A change for the better...
Hopes new PM delivers the goods
YESTERDAY was torture.
Not just for the Liberals who had to pick a new leader but for us mere mortals who has to sit through the spectacle of Malcolm Turnbull’s historic final tantrum.
No Prime Minister in history has done everything short of locking himself in his office to stay in power like he did.
You only need two people to put their names to a petition to change Liberal leaders.
But Turnbull demanded 43 and when he got it, he humiliated his hand-picked party whip by making her ring every last one of them.
Make no mistake, this list will be seared into his heart as his goes after every last one of them from beyond the political grave.
Malcolm Turnbull was the perfect fodder for Canberra’s broken culture. Break every rule to become PM then scream ‘bullies’ as you make the next guy beg.
Some media will protect him, because they are part of this game.
They get the leaks, the awards for writing about the leaks.
They agree with his world view and they get to write the history books.
Dissent is rewritten as wreaking. Plunging our country into a circus for a week will we reborn as a brilliant last stand.
But if you watched it in all its ugliness yesterday, remember who made it worse and kinda embarrassing.
Now Scott Morrison is PM and I welcome it.
While not the perfect pick of ‘the base’ he at least understands electoral maths.
You can’t win without them. Yes, you need to build on them. But with no foundation, you can’t build a thing.
As I said on TV, if you want a perfect prime minister, run for office.
Until then make the most of what you have got.
Peter Dutton is a good man and showed in his immediate comments after losing the ballot he will now fall behind and be a soldier for Morrison.
I’m not foolish enough to say yesterday was the last of the dark days of division.
But I am very confident the days ahead are much brighter for the people who have always voted Liberal with a new generation in charge.
I thought supermarkets hated plastic
At a time when Coles is copping it for banning then kinda unbanning plastic bags, am I the only one who finds it funny that people are losing their minds of another bit of plastic supermarkets hand out.
The miniaturise plastic versions of supermarket products have been an enormous success with people clambering to get little Vegemites and mini Tim-Tams.
The craze is so wild people even get together at the shops to swap the ones they already have for the ones they don’t.
But I thought there was a war on waste, a plan to ban the bag?
Like all crazes people will shake their heads in a few months at all these little things in their cupboard and probably chuck them out.
That means a tonne of more landfill, a lost battle in the waste war.
No one really cares if companies use trinkets like these to get people excited.
But don’t then lecture us about how much you hate using plastic bags, unless of course we buy them from you first.