John Linton
other than dramatically increasing his air miles and losing half of his hair?
I assume the coalition parties have kept track of Krudd's lying statements he used to win the last election based on the strategy of "I will do whatever John Howard will do except I'm a nicer person". All I can see he's done is to replace the "dramatically bad for working families" Work Choices industrial legislation with something that is nearly identical. Of course he has also "apologised" to numerous groups of people whose demographics I can't remember while setting a new record for also saying "and I make no apology" more times in any given week than anyone has ever done in any given year before....perhaps he should have combined his approaches by saying "I make no apologies for making this apology"?
He "signed Kyoto" and then did less than the Howard government did in terms of its requirements without "signing Kyoto" and I doubt more than one in ten thousand Australians even knew at the time what "signing Kyoto" meant - it meant absolutely nothing. He also ran an "Ideas Summit" notable for the fact that it produced no ideas and set a new low for describing a collection of fruit loops meeting under the direction of a collection of vacuous air heads by the word "summit". I suppose it also demonstrated that Krudd had even less ideas than that group of mindless morons whose ideas of an "idea" made the long term inhabitants of "Lubyanka On Sussex" look less criminal and dishonest than usual for a month or so. Peter Garrett (Minister for the destruction of the environment), single handedly, demonstrated that being a pop singer who had abused various substances for a decade or so didn't actually qualify you to do anything but daze away your life only doing harm to yourself and courtesy of the Labor party managed to do more destruction to Australia's environment in the shortest space of time than had been done since the 'invention' of clear felling.
The graceless and constantly gratingĀ (does that woman ever shut up?) La Guillotine, whose constant screeching vocalisations have broken more sound systems than a defective Van Halen CD, has had three hair, make up and dress sense reconstructions (if such a description can be applied to Ms Gillards or her retinue's choice of clothing for her) that even a dumb male like me can notice over the past 18 months but her elocution teachers have failed miserably and her mispronunciations of common words (we are still apparently ruled by a "gubmant") are still delivered in her octave cracking impersonation of Megascops asio but lacking the more melodious nature of that much maligned bird's utterances.
Then of course (I don't have time today to address the unending stupidities of Pippa Rocks In Her Head, Penny Wrong, Whine Swansong et alia) there's Stupid Stephen who, for whatever reason, is still Minister For Broad Brush Communications and Destroying The Economy - presumably because Krudd desperately needs a fall guy for the wrath about to be visited on him. Now while you might rightly say it is unreasonable to give a mental midget like Stupid Stephen the 'management' of Australian Communications you have to remember that the Labor Party is so bereft of talent it gave the Defence Portfolio (the apparatus that decides to go to war with random countries and which deals with the most corrupt people on the planet after Cambodian war lords or a NSW Labor MP - US and EU arms dealers) to someone who left school at 15 and spent his subsequent years in a union....so no surprises with the SS appointment.
So Stupid Stephen gets to tell Australians why internet filtering is a good idea (guaranteed to keep every 14 year old male internet user at their most mindlessly hysterical) and he also gets to screw Telstra (and every other communications company in Australia) for no reason other than Krudd has to be got off the hook for his totally exposed craziness which resulted in the big broken promises of "No Australian teeny bopper will go without 100 mbps internet by whatever date I make up next". Trouble for El Stupido is the dates keep marching by and there is no sign that ANYONE (including Labor's Finance and Treasury departments) who believes it ever will be possible.....and the really bad news is that the next election is almost upon us and there's Labor going to have to make a call on exactly when this 100 mbps is going to actually deliver its first byte of data....not to mention explaining away why EVERY other promised 'improvement' to the Australian voters stupid enough to vote for this travelling circus called a Labor Government have never happened.
The blissfully quiet Krudd-free period is about to end and that langorous moon faced moron will be back "making no apologies" on a TV screen near you before your sun burn fades to bright crimson but the idiot is now going to have to invent yet more new lies to explain why there is no NBN1 let alone an NBN2 and why it's OK for the crazies to vote him back to "finish the job".
Let me take a guess.....It was all the fault of the GFC?