Friday 29th of March 2024

next door to chez turdy...

next door to chez turdy...

shabby serve...

Bill Shorten’s response to Christine Milne’s resignation was pretty shabby, but it was also revelatory. After all this time, the ALP – and particularly its right wing – is still unable to process the reality of Australia’s political fragmentation.

Shorten’s send-off for Milne was, to borrow a phrase, “weird and graceless”. After a couple of lines of perfunctory, clearly insincere congratulations to Richard Di Natale, he vented the issues he shares with large sections of the ALP’s leadership:

Labor’s priority is to protect living standards, jobs and a secure economic future. The Greens have other priorities. I’m proud to lead the only political party that gives members a say in choosing their leader.

Why draw attention to an election where members voted overwhelmingly for his opponent, and where his own supporters’ conduct has been under scrutiny? Because none of this comes from a rational place.

Why choose this moment to indulge in bromides about jobs and the economy? Because of a compulsion to repeat the only real rhetorical response that Labor have ever really managed to generate to the smaller party. The fact that it has no discernible effect does not seem to have led anyone to think that it should be abandoned.

The stimulus in this case was a successful, drama-free leadership transition from Milne to Di Natale. Remember that a large part of the reason that Labor is now in opposition is Shorten’s own role in the undermining Rudd, and then, eventually, Gillard. The contrasting spectacle of a party negotiating this process with goodwill and a modicum of maturity may have been too much to bear.

It’s one of a long series of desperate helicopter punches that the ALP have thrown at every hint of Green success.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/08/after-shortens-shabby-milne-send-off-can-labors-greens-resentment-end

greens are turning turdy blue...

 

The Federal Opposition says the Greens have been "dudded" in the pension deal they have struck with the Government.

Social Services Minister Scott Morrison and the Greens leader Richard Di Natale have agreed to a tighter assets test for the age pension.

It will save nearly $2.5 billion dollars over four years, making it the biggest single measure in the 2015 budget.

Senator Di Natale said in securing the agreement, he had convinced the Government to put superannuation back on the agenda.

But Labor said he had been naive as the Government had made it clear it would stand by its pledge to leave super unchanged.

The deal means around 170,000 pensioners with modest assets will get $30 a fortnight more, but at the top end, there will be losers.

The part pension would cut out for a couple with assets of $823,000 on top of their family home; it is currently $1.1 million.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-17/labor-says-greens-dudded-by-govern...

I personally would not give anything to the glorious Turdy government. NOTHING. NO WIN of sorts... But then I'm not in charge of anything... Contrarily to Sooperman, Superturd feeds on Turdonite...

 

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Greens leader Richard Di Natale has conceded his deal with the Government to cut pensions is unlikely to reap the party any of its sought-after changes to superannuation.

Cuts to superannuation tax concessions are in the sights of both the Greens and Labor as a potential multi-billion dollar boost to the budget.

But the Coalition has promised no adverse changes to superannuation in this term of Government and Social Services Minister Scott Morrison has stuck by that.

Late yesterday, the Government announced it hadstruck a deal to pass $2.4 billion in cuts to pensions through the Senate, in return for considering superannuation under the tax white paper process.

Senator Di Natale said the arrangement put superannuation back on the agenda, but that was not how the Social Services Minister saw it.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-17/greens-di-natale-concedes-super-changes-doubt-pension-deal/6552570

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The Greens got conned again... They're still "green around the gills", but they would be feeling full of their own importance and that's what matters... No?... Idiots...

 

meanwhile home alone chez the wife, with annabel...

home alone