The Liberal Party - How long?

[MC Bad Genius]

This guy AGAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





When's it gonna ****en end with these mutts ??
AGE OF ENTITLEMENT

Is there a better link than the UK edition of the Daily Mail though? There are stupid errors the whole way through, not least when they caption a photo of Roberts and his wife by saying they're both the person pictured on the left.

That being said, the story being reported is quite ridiculous. Its only a small amount of money in the grand scheme of things, but how could he possibly think that was a claimable expense? Just boggles the mind.

 

[pastmyprimus]

If I join the liberal party now, could I be leader of the opposition after the election?

The way the NLP are travelling, you could be leader, treasurer, foreign minister and health minister.

 

[NSWCROW]

Is there a better link than the UK edition of the Daily Mail though? There are stupid errors the whole way through, not least when they caption a photo of Roberts and his wife by saying they're both the person pictured on the left.

That being said, the story being reported is quite ridiculous. Its only a small amount of money in the grand scheme of things, but how could he possibly think that was a claimable expense? Just boggles the mind.

Welfare recipients have topped themselves for less over robodebt

 

[Maggie5]

Is there a better link than the UK edition of the Daily Mail though? There are stupid errors the whole way through, not least when they caption a photo of Roberts and his wife by saying they're both the person pictured on the left.

That being said, the story being reported is quite ridiculous. Its only a small amount of money in the grand scheme of things, but how could he possibly think that was a claimable expense? Just boggles the mind.

https://www.theweeklyn.com/2019/03/...00-so-he-could-attend-a-hillsong-mega-church/

 

[Kram]

Welfare recipients have topped themselves for less over robodebt

Hang on I thought people on the dole have it easy, like being on permanent paid holidays?

 

[NSWCROW]

Hang on I thought people on the dole have it easy, like being on permanent paid holidays?

It ain't easy washing sand out of your arse-crack

 

[ep2018]

Feels similar to 2013, except it was Labor on the verge of extinction that time. I think we all underestimate how the voting public forget the grievences of the party in charge.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

Obviously the robo call pensioner scare campaign didnt get the desired fear levels

Those turds at LNP HQ are too dumb (or too arrogant, or both) to grasp that unlike their embarrassing attempts at scare campaigns, the reason Mediscare worked so well is coz it was the truth.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

They know they wont get elected the only way to get elected as a RWNJ is to lie

True.

 

[Hawk Dork]

And Pyne is now official...gone

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

The way the NLP are travelling, you could be leader, treasurer, foreign minister and health minister.

I started life pretty conservative, and have moved further and further left as I’ve aged.

Maybe I need to rediscover my roots as an actual conservative (ie one who believes we should conserve the environment, just for starters), put my hand up for all those gigs, and drag the Coalition back towards the centre at last.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

ABC reporting Pyne will quit politics.

Wants to take a holiday in Norway.

Pyneing for the fjords.

 

[Jascave]

Good luck trying to explain the equivalent of a 15 goal loss in the ‘Australian politics’ Grand Final to the Liberal Party Council (ie board of directors), Scott Morrison, because that’s exactly where they are heading right now. In fact, with Pyne’s retirement now confirmed, we could be looking at possibly the most one-sided election night since 1975.


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[kranky al]

Wants to take a holiday in Norway.

Pyneing for the fjords.

Well they shouldnt have dumped the subsides and we might still have fjords and hjoldens made here

 

[RonSon]

Pyne was the least likely beard ever but has played the roll well.

They will have lost all their big "celeb" draw cards.... Truffles, Asbestos Queen and now The Fixer.

The rest are B grade at best as talking heads in the future

Hahahaha. It's so sweet.

 

[pastmyprimus]

I started life pretty conservative, and have moved further and further left as I’ve aged.

Maybe I need to rediscover my roots as an actual conservative (ie one who believes we should conserve the environment, just for starters), put my hand up for all those gigs, and drag the Coalition back towards the centre at last.

I've voted Labor most of my life, mainly because I work for the health system. Can still remember the time Howard made massive cuts to hospital funding. I was working in SA at the time. The state was struggling, and it felt the hit more than most. Made me more of a Labor person.

The LNP needs a good clean-out and I think that will happen at the upcoming election. Wishful thinking, but I hope the replacements think more like you.

 

[Father Jack]

Feels similar to 2013, except it was Labor on the verge of extinction that time. I think we all underestimate how the voting public forget the grievences of the party in charge.

The thing is that Labor themselves seem to have forgotten their own grievances with the departure of the personalities involved, the issue for the Libs is that their grievances are more ideological and they look grimly determined to hold onto them

 

[kranky al]

I started life pretty conservative, and have moved further and further left as I’ve aged.

Maybe I need to rediscover my roots as an actual conservative (ie one who believes we should conserve the environment, just for starters), put my hand up for all those gigs, and drag the Coalition back towards the centre at last.

I went along a similar path - voted howard till workchoices then started looking elsewhere.

Argued fiercely for years in favour of conservatism however the more id read up to try and support my arguments - the more i realised many of them were paper thin.

Ive seen what unions can do to be a positive - ive also seen them be a negative.

Ive seen them being bloody minded in hard times to the point where a large perth developer, who wasnt really making that much money out of a big development but just kept going to keep his crew together - the unions insisted on a doctor on site when there was a doctors surgery next door.

Net result - 100 or so blokes out of work
He retired from the industry.

Many of the militant unions made a rod for their own back with scurrilous strikes - can remember fridays up at tom price with every car rocking up with a tinny or a caravan ready for the “urgent safety/ whatever issue to be voted on and being told to “put your ****ing hand up arseh*le”

They turned the general populous against them and the right gleefully seized on it, weapons grade propagandised it and played divide and conquer.

which is a crying shame as we need unions now more than ever.




As i said ive seen unions step in to stop blatantly unfair / dangerous practises. Without strong unions weve watched pay and conditions slip whilst the rich got richer.




All the unions suffered from the actions of a few.

I like to think we can find a happy medium between being a fair and just society and allowing individualism - i think we had the mix largely right in around 1992 and its slowly eroded since then.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

Half the Libs are born to rule toffs, the other half are Daily Mail readers who convince themselves they can't express their opinons about Sudanese transgender lesbians.

There is a genuine schism in the party which Howard was skillful enough to manage. Although he started these culture wars back in the 90s.

 

[Hawk Dork]

Half the Libs are born to rule toffs, the other half are Daily Mail readers who convince themselves they can't express their opinons about Sudanese transgender lesbians.

There is a genuine schism in the party which Howard was skillful enough to manage. Although he started these culture wars back in the 90s.

Howard didnt mange them he opened the door to them.

And the standard of the young Libs coming through and half the population being able to vote Abbott will continue the legacy

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

I went along a similar path - voted howard till workchoices then started looking elsewhere.

Argued fiercely for years in favour of conservatism however the more id read up to try and support my arguments - the more i realised many of them were paper thin.

Ive seen what unions can do to be a positive - ive also seen them be a negative.

Ive seen them being bloody minded in hard times to the point where a large perth developer, who wasnt really making that much money out of a big development but just kept going to keep his crew together - the unions insisted on a doctor on site when there was a doctors surgery next door.

Net result - 100 or so blokes out of work
He retired from the industry.

Many of the militant unions made a rod for their own back with scurrilous strikes - can remember fridays up at tom price with every car rocking up with a tinny or a caravan ready for the “urgent safety/ whatever issue to be voted on and being told to “put your ******* hand up arseh*le”

They turned the general populous against them and the right gleefully seized on it, weapons grade propagandised it and played divide and conquer.

which is a crying shame as we need unions now more than ever.




As i said ive seen unions step in to stop blatantly unfair / dangerous practises. Without strong unions weve watched pay and conditions slip whilst the rich got richer.




All the unions suffered from the actions of a few.

I like to think we can find a happy medium between being a fair and just society and allowing individualism - i think we had the mix largely right in around 1992 and its slowly eroded since then.

Great post. I think I'm a generation ahead of you. My faith was destroyed by the do-nothing Fraser govt (and then of course, Fraser turned out to be a great humanitarian, the likes of which are glaringly absent in the current Liberal party.)

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

The thing is that Labor themselves seem to have forgotten their own grievances with the departure of the personalities involved, the issue for the Libs is that their grievances are more ideological and they look grimly determined to hold onto them

And don't care if they half destroy the country as they fight to the death. Arseholes.

 

[Nuggs Bunny]

I started life pretty conservative, and have moved further and further left as I’ve aged.

Maybe I need to rediscover my roots as an actual conservative (ie one who believes we should conserve the environment, just for starters), put my hand up for all those gigs, and drag the Coalition back towards the centre at last.

Fiscal conservatism and pro-business politics shouldn't be seen as an inherently bad viewpoints because they aren't, it's just the LNP has made them synonymous with treating people like shit in the process. It's doubled down by their decision to couple that with a socially backwards agenda despite a lot of traditional liberal seats being some of the most progressive in the nation. Throw in some blatant corruption and it's not hard to see why a lot of high income earners, sole traders & business owners are going to vote against the party that traditionally represents their interests this year, myself included. There's only so much self-hatred one can endure.

 

[Pessimistic]

Apart from all the philosophy, the wedge addiction has made them lazy. (Apart from getting expenses claims in it seems)

Ironically one of the dog whistles they use is calling the lower classes lazy

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

Fiscal conservatism and pro-business politics shouldn't be seen as an inherently bad viewpoints because they aren't, it's just the LNP has made them synonymous with treating people like shit in the process. It's doubled down by their decision to couple that with a socially backwards agenda despite a lot of traditional liberal seats being some of the most progressive in the nation. Throw in some blatant corruption and it's not hard to see why a lot of high income earners, sole traders & business owners are going to vote against the party that traditionally represents their interests this year, myself included. There's only so much self-hatred one can endure.

Well said.