Let me take you back. Way, way back to the evening of December 2, 2017. The Prime Minister and his deputy stood arm in arm at the West Tamworth Leagues Club. Joyce had just won the New England by-election by a thumping margin and Turnbull declared he was “putting the band back together.”
Ah, good times.
Alas, rock stars and politicians are, if nothing else, a difficult and unpredictable lot. Velvet Underground reformed and got halfway through a European tour in 1992 before the band’s two enormous egos, Lou Reed and John Cale, remembered why the band had split up in the first place. The two men hated the sight, let alone the creeping presence, of one another. The tour and the reunion ended abruptly, and Reed and Cale went their separate ways.
The Turnbull-Joyce combo did not come to grief because of crippling personality conflict. although it may do so at some time in the near future. But back then the band had only broken up when Joyce discovered his unfortunate New Zealand-news. We subsequently learned the High Court did not so hold and Joyce was off to a by-election that on the parliamentary numbers at least, threatened the Turnbull government’s majority.
Full column here.
Was at a party some weeks back and talking to a bloke I have known for years but only see every five or so. City/country boy; private school, dad is establishment etc etc. Loves Barnaby. Supports moving the APVMA to Tamworth. “Public servants do what they’re told. No-one’s irreplaceable. Support the regions. That’s where the grain is anyway”. It’s not about grain, I said, it’s vet medicine. And Canberra *is* regional and is surrounded by agriculture. Including actual animals. There are still sheep properties next to the suburbs”. Yeah, yeah, right, grain is Wagga. But f*ck ’em. Move. Hire someone else.” (And to be fair, there are veritable hordes of unemployed veterinary scientists out there just banging down the doors).
Was at school with Barny at Riverview. Knows and loves him. And gave me this little pearl, quote BJ: “I’d rather have a fight than a f*ck”. Seems to me he’s rather keen on both, but it might explain why, in the face of enough public derision and shame to drive that other great fighter and f*cker Genghis Khan underground, he has come out swinging. He’s even been tweeting derisive comments at Shorten over his leadership. Smacks of massive delusion and reality deficit to me. Barny was quite an interesting character when he arrived in Canberra, refreshingly honest occasionally and in some ways a modern version of Joh Bjelke Petersen. But he is, in short, incompetent. He’s a born pub manager who gets to be PM every so often and those are not compatible skills. His behaviour since the affair started underlines full well while we cannot afford to give him the reins to the country for even five minutes. And I won’t even start on the perception of corruption. Go away Barny. Buy a pub in Gwabegar.
Save Our Barnaby! A living national treasure!
Great story, TV, and I agree with your assessment.
The guy doesn’t have clue about policy or politics.
didn’t the CSIRO have an experimental farm on the ourtskirts around Belconnen a while back
Sold to developers like everything else
As mad as Jim Molan who want to put a Chinese aircraft carrier on the bottom of Darwin Bay!!
Yes, I see Dismayed has taken another odious personal swipe, this time at the expense of the elderly and the infirm (see his 9.43pm 16 Feb previous topic). You cant get much lower than that. But then again, one can’t be too surprised given his obvious flawed character when it comes to communicating with those who may have a contrary view to his own.
PS. You dont get off scott-free either JB (5.35pm 17 Feb). But I’m prepared to cut you some slack on this occasion. Dismayed obviously sucked you in during one of your weaker moments.
Ah geez, the wrath of Carl! I’m shamed, I’m mortified!
What the hell are you talking about you geriatric god botherer?
Yeah …….. okay, kick a blokes crutches from underneath him and have a good laugh me old mate.
Okay, can do. Where can I find you?
Just shows how sick the guy’s mind is Carl.
To get satisfaction verballing people by bringing the sad life of the elderly in nursing homes into the abuse, behind the veil of anonymity, is weird.
Must be pretty lonely in that front bar of his.
Oh stop it! Do you really know what “verballing” means? Dismayed was simply making a perfectly sensible suggestion to Carl. The poor old duffer had obviously been out in the sun too long. Dismayed showed compassion. It is you who is gratuitously bringing the “sad life” of the elderly to the table here.
You’re getting a bit nutty in your dotage old girl.
Not really, JB.
I’m just one of a few here who doesn’t find Dismayed’s vitriol entertaining or necessary.
He must be a very lonely miserable old guy.
But that’s all about to change – I’ve entered him in the Mens Giant Slalom event, followed by the Aerials at Pyeonchang.
He won’t last one minute but he’ll meet some real men – and find out what they think of his front bar stuff when he gets planted face down in a heap of snow.
You’ve got it bad Boady.
Oh and PS. Damn I wish instead of writing “You’re getting a bit nutty in your dotage old girl” I had written “You’re getting a bit dotty in your dotage” old girl.
If you read both out loud a few times you will see how much better the latter sounds.
Best wishes.
Yes much better, JB. You can get away with your sledging. It’s quite funny. Unfortunately your friend Dismayed is not. And you know that.
You’re calling my kindly advice “sledging.” That’s outrageous.
Dismayed is really very funny, you just need to relax a bit to appreciate it.
don’t defame me carl. I did not take a swipe at anyone. you really are a delicate old petal aren’t you. Always happy to have ago but when service is returned you go straight to the victim card just like Yvonne. I suggested you get someone to roll you back into the hospice. You are obviously suffering from exposure your ranting’s are more unintelligible than usual.
DON’T refer to me as Yvonne, Dismayed. Ever again. My blog name is as you see it above.
Only my friends call me Yvonne -and you are not one of them.
I’m on your side in this instance Yvonne. Dismayed, don’t call Yvonne Yvonne. Okay?
You can call Blofeld Yvonne if you like.
classic.
Very wise advice there, JB.
Thank goodness for that Yvonne.
Dammit! I said……………………… aw forget it.
checkmate?
I’m not sure what happened there Yvonne.
Piss off .
Love
BOADICEA
Language! Yvonne, tell BOADICEA to calm down and be ladylike.
When will lawmakers in America twig that lax gun laws lead to greater numbers of deaths?
The Second Amendment has to go, as it wasn’t designed for these times. Meanwhile, getting weapons, particularly automatic ones, should be controlled to the greatest extent possible under existing legislation.
#fakenews….2amendment..fk u I like guns…..I just wanna kill sumthin today
Too late mate. Bring in all the legislation you like, anyone who cant get an auto weapon out of the existing pool would be too stupid to use one anyway.
I reckon it’s too late as well JB.
Yep! And making it harder to get assault weapons or banning will just send the pathological obsessive paranoid gun nuts over the edge. Resulting in even more massacres.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rR9IaXH1M0
Jim nails it.
Damn right!
I wonder if any of these sex craved politicians will find and loopholes in this sex ban ?…
when do sex crazed look for loopholes?? Seriously
When checking the elasticity and security of the polymerisation product that may be in use so as to ensure against accidental excretion?
so it doesn’t happen then.
Any holes wil do Bill
I heard this somewhere the other day, Triv – a bit dark, but quite funny.
“It’s got more holes in it than Oscar Pretorious’ bathroom door”
🙂
Never heard it called a loophole, is that for loopy people?
The thing that is starting to worry me about all of this is Barnaby himself. He looks a wreck. His life is disintergrating before his eyes and he hasn’t a heap of options. People with big ego’s, and you have to have a big ego to be a politician, don’t handle this type of situation well and do silly things. He has bought this on himself but I hope there’s a mate and a good doctor there to help him out. Nobody wants to see tragedy and if you do you need a doctor yourself.
I wonder, Mr Insider, does Malcolm’s hastily and shoddily put together ban on MP’s and Senator’s having sex with Staffers go as far as to say they, the MP’s and Senator’s, cant have sex with each other? One notes the physical condition of some MPs and Senators and by jingo by jeez no I wouldn’t want them heaving on top of me. We now of course know the reason the big hatted, beetroot faced one used to come into the Chamber all red faced! The QTQ (Question Time Quickie) alas is no more thanks to Turnbull, the master of “Coitus Interruptus”.
Dismayed says,
‘Had to bring this across. With all the blackouts the people of QLD need enlightenment. QLD burning Kero to keep the lights on again.”it also called on the Mt Stuart peaking plant that burns kerosene, or jet-fuel. In Queensland this week – the state with the biggest coal fleet that was forced to turn to plants powered by jet fuel, and imports from NSW to ensure the lights stayed on in the middle of their heatwave. No Surprises.’
Here’s a little linky…
https://www.power-technology.com/projects/mt-stuart-power-station/
Kero 1999 but GAS for many years not Kero!
Will he admit he is wrong and apologise?
Test of character I reckon.
oh dear here is Origins website that states all 3 turbines currently run on KEROSENE. Here is an other link that shows all Generation in Australia and it shows all 3 turbines running on KEROSENE TODAY.
If you go to the Australian Energy Market Operator the AEMO it also says the Mt Stuart peaking plant is running on KEROSENE. All you have achieved is prove again your are pathologically dishonest have a comprehension deficit an have no clue as to what is happening even in QLD So I say again you need Enlightenment but try to find something other than kerosene to light you Way. HAHAHAHAHA. No Surprises.
https://www.originenergy.com.au/about/who-we-are/what-we-do/generation.html
http://anero.id/energy/fossil-energy
I was wrong my apologies. I assumed gas was from natural gas not burnt jet fuel.
It’s odd that one site says it runs on coal seam gas yet another kero. I will make some further inquiries tomorrow.
Oh razor. The stats are in you have failed your own “test of Character” miserably. NO Surprises.
A list below of all QLD Power Stations, Razor. Poor Dismayed still smarting at the embarrassing 24hour shut down of his/her State in 2016. We here in QLD have ample Power Generating capacity and put Power into the Grid for other Southern States when required. Cheers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Queensland
Someone tell me how power generation turned into State of Origin?
It was Origin Energetic
:p
that darling Mr Birmingham..
https://aliensideboob.com/taste/bonerby
Yehaaaah! Coffee nostril spray snort warning next time please smoke.
hells teeth he’s got his wife, or did..he is fkd raz ….gawn
aaaaww C’mon I sez Birmingham…sheesh.
fair enough. Nothing can prepare for a classic like that.
Superb link smoke. 👽
mmmm…a bit alarming I think..Chauncey is our best??
How long before this makes David Gilmour and Roger Waters’ split and the end of Pink Floyd, or that of Don Henley and Glen Frey and the Eagles, look amicable?
Dwight referred to the Floyd imbroglio, too. Remember when they reunited at Live Aid? They all played perfectly. Gilmore note perfect as per. Afterwards Waters insisted on a group hug. He seemed to relish it but the body language of the others, Gilmore especially, was, “Gah, get this man off me.”
And the Beatles (John and Paul). There’s even a surrogate for Yoko.
Turnbull must be thinking “Why did I give up making extra millions to spend 14yrs of my life to accomplish what? The wasted years” After Abbott and McMahon Turnbull will be the most ineffectual PM we have ever seen. After the Abbott train wreck he offered so much hope which resulted in ultra disappointment. He will be wishing after next year he should have taken on the hard right and pursued the policies he really believed in-basically the ones sad to say Stan will be elected on Bald.
Rudd, Gillard?
I’ll see your Rudd, Gillard and raise you an Abbott, Turnbull.
How far we have fallen!
Rudd and Gillard legislative programme and economic successes during the GFC dwarfs anyhthing this mob will ever achieve.They had a difficult Senate yet still achieved 900, 000 jobs, the third lowest debt in the world and unemployment in 2012 of 4.9%.something this mob cannot get near in what are describes as good economic times.One of only 3 economies not to go into recession during the GFC.
Yes, I’ve given up looking for Turncoat’s spine long ago, just as he did when he bought the job Bassy.
So this Bonking Beetroot (the staff at work all keeled over LTAO) appears to have resumed some control today however I also see that the National Party are behaving like they’re the actual ‘boss’ of the Libs.
So which party governs Australia & just who is PM now?
Is the GG on extended hiatus or does he struggle with knowing when enough’s enough? Anyone have his email address…😨
Other countries that have coalitiln agreements make them public.I wanna see what Turnbull signed us up to.It is clear is Joyce is only concerned about losing his $416, 000 plus perks and $700 a night motel allowance for bonking in Canberra even when parliament is shut down.A selfish mean ocker of a bloke who will not step down for the team and would rather see the govt fall than show a bit of nouse.Without a doubt Anderson, Trussrod and Vaile will be telling him to give it up. At least Sinkers kept his privates private.
My question to you BASSMAN without notice is given the poor set of skills we have seen from Turnbull how on earth did he make any money at all? As for Abbott maybe the term “train wreck” could with hindsight be too harsh, perhaps “train derailment” to err on the kind side. Cheers
I look at some of the dunces that were in my last school year that are multi millionaires. Brains, intelligence and business acumen, the ability to make money are vastly different skills
I say BASSY, I’ve noticed your obsession with other people’s wealth and the price of chump chops appears to be the one constant colouring your day-to-day thinking. Just as a matter of interest, do you ever have alternative fantasies during the night time hours when your postural muscles are relaxed and you consciousness is suspended? Incidences of involuntary eroticism excluded, of course.
I haven’t a wet one since I was 14 Bald. The only erotic thoughts I have are associated with food. In 5 weeks I have lost only 6lb
sounds like maintainable weight loss.
10cc?
I nearly had a wet one the other night but I fell asleep!
Agree Bassy. Why would anyone, who can earn millions in the real world, want to be in Canberra?
Give it to Beaconsfield Bill and he can fix it.
Proves beyond any doubt power is more important than money “Dad, I made it to the PMship like I said i would when i was a kid”.
Tend to agree, Bassy. But sheesh, I’d rather be out there making more money than putting up with this crap!!
You haven’t noticed that big payout for savvy politicians comes after parliament?
There’s opportunities for serious networking while PM. Personally I don’t believe for one moment serious conservative politicians are working for the nation.