Monday 26 May 2008

Mal Borough's messianic delusions of granduer

The Libs and Nats as teh Coalition do not hold government anywhere in Australia.
Not in Canberra, not in the states and territories, and not in any little bush shire.
Yet still we have this Coalition disrupting Parliament whenever it chooses to dummy spit and in the last fortnight we see it threatening to block budget measures.

Now former Howard Government minister, Mal Brough (thrown out on his ear at the last federal election) has the hide to call the Labor Prime Minister
"un-Australian" because he won't appoint Brough to a commission covering indigenous affairs.

It seems that Mal (B)rough is away with the fairies along with his more electorally successful compatriots Nelson, Turnbull, Downer and Abbott.
You lost the election, mate - the country had jack of you.

And, it wasn't just high interest rates, the leadership issue, or the fact that your government had been in power for over a decade.
You were all heartily disliked, chum. Especially when one of you cried that it was un-Australian not to think like you. Then you stank like seven day-old fish left out in the sun.

Just last week the Australian Election Study 2007 was released and was reported
here.
It shows that the Coalition mob had virtually lost the election before the writs were issued.

So try to be a man, Mal - accept that you're in civvy street now and your opinions and desires don't matter more than the next bloke's.
In fact, because you made a bit of a dog's breakfast of your ministerial portfolio, they probably matter a lot less.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

OOps! For the sake of accuracy: The Liberal party is in power in the Brisbane City Council. Lord Mayor presides over the Australia's largest Council with a population greater than Tasmania's.

Anonymous said...

No, the Brisbane Lord Mayor is Liberal which is a different matter than the Coalition being voted in as local government.
And, in fact, when he ran for office he did not run on a Liberal ticket.