $500,000 was purely a media invention.
“On our interpretation and certainly the interpretation of the courts it made, doesn’t allow the AEC to go fishing. We need specific allegations and specific information about who or what documents exist and who may hold those documents”
“The AEC says even if new evidence revealed any breach, according to electoral laws, too much time has passed to take any action against Mr Thomson”
To cut a long story short there maybe evidence that there was a breach of AEC laws but they weren’t provided with that evidence in time to act on it.
“The AEC’s suggestions include new offences for people failing to make complete and accurate records available and increasing criminal penalties for fraud-related issues.
It also recommended more frequent reporting of relevant expenditure and receipts, increased coercive powers and an extension of the period for which records must be kept”
Simply put again the loopholes that allowed Thomson to allegedly get away with “fraud related issues” it need to be closed to avoid a repeat of his behaviour.
“the commission raised questions about disclosures made by his replacement Kathy Jackson” so not just Thomson at fault either.
“I ask you to withdraw it or be banned for life”.
Bob you might be an expert on defamation (I said ‘might’) and it is your blog, but I would read up a bit more if I were you. Truth comes into it (I have actually READ the AEC material)so your millions are safe.
Luckily, to save you the trouble of having to go over it yourself and from one of the favourite bush ballads from my youth…
And the super cried “There’s an answer there!”
(see Cuchulain May 30, 2012 at 4:31 pm)
Banned for life.
Beseech my mercy in a couple of days and I will reconsider.
“stupid claim by FWA ”
Are you saying the FWA report was completely wrong or false?
Read it, there was no investigation.
Nassios simply decided that the rot in the union after Thomson left was all his own fault.
In one case they made the deranged claim that because that bogus credit slip was dated 2005 yet Thomson didn’t move to NSW coast until 2009 that he was lying.
But wait, he actually bought the house in 2009 and moved to the coast.
The problem is that there were no actual findings.
And if the AEC have proved the delusions wrong already and as he is not Craig ThomPson what is the point of you people continuing to claim the FWA report was real.
I beg to differ, Marilyn; there was an investigation, but it didn’t have to follow the rules of evidence.
Still, I get a chuckle each time I read some simpleton bleat about “misusing the funds of low paid workers” when many of the allegations in the FWA report relate to Mr Thomson providing employment for people in his office.
All he did was read papers supplied by Kathy Jackson.
for god’s sake, read the frigging things.
I hate to talk this way, but it is obvious that you can’t read. Chapter 6 would be a good one for anyone with a schmick of sense.
HINT: It takes 100 schmicks to make up a clue.
For god’s sake, Chapter 6 came to the conclusion that because there were no rules he broke them.
Do you people think I can’t read.
“It hastens the end of Abbott and Pyne who have days not weeks now in their present positions… ”
Can I get an exact date from you Bob? 2nd of June? The 5th? Surely not the 7th, then we’re getting back into the territory of weeks instead of days…
“…and guarantees a vote of 49 percent in the Nielsen Poll (the honest one) on Monday.”
Well at least I know now which poll you actually trust. Now to clarify, what does the 49% refer to? Primary vote? 2PP? Coalition? Labor?
Hmm. No clarification forthcoming as yet.
If I was of a suspicious bent, I could conclude that Bob is wary of comitting to a more specific prediction….
Interesting.
Labor 2PP.
Please someone anyone provide a single piece of evidence that exonerates the man who has brought the union movement and ALP into disrepute.
Where is the John that used the hooker and paid with Thomson’s credit card? Where is the Person that called from Thomsons hotel room, that paid the hooker with thomsons credit card?
You asked us show you the hooker. ACA have one, though she won’t do it for free!
Now I ask show me the john, prove me wrong.
Or show me the person that cloned his cell phone and then the person that only ever called when Thomson was in the vicinity of the same cell phone tower.
“only ever called when Thomson was in the vicinity of the same cell phone tower”
Clearly the spook was tailing him. He is an “international man of mystery” after all…
Barry Humphries was not kind to your adored Craig on Q&A. Or is Humphries wrong?
You are like a tittering little boy aren’t you?
What is the crime in using hookers anyway.
Abbott abandoned a girl he thought for sure was having his baby.
Can you not see at all that by putting on such an abusive, bilious display you undermine the points you are trying to make?
You seem to think browbeating your opponents is the way to win an argument. If that doesn’t work you appear content to try and bore them to death.
I’ve got a certain amount of sympathy for your position but I can’t stomach the ravings of a crank.
You have the rare gift of being able to discredit any argument merely by appearing in support of it.
In consideration of your exhortations to others to ‘grow up’, you might consider behaving less like a 15 year old who’s just discovered the existence of social injustice.
Eight thousand years.
Is Humphries kind to anyone, and when wasn’t he sexist?
Right wing comedians usually leave me cold, but we all grew up with Humphries; and he is brilliant.
Here here.
You two deserve each other.
And isn’t it “hear, hear”, Bob Ellis? Was that a weird bogan joke?
I don’t believe that Quixote creature ever in fact Grew Up. Only in his WikiDreams.
Ohhhhhh Bob Ellis.
I was Fooled
by your Pretty Words.
Humphries is a Hypocrite:
He Himself could do with some
Hairdressing advice.
And Noone is imaging
Waking up next to him.
HELLOOOOO!
Strange you should say that, Glinda; some of my mates have head-shakingly called me Peter Pan, in a nice way, I think.
I’m prepared to let by-gones be by-gones, if you are.
Flaming is not nice behaviour by anyone.
Sorry seems to be
the Hardest Word
…
for Lefties.
The Holy of the Holy
(in their LunchBoxes)
Come to think of it Bob, you have a natural affinity with Craig but didn’t realise until now (I think) that it is because Craig Thomson has modelled himself on the great Barry Humphries character Lance Boyle.
Why wouldn’t Barry be upset with Craig. He has improved Lance.
Sixteen thousand years.
AVO time, I think.
Is there any chance, any slim chance that I can claim any acknowledgment for the idea of Craig voting with the Opposition,as I mentioned on this blog a few days ago, was it an already premeditated strategy option or could it be I instigated a moment in history, please let me believe it was me, any chance at all…sigh?
It was totally you. I also thought that perhaps the “whoops, how did those foreign workers get in there” was a classic allthumbs half pike with twist. And it worked. Gina and Clive’s New Slavery plans have fallen into categorical disfavour.
Keep that thinking cap on.
Yeah go ahead and laugh R1, but Craig’s shouting to me to a night at the bordello of my choice. Gotta go, Slipper is on the phone asking for advice.
Did you notice my very small splash, that’s a sign of talent, very small splash! Yessir.
STOP IT!!!
Craig Thomson isn’t WELL!!
He….needs to….spend time with his Family
or Whatever, OK?
Yeah.
Regret to say allthumbs that it seemed an obvious ploy!
We may hope for a repeat, with Craig timing his saunter across the chamber so that Abbott has to break his new “running away record” closely followed by the attack poodle, and perhaps by the North Sydney Bear, at a fast amble.
LOL
You rain on my parade DQ, he needs a diversionary tactic, and I would recommend a glass booth in his place on the cross benches, a la Eichmann. The booth should have a Thomson with a “P” credit card, a handful of taxi dockets, and the glass door should be left somewhat ajar.A mechanical arm with a pointy finger and death ray should stray up and down the Opposition’s front bench and a voice recording that repeats “I pyne for a bit of brough”.
“Poodle Racing” might be the new sport. (Another Hypo contribution.)
And I wonder why the press gallery have to sit and interview each other as if we can’t see or understand what happened.
Abbott and Pyne are cretins.