Who is our Prime Minister tonight?

JeffH · June 26, 2013, 07:14:34 PM

I won't cash my chit in on this one!
I have disconnected from all media sources that might expose me to the "drama" and will be going to bed soon. Tomorrow is soon enough to find out what is happening.
Since Ted Mack and Peter Andren (in NSW but, there must have been some in other states) have we had any politicians who have had a genuine concern for the people and the democratic process? Or, are they all ego driven?

What a shame it all is. And, post the September election, regardless of the result, do I expect to see any change?
Answer -I hope yes, but expect no.

Jeff

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markn · June 26, 2013, 07:36:08 PM

Hopefully one of these:

Unicorn · June 26, 2013, 07:42:13 PM

Vote 1 ..... Fozzie Bear!!!!

JeffH · June 26, 2013, 07:51:47 PM

Gee, I was hoping you would offer some new, fresh faces for our government. They just look like the existing with some new clothes and a little make up.

markn · June 26, 2013, 07:53:09 PM

Quote from: 'JeffH' pid='19475' dateline='1372242107'Gee, I was hoping you would offer some new, fresh faces for our government. They just look like the existing with some new clothes and a little make up.

Oh I don't know. The one in the middle of the bottom row looks just like the now-ex PM.

purplepennyhunter · June 26, 2013, 08:00:15 PM

Mark won't stop doing the Kev laugh. I wish I could punch him, oh wait I can. Could you have picked a bigger picture mate?

I second Fozzie.

markn · June 26, 2013, 08:05:44 PM

purplepennyhunter · June 26, 2013, 08:08:18 PM

Oh wait, if I second someone can I suggest another?

markn · June 26, 2013, 08:09:43 PM

Quote from: 'purplepennyhunter' pid='19481' dateline='1372243098'Oh wait, if I second someone can I suggest another?

He's already the president of the USA. He can't be PM too. That's just silly. A puppet bear in a hat for PM? That's not silly, it's just common sense!

Fulvio · June 26, 2013, 08:37:18 PM

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He gets MY vote, definitely.

robbiegal · June 26, 2013, 10:24:20 PM

looks like ruddie if the GG let's him take the top job again
I guess we'll have to wait for HM to yea or ney the deal (? do we)
who won the footy?

I had trouble figuring out the news tonight
state of origin or the state of disgrace by our pollies

Goldseeker · June 26, 2013, 11:54:05 PM

Who cares who is the Prime Minister tonight.

Come September 14, I think it is, we will have another Prime Minister............and the Labour Party will be gone, wiped out in one of the most lop sided defeats in Australia's Political history.

As Gough Whitlam once said "Nothing can save the................."

accumulator · June 27, 2013, 12:10:49 AM

QLD won the footy Robbie 26 - 6

Fulvio · June 27, 2013, 01:59:56 AM

Quote from: 'Goldseeker' pid='19513' dateline='1372256645'...wiped out in one of the most lop sided defeats in Australia's Political history.

That was kinda the whole point of the excercise, and the sole reason Kev changed his mind.

Any landslide is a terrible thing. Regardless of who the winners are, the whole country become losers. Governance needs checks and balances, and in our parliamentary system that comes from a strong opposition. Lack of opposition leads to all sorts of bad decisions, and we've seen plenty of examples in the past, at all levels of government.

Julia would have handed Abbott carte blanche to do whatever he damn well pleased, and nobody could have stopped him. And we all know he has some really wierd, possibly irrational ideas.

Now that Kev's back, he should be able to rein him in to a one or two seat majority, which will keep the bastards honest, we hope. There are things afoot that really need to go through unhindered, and not be lobotomised in the way that the libs said they'd cripple the NBN, to cite one example. The school and disability reforms would never ever have been put in place by a liberal government, and we're better off for having them. Do we really want to endure years of bad decisions that need to be fixed a decade or two down the track?

Oh, and there is also a remote possibility that Kev might just pull a rabbit out of the hat. If he did, I reckon he'd make a much much better PM the second time around. Maybe not a great one, but certainly better than the alternative. And if THAT happened, it would give the opposition time to find a decent leader who might actually do great things.

Cos Tony never will.

ausjack · June 27, 2013, 02:58:56 AM

well howard screwed me and many thousands of other injured workers and abbot will do worse..be careful what you wish for, better the devil you know :winkextra: