John Linton
......that you can make yourself popular making promises but it's a lot harder to deliver them.
I have lost count of the 'back of a bus ticket' election winning "promises" made by this particular bunch of politicians that have subsequently disappeared but it is clear that Krudd's lying strategy is beginning to become obvious to even the dumbest of people. His emissions trading nonsense was theĀ latest of his lies to the Australian voters that got 'disappeared' last week which was his greatest piece of grandstanding con to date. The sheer stupidity of locking Australia into a gigantically expensive tax a few days before the rest of the world will decide to do nothing was monumentally ridiculous and was, without a question of a doubt, simply one more ego trip for that vacuous fool. If he really believed it was anything but grandstanding there would now be a double dissolution.
As it is, Australia can make a decision at the end of the next two weeks based on what the rest of the major countries in the Western world decide. Even a five year old knows that whatever unilateral decision Australia made would not change any aspect of the global climate at all - it would have damaged Australia's industries and Australia's citizens to an unknown extent and, certainly, we would all have been poorer. So he dodged a bullet courtesy of a set of odd circumstances not of his making.
One bullet he won't be able to dodge and the 'cylinder' is moving under the trigger pressure of his own finger is his back of half a bus ticket lie he whipped up for an 'NBN2' which was done to cover up his ludicrous election lie of an 'NBN1" after it was shown to be total nonsense. Apart from the growing amount of media comment that an 'NBN2' simply cannot be built the media, in the way of their kind, is beginning to receive Krudd's spin spivs 'informationals' that suggest that the Federal government will make the ludicrous costs now becoming more obvious of actually building a new Australia wide fibre network acceptable to end users by "subsidising" the costs of monthly usage. Well......words would have failed me but Krudd has introduced such a new standard for lying every time he opens his mouth that you can never be surprised by what he says. Doubtless he will announce an apology to someone or other before Christmas if he is in Australia long enough to attend such a meeting.
Krudd's current 'NBN2' problem, totally of his own lying making, is that he keeps slipping his promised start date for the "Tasmanian NBN" that he tried to cover up the lies he insisted were true by its "announcement" made with the original 'NBN2' lie. Now he PROMISED that the 'NBN2' in Tasmania would be live well before he needs to go to an election. Now if he tried to actually do that he would have to also say that the cost of even the tiny Tasmanian 'NBN2' was so incredibly expensive that 'the government' will have to subsidise monthly costs by at least 50% otherwise no-one would buy it. While he will construct a new house of cards of outrageous lies along the lines of "the small size/hasty build/Tasmanian errors in planning etc" have driven the costs out of proportion he will in fact be forced to call a double dissolution a month or so before it becomes obvious to more than just me that the 'NBN2' can never be afforded but look at what those Liberals are doing to the environment.
The 'leaked' paper shown to me yesterday estimated the cost of an 'NBN2' Tasmanian monthly charge at North of $A100.00 per month with an initial subsidy of $A55.00 a month offered to 'early adopters' for a period of two years until "the economy of scale" of the wider 'NBN2' build out "kicks in". It also suggested that the subsidised price would limit usage to 10 gigabytes with excess charges if that limit was exceeded. It was impossible to determine the origin of the 'paper' so it can be given no credibility; but it makes sense based on the little that is known of the cost of running fibre to new building sites in the various housing projects around Australia and then adding the likely costs of having to do that post construction - even if you did try and run them via overhead wires.
So Krudd will use the next rejection of the just as crazy ETS as an excuse to be "forced to the polls" (only a few months early) before the costs of the 'NBN2' become public pulling down the whole lying nonsense.
Anyone want to bet I'm wrong?