Thomson's sad and sorry tale in Parliament today is credible. Skullduggery exists, and his final comments that Tony Abbott was unfit to be either PM or MP are held by many. It's more than obvious that Thomson thinks the Mad Abbott (who is known to go to great lengths to claim a scalp.. or has everyone forgotten Pauline Hanson's prison stretch?) but I can't help wondering if rounding up such a self-vindication with a political kick to the knee might have cost him the believability of his soliloqy.
Let's skip the speech.. no doubt by now there's a cyberstorm of commentary bouncing around. What I'm wondering might be of particular interest is the fact that Labor's first two antecedant motions against the Libs (that Pyne and Bishop not be heard.. and don't we all occassionally wish for that?) were beaten by five votes at Division. Given that what's truly at stake here is the balance of power in Federal Parliament, Albanese's muscle-flex failed, and Labor should perhaps take warning that they're in deeper trouble than they thought.
Meanwhile, as the moon eclipses the sun, everyone's waiting to see if Australia's Friday financial fiasco richochets through the FTSE and into Wall St. At least we have something with which to keep ourselves occupied while we wait.
Some things just have to be done ;)
A mate thunk the words, I did the layout, and it seems to be going more than sligthly viral on Bookface:
Fair points
You may be surprised by the one I'll have up next week Michael, It may be an interesting conclusion to something I've been up to.
Meanwhile, though, any topics up your sleeve to discuss?
Allo, anyone out there?
Yes. It went quiet
Yes. It went quiet and I thought the admins had shut it down. But sorry, Richard. Nothing interesting to say about your recent threadstarts.