no votes in foreign policy

 

Comrades,

Just quick word of advice for ScoMo here - it's way too early in the Phony Campaign to play the "Red Scare" card, mate. By the time May comes around, folks will have forgotten all about it as the world is overtaken by other events, even if they gave a blue root in the first place. For the vast majority of the electorate it's a shrug of the shoulders along the lines of 'aren't we dealing happily with other authoritarian regimes all the time?' The "Manchurian Candidate" quip in the Parliament just showed up our Great & Glorious Leader as the smart-arsed dickhead that he is. Given Scotty's penchant for The Croods, he's probably never even seen the 1962 movie. And doesn't he understand that there are no votes in foreign policy anyway? Flushing out reds on the beds went out of style with Joe McCarthy, ScoMo. And that was a while ago now. Ever since the demise of the White Australia Policy, no Govt. has ever been elected on its foreign policy platform (and that was really a domestic policy anyway). Even the spooks from ASIO came out of the woodwork to give the Libs a choice dressing down for being "unhelpful". Joisus. Never mind the Maoists, at the minute the only capitalists that the Great Unwashed are likely to support are venture capitalists trying to buy out and shut down coal fired power generation and bung in a fuckton of renewables. But no, the Tories will be seeing out coal to the bitter end, ScoMo said so straight out yesterday, while Labor will be busily promising miners millions of jobs in the brave new world of making zero emissions actually work - and pronto. That's what people care about, after their own hip pocket - and don't you worry about Labor going in hard on the Coalition's upcoming budget's inability to deliver on promised tax cuts after they spent an absolute poultice on the Pando. Chronically underfunded health sector? Nah, that's the States' problem. Aged care crisis? "Crisis? What crisis?" cries the missing-in-action Minister for The Geriatric. Labor would do well to run a scare campaign that the Govt. have secret plans to introduce legislation forcing you to sell the family home in order to get a place in the Twilight Home for The Bewildered. Now there's votes in that, nothing surer.

And then ScoMo goes and sticks his head in the Sydney Trains imbroglio where it's not wanted because it's none of his business. He tried to blame the Commo unions of course, until it became very clear that there was actually no strike on, after photo's began appearing all over Facebook of puzzled train driver's turning up for work entirely unaware that that twit Dom Perrottet has used the classic high-risk Thatcherite tactic of 'the lock-out'. No one was even remotely holding anyone to ransom here, and the public could see straight through such cynical tactics on the very day Sydney Airport opened up to unrestricted international travel...and still the NSW Transport minister tried to blame the "terrorist" unions. Unfortunately for the Tories, the ruse failed completely and just hours ago they admitted it, agreeing to advice from an anonymous senior counsel to end the Fair Work Commission proceedings and go back to the negotiating table where they should have stayed. What a shocker. And they also failed to take into account that terrorist unionists have still got the vote.

It's all very naff of Dick Dutton to go around referring to the leader of the Opposition as "Comrade Albo", but to describe PJ Keating as "The Great Appeaser" because he's also 'soft on China' is a bit of a stretch, old mate. Maybe "The Great Pragmatist" might be more to the point. After all, he was the one who brought us the "recession we had to have". At least he was honest, unlike Honest John. Don't know how many times Anthony A has been on the dog & bone to His Excellency Mr Ping of China lately, but it's probably better than the trade wing at DFAT, who haven't been able to get anyone in Peking to pick up the phone in more than two years. And they're our major trading partner?  Next thing, they'll cast Albo as a great mate of Vlad the Impaler when he invades the Ukraine. But lets face it, if you saw PC Dutton and MA Payne marching down the diplomatic corridors at you, you'd be terrified, wouldn't you? The best Dutton could come up with was offering the defence department's expertise in some kind of "cyber support" to the Ukrainians in the event of the Ruskies turning up unannounced in Kiev, when the first thing the invaders would do would be to cut off the internet (along with the power and gas). Nice offer, when they could probably use a few more bullets and bombs. Maybe some nice white winter camo jackets crafted from Australian wool? They don't seem to realise that as far as The Great Powers go, the little (now recently former) Hermit Kingdom of Straya is a very small fish to fry indeed. So small, they wouldn't bother, and just throw us back in.The voters know this, and they don't care. Some cracking times ahead in the Miracle of Democracy.