Mal Brough is the best thing to happen to Labor in months.
News broke today that the controversial (read: stupid) Coalition comeback candidate held an official fundraiser at which the menu offered “Julia Gillard Kentucky Fried Quail — Small Breasts, Huge Thighs & A Big Red Box”.
Gillard, whose leadership is in some doubt, was being criticised internally this morning for seeking to make the election campaign about gender issues and s-xism. That criticism has since died. Mal Brough killed it by demonstrating that the PM had a point.
So here’s a few lessons from Menugate. Firstly, drop the stupid s-xist jokes and gibes and nastiness — or be prepared to annoy more than half the voters. There’s quite a few men in the male-dominated Coalition who should learn that lesson, now. Most of them are smarter than Brough, so don’t go public with their views. Well, move on, fellas. Do you really want to remind the voters the Coalition is a haven for old blokes?
Secondly, Brough, slammed for his involvement (and abuse of legal process) in the James Ashby/Peter Slipper affair, is a serious liability to the Coalition. Australian politics may be better off without this Howard-era relict. He should certainly not be parachuted onto the Coalition’s front bench.
Not everything is going Abbott’s way …
Why would we demean Australia with a man who abandoned his pregnant girlfriend whose baby they both believed (incorrectly) was his. But this so-called moral religious man got his girl to relinquish their baby so he wouldn’t have to cope with any responsibilities
It is time the Australian public was reminded of all this
“Colonel Blimp – Howard’s GI Joe Doll” – who, with the party needing a circuit-breaker with that Rudd-slide bearing down on them, charged into Aboriginal territory, cameras blazing, sweeping aside the findings and advice of Wild and Anderson, the authors of the “Little Children are Sacred” report, to perform his own stunts?
Queensland keeps on giving…
Maybe Mal Brough is suffering from some sort of Attention Deficit Disorder? I mean, after being named by a judge as having a very dodgy involvement in the Slipper/Ashby affair, you’d think that the trusty Australian media would’ve paid him a huge amount of attention. But no, the only journalist who interviewed him in the aftermath, was somebody from the Sunshine Coast Daily, who respected his wishes not to be asked about that affair.
Lardy – he’s a conservative, like Murdoch. One of His Limited News Party ponies.