‘Turnbull’s lurch to the Left.
He has:
– announced $1 billion for global warming projects overseas.
– misrepresented and mocked suggestions by Tony Abbott – since echoed by Barack Obama – to send special forces soldiers to fight the Islamic State.
– defended the Grand Mufti, who blamed terrorism on the West’s alleged oppression of Muslims.
– scrapped Bjorn Lomborg’s proposed consensus centre, opposed by warming extremists.
– dumped conservative Immigration Minister Peter Dutton from the National Security Committee.
– urged Commonwealth leaders to do more to fight global warming.
– dropped support for amendments to the Racial Discrimination Act that would allow more free speech.
– softened the Government’s opposition to the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, which invests public money to make no difference to global warming.
– trimmed the cuts to middle-class welfare.
– increased the pay offer to public servants from 1.5 per cent to 2 per cent.
– invited Human Rights Commissioner Gillian Triggs to tea to mend bridges with an activist who has accused the government of crimes against humanity
– invited discussions on increasing taxes on superannuation.
– suggested a rise in the GST, inevitably leading to a tax grab after the premiers are paid off.
– announced a bid for a seat on the discredited United Nations Human Rights Council.
– had the partisan leadership of ABC chairman Mark Scott praised by his new Communications Minister.
– initially described the Islamist murder of Curtis Cheng as “politically motivated”, not religiously.
– signalled that the 12,000 refugees to be taken from Iraq and Syria may not be mostly Christians, after all, with two of the first four families chosen actually Muslim.
– banned the visit of an anti-abortion activist.
– appointed a noted spend-our-way-out-of this Keynesian, Martin Parkinson, as the new head of his department.
– had his ministers, with his permission or without, brief journalists to write damaging articles about Tony Abbott.
– allowed the deficit to worsen by up to $5 billion this financial year, claims Deloitte Access Economics.
– shunned conservative journalists.
– restored funding to the Australia Council, which former Arts Minister George Brandis had wanted diverted to excellence rather than mediocrity.
– stalled a decision on the new submarine fleet.
Of course, it’s not a “lurch to the left” at all.
The slimy duplicitous bastard has always been a leftist, it’s just that people like Bolt refused to face the fact.
I don’t even bother stating facts like those above to the young blokes at work. I just point out that “schoolgirls (18yrs old here, I believe) are compelled to vote and your last two elected Presidents have been stabbed in the back”.
Sometimes add the French note “Elect people to represent you, then pay people to oppose them”.
In short: We’re not ‘voting’ our way out of this.
Damn right we’re not. The ballot box is now absurdist theatre.
You have to wonder how rigged the whole political process in the west is. If someone was pulling strings this type of shift (without an election) would be just the ticket to get rid of the people’s choice if that choice wasn’t towing the line. Voting seems increasingly pointless.
“Voting seems increasingly pointless.”
Damn right it does. It now merely legitimizes the theft of liberty.
(a) he hasn’t lurched. He’s as much a Fabian socialist as Gillard, Key or Helen Clark.
(b) in essence, he is the face of a UN putsch against the legitimate government of Australia, and against the Australian people.
“.. he is the face of a UN putsch against the legitimate government of Australia, and against the Australian people.”
YES!
Which is why the leftist media is 100% supportive of him.
Of course. They are complicit in the treason.
Paradoxically, and assuming there is still legitimacy in the ballot box, their actions have led to a number of Liberals crossing to join the Nationals (a very good thing), and the massive increase in popularity of the Australian Liberty Alliance.
They may have misunderestimated the Australian citizenry.
I really hope so. All I want at the next election is to see this government thrown out.
I don’t care if they replace him with Bindi Irwin and the Parramatta Prostitute’s Collective, or even Bill Shorten. Just dump the bastards.
Yup. The Libs need to be raped so badly in the next election that they rue the day they ever screwed Abbott and the rest of us over.
These pricks are drawn to speech suppression like dogs to their vomit.
They surely are. Evil, power-addicted unprincipled devious slimy bastards.