What, corporate tax cuts leading to awesome wage and job growth not cutting it with you? ScoMo did so much screaming about that today. All for naught.
How has he not been removed from the cabinet?
Either Turnbullâs lying about not being told, or Joyce breached regulations in the most obvious way.
What he did is the reason for the rule.
Playing the victim card pretty shamelessly in a couple of threads now. What do you expect when you never address any responses to any of your bait posts with any research? Boy who cried snowflakes.
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They werenât in a relationship at the time and Turnbull didnât know anything. Apparently.
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Lying is the new breathing
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If Joyce can move a perfectly good, functioning and specialist agency to his own electorate at significant cost to the taxpayer and get away with it, then this wonât break him.
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heâs apologised.
iâm sure the media will back off now, this will all blow over.
right? RIGHT?
What a slime-bag.
You know, itâs taken till this that Iâve had to reconsider Joyceâs suitability to entrusting a public office to him.
Not to mention being found ineligible to sit but still turning up to vote on things. After grandstanding about the prospect of others doing exactly that, no less!
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Ever since the first time I met him, absolutely sure he is batshite crazy. Felt exactly the same about Mark Latham, maybe they are brothers.
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Itâs a helluva risky business writing a column about Barnaby Joyce at the moment. Not because heâs doomed and you might find him rolled out of office like a dangerously bulging tin of deeply dodgy potted meat before you can get the piece to your editor. Heâs doomed, but itâs a slow motion train wreck. Heâll probably last until the weekend.
No, itâs risky because just when you think youâve got this thing nailed down, it gets worse.
John Birmingham @ Canberra Times
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/the-hypocrisy-of-barnaby-joyce-is-stunning-20180212-p4z03k.html
Barnaby Joyce is doomed. Now, itâs just a matter of when.
Barnaby Joyce is doomed. Now, itâs just a matter of when. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
It started out as gossip of a purely personal nature. Joyce, now and forever to be known as The Beetrooter thanks to some cruel and magnificent â â â â â â â on Twitter, was rumoured to be cheating on his wife. Given his willingness to not just cast aspersions on other peopleâs private lives, but to punitively legislate against them, that was enough for a lot of punters to call him out on social media. But it wasnât enough for the Press Gallery in the real media, and theyâve been throwing themselves an awesome pity party ever since.
For all of the high-minded journalistic waffle about private lives being private (unless, you know, somebody like Joyce decides to pass laws about them) and the need to verify rumours before writing news, it turned out there was plenty of crunchy and nutritious news value to be had in the Beetrooterâs shenanigans.
This bloke wasnât merely sipping from the hypocrite drip because he put himself about as a staunch defender of family values while betraying and humiliating his family. He was an even bigger hypocrite, because having banged the drum about welfare cheats and bludgers, heâd lined up a series of cushy and very well paid jobs for his girlfriend. Plus they were living rent-free in a townhouse provided by a millionaire businessman, and renovated by the federal government to meet upgraded security standards.
Youâd think this would be enough to finish the bloke off, especially since while he was enjoying his rent free love shack he was lecturing the rest of the country about why they should be ashamed of themselves for wanting to live in Sydney when he was happy to live in Armidale, because it was cheaper.
Much, much cheaper as it turns out. Who would have thought the solution to the housing affordability crisis was for millionaire property owners to let us live at their place for free. (Answer: socialists, communists, deluded idiots of that sort, I suppose).
But even that egregious and head spinning instance of grotesque hypocrisy is not the rancid cherry on top of the â â â â sundae of this story.
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No, that would be Malcolm Turnbull insisting yesterday that there was nothing wrong with giving the Beetrooterâs pregnant lover a high paying job, and then moving her to another high paying job when that didnât work out, and then finding a third, sweet, cushy gig when the second one fell through because, get this⌠she wasnât actually his partner.
She was pregnant, and they were living together. But she wasnât his partner becauseâŚ
Shrugs.
Crickets.
Tumbleweeds.
Allow me to assist you, Prime Minister. She wasnât his partner because shuffling her from one ministerial staff job to another might be a breach of the rules.
She wasnât his partner because an ever-growing number of government ministers would be implicated in that possible breach.
She wasnât his partner because that would make it very difficult, not just for the Beetrooter to hold onto his job, but for you too, Prime Minister.
And while all this is going on?
John Birmingham from the Canberra Times
Thousands and thousands of innocent, law-abiding punters are being swept up by the very same governmentâs robo-debt programs and threatened with criminal sanction if they donât pay back money they never owed in the first place.
Itâs not often you get to see the raw, naked ugliness of the power imbalance between the masters and their serfs, but itâs out there for everyone to see this week.
I just hesitate to file this column because I wonder whatâs coming next
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Sounds like Fairfax are wanting another law-suit to be filed against them. They probably figure they will be broke soon, so letâs go for it.
That âcolumnâ is nothing but a hate-filled diatribe - so I can see itâs appeal to the miserable Left.
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Iâm impressed by the vitriol.
But the points raised are valid if true.
Are you saying theyâre not true?
I donât care who the Deputy Prime Minister â â â â â , but I do object to paying for it.
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Yes, there should be far more people in politics with the moral attributes of Barnaby. Gives the rest of us something to aspire to.
Its how you say it.
- James Hird presided over a sports nutrition program which unknown to him was not governed as well as it could have been.
- James Hird is a drug cheat who filled innocent players with cancer laden drugs from Mexico.
Birmingham obviously getting lessons on how to spew hatred from SHWNBN.
Okay, how should it be said?
Perhaps a law suit coming against Andrew Bolt also. Same words put in different manner.
taps mic
Is this thing on?
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