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David
I dare you to try
Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda
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Post subject: What is the best way to get rid of Bill Shorten? | |
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With Abbott back to 50-50 in some of the polls, this is a question that every patriotic Australian should be considering right now: how can we get the ALP to do a Bill Hayden and send the Shorten-bot to a diplomatic posting in Syr... I mean, Trinidad and Tobago? Is it even possible? Please post suggestions (and suggestions of a replacement, such as Tanya P) here.
Please, no violent fantasies (as tempting as they may be).
I'll kick things off: Gillard gave Rudd a portfolio he was passionate about once he got axed (foreign affairs). Could they offer Shorten the Ministry for Dad Jokes?
Second idea: get him to do an unscripted speech without access to the day's talking points and see if he explodes. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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Dave The Man
Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Location: Someville, Victoria, Australia
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Why Bother Voting?
You get Screwed anyway _________________ I am Da Man |
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Pies4shaw
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Joined: 08 Oct 2007
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pietillidie
Joined: 07 Jan 2005
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^LOL.
No one wants the job. You either have to become a more deranged fruitcake than Abbott, or an even dumber and less charismatic cardboard cutout than Shorten; two tasks verging on the impossible. _________________ In the end the rain comes down, washes clean the streets of a blue sky town.
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005 Location: In flagrante delicto
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How to get rid of Bill Shorten? You aint gonna like the answers to this.
Option 1. Wait, let nature take it's course and when Abbott gets re-elected hopefully he'll resign in disgrace.
Option 2. Don't worry at all about popular perception that Labor will knife a leader as soon as they become unpopular and that they actually stand for nothing except trying to get in power and vote him out as leader.
2 slight other problems with option 2 are the process put in place by Krudd that the party members have to have a vote on the party leadership and which of the large group of the obvious outstanding candidates would get the nod as replacement.
Option 3. Set up a spurious photo op with Clive Palmer over agreeing to fight against the imposition of the GST on chicken parmigianas and have one of Clive's concrete dinosaurs "accidentally" tip over onto little Bill.
Option 4. Convince him that as a man of action he should personally test out parliament House anti terrorist measures by dressing in traditional Islamic garb including fake beard, putting on an ammunition bandolier filled with cocktail savs and charging at security wielding a plastic scimitar while yelling "Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Allah Akbar". Get the team from the Chaser to be on hand filming it and you could kill several birds with one drone.
Option 5. Put him in a room with no internet access and ask him to hand write a critical analysis of one of Ptiddly's more lengthy tomes. Committing seppuku with a pencil may be difficult but .................... _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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Wokko
Come and take it.
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
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Labor are trapping in a damned if you do and damned if you don't dilemma. Abbott can call an election whenever, and Labor party turmoil would play right into the narrative that they're not yet ready to govern after their Rudd/Gillard/Rudd fiasco. Of course, if they leave him in they bleed poll numbers and get rolled once Abbott calls an election at the most opportune time.
Labors best bet is to cop this one on the chin, let Shorten lead them to a narrow election defeat then install their 'saviour' whoever the hell that might be. |
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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
Joined: 17 Mar 2003
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So? Let's wait and see what they do. |
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David
I dare you to try
Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda
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Honestly, I still think the Shorten-bot can beat Abbott, because Tony is Tony; even if the public have a short memory regarding pretty much everything the government did in their first twelve months, he's bound to do something idiotic sooner or later. 2016 could well be a drover's dog election, and, well, Bill is nothing if not the drover's dog.
But if Abbott does win, I'm leaving the country. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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Dave The Man
Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Location: Someville, Victoria, Australia
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David wrote: | Honestly, I still think the Shorten-bot can beat Abbott, because Tony is Tony; even if the public have a short memory regarding pretty much everything the government did in their first twelve months, he's bound to do something idiotic sooner or later. 2016 could well be a drover's dog election, and, well, Bill is nothing if not the drover's dog.
But if Abbott does win, I'm leaving the country. |
I feel the same way abbott.
IF He Stays in then there a lot of Idiots in the Country _________________ I am Da Man |
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Wokko
Come and take it.
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
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David wrote: |
But if Abbott does win, I'm leaving the country. |
Lefty tears are the only thing that make an Abbott win worthwhile |
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Tannin
Can't remember
Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Location: Huon Valley Tasmania
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Abbott is unelectable. Back it in. _________________ �Let's eat Grandma.� Commas save lives! |
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Morrigu
Joined: 11 Aug 2001
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Nope Tannin you would think so but no - " you ain't coming back here unless you go directly to jail" ISiS " traitors" will see him back in - I am astounded at how many sane people will vote for him on this alone as they are scared Shorten and Co will be " soft" and let them back in
What a strange world the place has become _________________ “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” |
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David
I dare you to try
Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda
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Wokko wrote: | David wrote: |
But if Abbott does win, I'm leaving the country. |
Lefty tears are the only thing that make an Abbott win worthwhile |
I won't cry about it, I'll just quietly pack my bags. Seriously. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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pietillidie
Joined: 07 Jan 2005
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^Yes, very depressing if you stay confined locally. Of course, any sane developing nation worth its salt is pushing to become what we ought to be, so focusing elsewhere can help. Just make sure that elsewhere isn't the UK!
Now would be a good time to revive the Democrats in a completely new incarnation, except that no one on either the left or the right understands practical economics, and thus cannot steamroll the present racist ticket with comprehensive, doable, forward-looking policy that promises betterment. An holistic policy dealing with the economy, terrorism, Asian stability and growth, productivity, careers, and so on, is staring everyone in the face with the turn against fossil fuels and unstoppable push towards automation and AI, but you actually have to know something about those as a whole before turning them into policy platforms!
The Greens, for all their good individual ideas and individuals, are apparently too conservative in their own way to re-brand themselves as an economically-progressive party first and foremost. Or, is it that they don't know anything about the economy and business, having shunned it for too long now? Both, methinks.
Certainly, Australia is scraping the bottom of the barrel at the minute in terms of both platforms and personnel. _________________ In the end the rain comes down, washes clean the streets of a blue sky town.
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pietillidie
Joined: 07 Jan 2005
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Wokko wrote: | David wrote: |
But if Abbott does win, I'm leaving the country. |
Lefty tears are the only thing that make an Abbott win worthwhile |
True, it would be a huge win for the paranoid, fundamentalist, house-bound conservative blogosphere over the marauding forces of niqab-adorned brown-skinned darkness taking over their computer screens!
Boo!
_________________ In the end the rain comes down, washes clean the streets of a blue sky town.
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