tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post6027689329755331070..comments2023-12-06T00:23:28.790+11:00Comments on Press gallery reform: Andrew Elderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-27929075513964990232009-12-12T17:33:55.968+11:002009-12-12T17:33:55.968+11:00Hunt should do what Howard would have done - 4-8 w...Hunt should do what Howard would have done - 4-8 weeks before election day, call a press conference and say: look, I tried but they just weren't interested. This is what we should do, but Tony and Nick just won't have it so good luck them. I'm off to win my seat and they can come out with their own plan. <br /><br />As for Joyce, the damage is done. He's untouchable and he knows it. It's Abbott who's weakened. Like Heffernan, Joyce might not come out with something like that next week, or even the week after - but he has a sabre to rattle now, which he didn't before. <br /><br />As for Abbott - if Joyce spouted off about something that was populist but economically irresponsible, on what grounds would Abbott pull him into line? If Joyce told Abbott to shove off, what then?Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-70044573656945000052009-12-12T14:21:45.102+11:002009-12-12T14:21:45.102+11:00A refreshing insight, next to the frequent blandne...A refreshing insight, next to the frequent blandness of the establishment commentariat :)<br /><br />Particularly good call on the inevitable crippling of moderate Greg Hunt, I reckon. The Minchin-Abbott cabal will use him and then, if unable to turn him to the Dark Side, will discard him like a used tissue.<br /><br />Perhaps Joyce was put into Cabinet so that he can be muzzled more easily? Abbott has now invoked "team solidarity" (ie. "shut up and toe the line or else, you barmy cornfed git") after Joyce ran his mouth off about economic armageddon..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-86168374445521521242009-12-11T17:05:55.576+11:002009-12-11T17:05:55.576+11:00Not different enough, dd. Think of a worst-case sc...Not different enough, dd. Think of a worst-case scenario and look at who'd be left after such a scenario played out. The Victorian state preselections show what timidity the Liberals have toward chucking out sitting members. It could be worse, and it will be.Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-62450576740263020742009-12-11T15:29:03.458+11:002009-12-11T15:29:03.458+11:00A good post, full of well-deserved savagery (my gr...A good post, full of well-deserved savagery (my gratitude to you, BTW, on reading that hopeless shill Sheridan so I don't have to).<br /><br />I reckon one or two of the moderates, starting with Turnbull himself, aren't at all unhappy at being put to the back of the train given that this train is about to become a massive wreck. Look for a very different shadow ministry after the election.derrida deridernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-65293947283982677132009-12-10T08:42:03.676+11:002009-12-10T08:42:03.676+11:00Poor analogy, considering who The Enemy was in tha...Poor analogy, considering who The Enemy was in that series - but the spirit of Corporal Jones lives on.Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-91266201218731886282009-12-10T00:08:08.878+11:002009-12-10T00:08:08.878+11:00It's going to be joy watching Dad's Army ...It's going to be joy watching Dad's Army fall into the mud one by one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com