once more...

[deird1]

Aaaand here goes the government being stupid again. Honestly, our politicians change their leadership more often than they change their underwear.

My thoughts over the last few days:

Government says "We keep chasing Labor's [more left-wing] base, and losing people from our own [right-wing] base to One Nation!". Mez thinks "Well... I was pretty solidly in your base, and you lost me to the left wing. You're pretty much losing people from all sides."

Turnbull says "We need to stop focusing on politics! If we don't get back to thinking about important issues, Bill Shorten will win the next election!" Mez thinks "Isn't worrying that 'Shorten will win' pretty much the definition of focusing on politics?"

Dutton lobbies to be PM. Mez screams, and starts stocking up on canned goods.

Comments

[tielan]

It's just...nuts. Watching the leadership spills, the predictions, the posturing, it's painful and frustrating, and all the more because any form or sense of governance is quite out the window...

[deird1]

Not to mention that today they went "Eh. This is interfering with our ability to do our jobs. Let's just... stop doing them. That's not a problem, right?"

[shadowkat]

Weirdly reassuring in a completely misery loves company sort of way to learn that your government/political situation is just as insane and horrible as ours.

[deird1]

Totally. :)

I honestly have no idea who our Prime Minister will be by the end of today - but I dislike every available option...

[megpie71]

As someone who is unemployed (and therefore not a Real Human Being to various Liberal politicians, particularly the ones on their far right) I'm essentially pointing and laughing, because this mob have been a shambles from the moment they were elected with Abbott at the helm back in 2013, and they haven't improved a jot over the last five years. I wouldn't trust 'em to be able to run a chook raffle in a country pub, even with the local head of the CWA helping out.

Basically: if Turnbull gets back in (unlikely) we'll see more of the same for at least another two or three months, until someone finally gets fed up and goes to the Governor-General and says "look, call an election, or we'll never get anything done around here". If Dutton gets in we get Abbott V2.0, only harder and with a lot more authoritarian dictatorship in the mix (because Dutton was a Queensland cop under Joh, and that means he's going to have no hesitation about calling out the AFP, ASIO and the Army to destroy his perceived enemies. You vote ALP or Greens? Your calls will be monitored). If Morrison gets in, we get more of Turnbull with extra Charismatic Christianity sprinkles on top; and if Julie Bishop manages to convince everyone to vote for her as the compromise candidate, we'll know the Liberal party is self-destructing, because they've put a woman in charge to sort things out.

Meanwhile, the ALP are serving schadenfreude milkshakes, and getting a bit of a laugh in about the whole mess as they look forward to winning the next election by a reasonably comfortable margin (always presuming there *is* another election... never disregard the potential for chaos caused by an authoritarian conservative who thinks they're under threat).

[deird1]

It really has been chaotic. (And, yes, providing plenty of schadenfreude fodder.)

I'm sort of hoping that at least most Aussies are aware that Morrison is a complete tosser, so this might work against him at the next election. ...maybe? ...hopefully?

[shadowkat]

Hee. That's our current governor race.

I wish we could get rid of our President and VP so easily. But alas, I'm thinking we'll have to impeach them first, which is going to be messy.

[megpie71]

Unfortunately being useless is apparently an electoral advantage for members of the Liberal party.

But I did have a bit of a laugh yesterday, when I realised that instead of getting the current Minister for Locking Children Up In Camps as PM, we are instead getting the former Minister For Locking Children Up In Camps as PM. Also enjoyed the bit where Dutton said he was 'getting behind' Scott Morrison (well of *course* he is - you can't really stab someone in the back if you're not fully behind them).