Re: Republican of the Year Reply #90 – February 09, 2015, 04:37:19 pm Bill Shorten thought Tony was gone?
Re: Republican of the Year Reply #91 – February 09, 2015, 04:39:56 pm Quote from: ItsOurTime on February 09, 2015, 04:37:19 pmBill Shorten thought Tony was gone?When you get 41 votes out of 100 by default, and 39 of the remaining 59 vote against you, you are gone you just don't know it admit it yet! Last Edit: February 09, 2015, 04:41:29 pm by LP
Re: Republican of the Year Reply #92 – February 09, 2015, 05:29:52 pm Quote from: LP on February 09, 2015, 04:39:56 pmQuote from: ItsOurTime on February 09, 2015, 04:37:19 pmBill Shorten thought Tony was gone?When you get 41 votes out of 100 by default, and 39 of the remaining 59 vote against you, you are gone you just don't know it admit it yet! I think IOT means he prepared his no confidence speech for the wrong leader Spent the first half of it attacking Turnbull.
Re: Republican of the Year Reply #93 – February 09, 2015, 06:12:42 pm Quote from: Lods on February 09, 2015, 05:29:52 pmQuote from: LP on February 09, 2015, 04:39:56 pmQuote from: ItsOurTime on February 09, 2015, 04:37:19 pmBill Shorten thought Tony was gone?When you get 41 votes out of 100 by default, and 39 of the remaining 59 vote against you, you are gone you just don't know it admit it yet! I think IOT means he prepared his no confidence speech for the wrong leader Spent the first half of it attacking Turnbull.Australian Politics is currently a circus in just about every respect.
Re: Republican of the Year Reply #94 – February 09, 2015, 06:18:45 pm Shorten is shaping up as just another "destroyer" type opposition leader, focused mainly on getting rid of the current government but with few if any policies or true vision for the country. Reminds me a lot of Abbot in opposition tbh - wonder if he's modeled himself on him?
Re: Republican of the Year Reply #95 – February 09, 2015, 06:23:04 pm Watching today the real poor performer was Tanya Plibersek seconding the no confidence motion.Waffle!
Re: Republican of the Year Reply #96 – February 09, 2015, 06:27:39 pm Quote from: Lods on February 09, 2015, 06:23:04 pmWatching today the real poor performer was Tanya Plibersek seconding the no confidence motion.Waffle!She's a dud!
Re: Republican of the Year Reply #97 – February 10, 2015, 08:36:51 pm Quote from: cookie2 on February 09, 2015, 06:27:39 pmQuote from: Lods on February 09, 2015, 06:23:04 pmWatching today the real poor performer was Tanya Plibersek seconding the no confidence motion.Waffle!She's a dud!Dig a big hole, push em all in and back fill it fast before any get out.
Re: Republican of the Year Reply #98 – February 12, 2015, 04:06:40 pm Just keeps getting better.Quote Default Labor oversaw 'holocaust' of jobs: Abbott AAPFebruary 12, 2015, 11:44 am Prime Minister Tony Abbott was met with opposition outrage when he described rising unemployment in the defence industry as a "holocaust of jobs". Mr Abbott was answering a Labor question about the latest unemployment figures, including 7.3 per cent in the South Australia where defence industry jobs have traditionally been strong. "Under members opposite, defence jobs in this country declined by 10 per cent," Mr Abbott told parliament on Thursday. "There was a holocaust of jobs in defence industries." Mr Abbott subsequently apologised and withdrew the comment. He replaced the word "holocaust" with "decimation".https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/national/a/26276495/labor-oversaw-holocaust-of-jobs-abbott/
Re: Republican of the Year Reply #99 – February 12, 2015, 06:14:52 pm I'm not going to excuse him.I've been a huge critic in recent times and he should have been politically much more savvy in this case.I'll just make the point that Tony is the same vintage as myself and in our younger days "holocaust" didn't have the same connection with the death camps of Nazi Germany as it does today but was a more generic term associated with total destruction.Not so today... and it was a very poor choice of words.
Re: Republican of the Year Reply #100 – February 12, 2015, 09:08:01 pm First of all, I have to point out that I wholeheartedly agree with the American think-tank that found that Tony Abbott was the most incompetent leader of a western democracy.However, there is a difference between a holocaust and the Holocaust, as in the Black Saturday holocaust, a nuclear holocaust and the Nazi slaughter of Jews and other 'undesirables' in the Holocaust or Shoah. Yes, it was a poor choice of words by the Suppository of All Wisdom, but not necessarily a career ending gaffe.As a pedantic supporter of the English language, I'm more concerned that Abbott substituted 'decimated' for 'holocaust'. Of course, 'decimated' means the execution of one in every ten and that's just a little more severe than losing your job. OK, perhaps that was too pedantic, but a PM who is presiding over a dramatic increase in unemployment should think before throwing stones.
Re: Republican of the Year Reply #101 – February 13, 2015, 12:20:48 am I think Abbott is a total embarrassment to our country and will go down as the worst Prime minister in our history. But that being said, the reporting of his latest gaff was weak by our media outlets. Yes he used the term "holocaust" which was inappropriate but he immediately withdrew and apologized for his use of the term. Still channel 7 have to get a comment from the president of the Jewish holocaust society.
Re: Republican of the Year Reply #102 – February 13, 2015, 07:59:06 pm Quote from: cookie2 on February 09, 2015, 06:27:39 pmQuote from: Lods on February 09, 2015, 06:23:04 pmWatching today the real poor performer was Tanya Plibersek seconding the no confidence motion.Waffle!She's a dud!We'll have to agree to disagree Cookie. I reckon she's one of the few shining lights in our tired and unrepresentative political system.
Re: Republican of the Year Reply #103 – February 13, 2015, 08:36:09 pm Quote from: DJC on February 13, 2015, 07:59:06 pmQuote from: cookie2 on February 09, 2015, 06:27:39 pmQuote from: Lods on February 09, 2015, 06:23:04 pmWatching today the real poor performer was Tanya Plibersek seconding the no confidence motion.Waffle!She's a dud!We'll have to agree to disagree Cookie. I reckon she's one of the few shining lights in our tired and unrepresentative political system.It's interesting......She usually speaks well in interviews and in public...... but she lacks a bit of fire on the floor of the house...hesitant and lacking in confidence...the government usually hit her to the boundary.She looks OK when she is adding opposition support to government initiatives on things like terrorism, bali 9 stuff...but generally very bland
Re: Republican of the Year Reply #104 – February 13, 2015, 09:01:36 pm Quote from: Lods on February 13, 2015, 08:36:09 pmQuote from: DJC on February 13, 2015, 07:59:06 pmQuote from: cookie2 on February 09, 2015, 06:27:39 pmQuote from: Lods on February 09, 2015, 06:23:04 pmWatching today the real poor performer was Tanya Plibersek seconding the no confidence motion.Waffle!She's a dud!We'll have to agree to disagree Cookie. I reckon she's one of the few shining lights in our tired and unrepresentative political system.It's interesting......She usually speaks well in interviews and in public...... but she lacks a bit of fire on the floor of the house...hesitant and lacking in confidence...the government usually hit her to the boundary.She looks OK when she is adding opposition support to government initiatives on things like terrorism, bali 9 stuff...but generally very blandPerhaps that's why I rate her Lods. I don't have much time for the chest beating performances that are passed off as debate in our houses of parliament. Last Edit: February 13, 2015, 09:36:38 pm by DJC
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