BF2S Forums Australian politics thread.

Have you thought about writing a column or something? I always find your posts entertaining and insightful (being srs here).

So what do you reckon, was Jenkins forced out? The general feeling is that someone like Anthony Albanese convinced him to step down for the good of the party, possibly because of the difficulties Labor had securing Adam Bandt's support for the Mining Tax and the way Bob Brown blatantly had them by the balls. Jenkins gave up the title, the office, the staff, the pay and the pension and for what? To become a backbencher? And yet he definitely is a loyal enough Labor man to take the hit for the good of the party. The only question that remains is that why Labor didn't do it sooner, especially because Slipper and even Oakeshott were possibilities for Speaker after the Federal Election.

It may make Julia Gillard's reputation as a cold-hearted backroom-dealing political userper stronger but you can't deny that tactically it's a very good move - whether it'll work in the long run or not is another matter.

rudd is the man

TimmmmaaaaH wrote:

I wish Abbot would just shut the fuck up, every single thing I have heard him say in the last like year has been either totally wrong (read: any time he has actually spoken about specifics on climate change) or just contrary to what Labor is doing at the time. Even if I was the staunchest LNP supporter I don't see how I could take him seriously.

Yeah I agree. When Turnbull was leader he would agree sometimes and disagree other times (naturally so). This presents him as someone who is a thinker and already has his own set of policies and convictions, and if they happen to run parallel with the opposite side of the fence he's happy to run with it. Abbott's complete contrariness to ANYTHING the government does just comes across as being empty and short-sighted.

Jaekus wrote:

Yeah, it's interesting. This article suggests Rudd was behind it:

In this afternoon's rambunctious session of Parliament, the last for the year, Mr Slipper tossed out four Coalition MPs including Luke Simpkins, Peter Dutton, Tony Smith and George Christensen.

Just last week Mr Slipper held a school visit with foreign minister Kevin Rudd on the same day that John Howard launched the campaign of state LNP candidate John Connelly.

Mr Slipper said that was just a coincidence, but LNP president Bruce McIvor told Fairfax's Brisbane Times that Mr Rudd was behind the deal to install Mr Slipper as Speaker.

Neither Mr Rudd nor Mr Slipper have commented on that suggestion.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-24/s … sh/3693148

I honestly don't know what to think at this stage.

My bet is on Albanese, tbh.

And lol @ people talking about Rudd again. There is actually a reason he was kicked out - he's an A-grade dickhead.

edit: the word on the street here is that Jenkins was genuinely pissed off at some of the policies the ALP is suggesting (gay marriage, uranium sales etc) and wanted to do something about it. whether that was incentive for him to make a jump, i'm not sure.

Last edited by Spark (2011-11-24 19:56:28)

South Australia.

There's your problem.

Little BaBy JESUS wrote:

South Australia.

There's your problem.

was so going to post this.

they don't even have clean water, lulz

Last edited by Spark (2011-11-25 02:13:56)

Spark wrote:

he's an A-grade dickhead.

winning!

Don't know who they are as I don't listen to the radio here.

'Drive Time' = Even worse. Honestly if I wanted to hear vegetables giggling and making fart noises I'd drop round the mental hospital.

Bring back Turnbull.

They should rebrand themselves as the Noalition.

"We're all very sorry that we'll all be at least $50k richer, we really are, especially as we've been cutting jobs and spending. Unfortunately there's nothing we can do about it, it's all this independent body's fault and unfortunately we made their decision binding meaning Parliament can't refuse this awful awful recommendation. Our hands are tied, we're just going to have to bite the bullet and accept all this money."

A message to the Australian media:

Stop talking about the fucking boy who cocked up and ended up getting convicted on drugs charges in Bali. We know the story and it's fucking boring. The idiot got caught, the idiot got tried, the idiot got a minuscule sentence that he served in a week, the idiot came home. The amount we've heard about this non-event is fucking ridiculous and now that it's all fucking over can you just leave the little idiot the fuck alone. It's over, no-one wants to hear from the kid, we all know what happened and we all don't give a shit.

Shut.

The fuck.

Up.