White, bitter, and conservative.

When it comes to playing race politics, Australians (since the demise of John Howard) play race politics in a much more subtle fashion than their European counterparts.

While Europeans have organised far right groups that march around in gangs, Australia's redneck fringe is fractured, aging, bitter, and marginalised.

A common argument against multiculturalism is that "teh left" are PC and have caved in to immigrants in exchange for votes.

When the Liverpool council approved an Islamic School at Roxton Park, this" immigrant block of votes" theory came out again.

Liverpool's Islamic society now accounts for 10% of the population. What is it that makes this area so popular to these people? No wonder the council approved this application, number count in elections.

This theory can (and is) applied to virtually any political situation which involves minority groups.

Think of all the votes in accepting refugees, letting in Hilaly, being a Vietnamese candidate in Cabramatta, and remember howMaxine McKew targeted Asians.

Personally I love this theory. It is merely an extension of Howard's divide and conquer attitude.

In 1996 Howard won "for all of us". At this stage he'd already pissed off the Asians, but that wasn't a fatal political mistake.

His narrative needed to be constantly re-enforced so Howard started cutting off the Aboriginals, then it was the Muslims, gays, elites, doctors wives, environmentalist, etc etc etc.

Eventually in 2007 the "all of us" majority had become a minority and Howard had cut off more votes than he could afford.

Those who mouth off about politicians making decisions to gain the ethnic vote are doing us all a favour. They a repeating and re-enforcing the conservative mistakes from the past, and doing it from a weakened position. In other words, they are digging in a hole to get themselves out of trouble.

Australia's demographic has fundamentally shifted. Why would anyone want to be associated with the angry bitter, white conservative? Especially when their bitterness is tinged by racism.

Labor has nothing to fear from the redneck vote anymore. This mob already vote conservative, and they don't have the influence, growth in numbers, or power to change governments at this point in time.

We have come to a point in time where refugee boats are now an advantage to the ALP. Labor just has to hold their nerve, ignore Alan Jones and his flock, and appeal to decency.

The Herald KKK

With Facebook pulling the racist "Fuck off we're full" group of the internet, it's a pity someone doesn't do the same with the Hun.

I've repeated posted about their laxed moderating in their feedback forums, but this post sets a new low point

Any illegal boat in our waters should be mandatory target practice for our navy and air force. No questions asked. And the only "Asylum Policy" Australia should have is shoot on sight. Whites made this country what it was, the rest have made it what it is.

Posted by: Mister Master of Australia 9:21am today

Aahh the Hun. Where messages from hard core racists who incite violence are welcome on the paper's web page.

Guess who doesn't have their paperwork up to date?

Last July, a merry band of conservatives from Geelong had a shindig to raise money for the tories.

This merry band of very busy fundraises is called the Geelong 500 Club.

The First question is who are they? It's kind of a regional version of the 500 Club formed by arse-wipe rape apologist crook John Elliot. But of course most of their members remain quietly anonymous.

A bit of digging revealed that Kate Bullen from Prosperity Legal was the Geelong 500 Club's financial officer.

Kate signs the AEC disclosure statements using the Prosperity Legal Address so we can assume they play a major role in the Geelong 500 Club's activities.

Kate is a known Liberal mover and shaker, but I'm tipping she isn't the sole donor to the Geelong 500 Club. They of course remain blissfully anonymous due to the laxed disclosure laws in this country.

The next question is, how much money do these guys raise?

Here is a breakdown of recent figures disclosed to the AEC.
2002/3 75K
2003/4 46K
2005/6 29K
2006/7 43K

Please note, this is only the amounts the Geelong 500 Club admit too. In the shonky world of campaign fundraising these figures should be considered as a absolute base.

It's a substantial amount and you would expect that some of the money would have gone to Stuart McArthur's unsuccessful defence of Corangamite in the 2007 election. But of course you couldn't confirm anything because Stewie lodged a nil return (ie no disclosed donors) and the Geelong 500 Club failed to lodge their returns on time.

Perhaps one of our more enterprising professional journos would like to have a look at this story. I'm too busy at work at the moment.

Who's next?

I had wanted to post a poll about who would lead the Liberals to an inevitable defeat in 2010, but that vile swine Scott from Grods has got in first. Instead, I will just have to outline the reasons why the Libs are a complete rabble at the moment.

There is one overriding reason for the Libs current position, disunity.

The coalitions main problem is a total lack of discipline on the Back Bench. Basically the coalition back bench is filled with veteran slack-jawed climate change denialists so far out of touch with every Australian (other than rich pasturalists and miners) it's not funny.

This ugly mob have numerous media sluts in their ranks, and they are already actively undermining Turnbull. Make no mistake, the fact Turnbull believes in AGW, gay marriage, and is a rich banker means he is the enemy for the likes of Tuckey, Mirrabella, Boswell et al.

There are also so many issues before parliament at the moment that highlight this massive division between small "l" Libs and the wackjob conservatives in the Liberal Party.

Labor are also smart enough, and have the numbers to bring in other wedge issues when needed.

The Libs will eat their own, and Turnbull will not be able to keep the tribes from squabbling.

The Wentworth branch-stacker is too impatient and too moderate to counter the 1950s dreamers in his party. He will eventually be dumped as the polls inevitably fail to improve or fall. That leaves a cast of thoroughly unelectable candidates to take his place. Joe Hockey being the most likely replacement.

If the coalition was a dog, you'd have it put down by now.

Party time

Had a quick discussion with the boy (aged 2 and 3/4) on the way home from creche today.

BLL: Do you want Eamon to come to your party?

The boy: Yes.

BLL: How about Maxxie?

The Boy: Yes

BLL:Anyone else from creche?

The Boy: Everyone.

BLL: How about we invite the whole town?

The Boy: Yes

BLL: Even that bloke dressed in camo pants and black boots, with a shaved head. (walking along the footpath)

The Boy: Yes.

BLL: But he looks like a Nazi.

The Boy: That Nazi's just a big girl. He can't come.

Utegate's other big question

email? fake email? who cares.

I want to know why taxpayers are bailing out a bunch of third rate businessmen who own car yards?

Bloated inventory. Stock nobody wants, massive overheads, wasted water, shonky deals.

Why should I be paying taxes to support that?

Why can't you just avoid useless middle-men car dealers and pick up your new vehicle at the factory or port?

Other than the shonks, who would suffer if we used tax dollars for schools rather than bailing out 20th century businesses?

Utegate is just a meaningless sideshow. $500 mil of taxpayers money going to a totally outdated business model that ensures people pay way too much for cars, now that's a story.

Can I touch your boobs.

Dear Ms Mirabella,
Since you need a new media advisor, I have one word for you...













Prodos

Where the bloody hell are you?

Just been watching the international news in a South East Asian country.
We've had five stories involving Australia this week.
1. Pissed Andrew Symonds
2. Qualification for world cup 2010.
3. Swine flu epidemic
4. Indian bashings
5. Muslim bashing facebook site taken down.

If you listen very carefully, you can actually hear the NZ tourism board clicking champagne glasses whenever Australia gets mentioned on BBC Asia.

Landeryou

When ex- ABC journo Sarah Henderson put up her hand for pre-selection for the Liberal Party in the SW Victorian seat of Corangamite, I was going to write a sarcastic post about the ABC being a breeding ground for Tories, BUT, I have found something much better to post about.

During my google search for the Sarah henderson story, I came across this article on Vexnews with the following image.



I thought the picture looked familiar, so I check this post with an image of the current Corangamite MP Darren Cheeseman.

We have a match.

I took the photo that Vexnews is currently using without my permission.

So I ask Andrew Landeryou the following two questions?

1. Are you going to take it down ASAP and apologise?

and 2. Can you spell "T-h-i-e-v-i-n-g C-u-n-t"

Shit media in three parts

Part 1.
What is going on at The Age? Connex not achieving their punctuality targets is not news. If they actually made their targets, now that would be newsworthy!

Part 2.
Today, both the Hun and The Age ran the headline "We're not racist: Rudd" to describe the PM's response to the Indian bashings in Melbourne.

It's just a shame Rudd never uttered those words. The PM actually spoke about Australia being an open and tolerant country. He didn't actually speak about what we are apparently not. There is a slight but critical difference between the two positions.

Rudd, like his predecessor, and like the opposition leader simply won't admit the obvious. Australia does have a problem with racism. We do have racists in the country.

Have a look at the Hun's vile feedback column where racial vilification is tolerated.

take a shower and go home if you dont like it here. simple.

Howard regularly ran the intellectually bankrupt black and white line that, "Australia is not a racist country". It's a pathetic generalisation that would be politically difficult to disagree with. State the obvious that there are race issues in this country and you would get ever conservative dirt bag claiming you think "Australia's racist".

Rudd and Turnbull don't stoop to Howard's level, but the media continue to run the old "We're not racist" bullshit line. And do you thinks it's too much to ask The Hun to stop giving racist cunts a platform on the paper's web page?

Part 3.

Sydney deserves a thoroughly crap little paper when these are the reader's top stories for the day.

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