This video is offered as a response to Brendan Nelson’s budget reply speech. Update: Nelson transcript here.
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Kim. Brendan has a place in history. But there’s no need to rub his nose in it. Cruel! But I love it.
It’s soooooooooo hard to resist, wpd!
I almost fell off the couch laughing when Brendan, after equivocating over whether alcopops were a sacred human right and anyway, binge drinking is going down, suddenly switched to calling a summit and claiming that “parents and health economists” or something knew that “the kids will switch to another drink…….. or DRUG!” - at which point he was yelling and his eyes looked like they were about to pop out.
It’s unlikely the Libs can win with anyone any time soon, so I hope 9 of 100 (Nelson’s Borg name according to Lefty E) hangs around for the comedy value.
Call a Docter, please somebody call a Doctor, this man needs help
no, wait…
Cruel, so cruel. I’m starting to think Nelson is a closet masochist. Not unusual amongst the Tories, of course. Why on earth would anyone stick around for this much pain?
Update: Nelson transcript here.
No seriously, I still can’t believe their making a stand on: alcopops.
Surely they can see the pure idiocy of this? It’s a staggering lurch with the ball towards their own goalbox. Surely someone at Lib HQ is yelling “OTHER WAY, DUFUS!”
Even ‘teh insiders’ like Grattan are shaking their heads in disbelief.
Surely they’ll move on 9 of 100 after this.
That was great. I never tire of seeing Abbott saying “shit happens” then moving back to that smug, shit-eating grin of his.
They’re also against cutting taxes for people earning under 100k who don’t choose private health insurance, Lefty E!
So, which of these alcopops are we recommending? I need to stock up while Nelson controls the upper house.
I’m amazed that they have tried out a version of the “summer gas tax holiday” that Hillary Clinton tried in the US. This policy was universally derided by economists (see John Quiggan blog), but it had a powerful feel good element as summer holidays approached and long drives loomed. Its unlikely to attract much excitement as winter approaches over Oz.
I stayed up to watch Lateline Business (then got too bored with it) to see if they’d have any economists dissecting Nelson’s reply. Obviously not worth the candle as whatever it’s about, it’s not about economics.
Big news ! Ive completely sold out, and am now working as a media consultant for 9 of 100. I’ve done him a great t-shirt and slogan, and am keeping it highly real in grafitti yoof lingo, to connect with his new Gen Z base.
“Cheap piss 4 kidz”
lol
Oh, dear Tony Wright in the Age today, called it the most risible budget reply in living history. Compared the Libs to desperate clowns whose act is dying in front of their eyes. And Wright’s never been much of a leftie.
Well, briefly, very briefly, I was impressed. But then it dawned on me and I started yelling at the TV “You’re f…king deluded, Brendon. You’re in bloody Opposition.” Though I did like the line about you can’t lower petrol prices by watching them. It was funny. And that’s the problem, isn’t it. Except when he started to get tired at the end it was sheer comedy.
Graham Young on Brendan’s speech:
http://ambit-gambit.nationalforum.com.au/archives/003066.html
There are already 29,000 members on an ‘Aussies Against the Alcohol Tax Increase’ group on Facebook. Photos posted to the group are mostly of enormous numbers of empty cans and bottles, with messages of congratulation posted beneath. Nelson drawing a line in the sand over pre-mixed drinks may play quite well in some quarters.
And not in others. As Graham Young said, the logical implication of Joe Hockey’s position is that either all excise should fall to the level of wine, or that wine excise should rise. And I’m sure no one ever binge drinks on chardonnay or a fine cab sav!
Nelson’s “budget howlers”:
http://petermartin.blogspot.com/2008/05/nelsons-budget-howlers.html
Ben Eltham on why Nelson’s a goner:
http://www.newmatilda.com/2008/05/16/arise-sir-malcolm
I think the Coalition is taking a stand on Alcopops and Luxury Car tax hikes for a very good reason - their constituency are mainly drunks in 4WD’s
ahhhhhhhhhhhhh rofl.