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Tosser drunk Kerr. Day of Shame. Dismissal of a democratically elected Government on Remembrance Day 1975. End of argument/shibboleth that the monarchy guaranteed fair play. End of reason for Australia to kiss HM's arse surely.

Only an ego maniac like Rudd could announce his resignation from the Australian Govt Ministry from a Hotel in Washington DC ! Apparently, it is called, very appropriately, the Willard Hotel. He had it all; an un-contested elevation to Labour Leader. An election win over Howard. Then he blew it by...

This has exactly what to do with the hundreds of thousands people whom are being plunged into unemployment and hopelessnes thanks to Cameron, Nick Clegg and the happy clappy Lib

Dems, and couldn't give a stuff if someone is gay or not?

It's an old political spin doctor trick . . create a fizz ...

Keating was great. He set Australia up for a decades plus of prosperity.

Especially the superannuation scheme. Unfortunately Howard and Costello came along afterwards, and pissed it all up against the wall in ridiculous tax cuts, popular at the time, but without explanation to people what that r...

I think to commentate on the Cuban economy as an American, and call it a failure, when the world's biggest superpower (USA) cannot figure out how to provide hospital care to all it's citizens, has an appalling record for looking after it's soldiers after it's sent them into war, and has whole big...

Counter logic isn't it, to say taxing the rich more won't work, when nearly 3 decades of taxing them less and giving them ever bigger tax breaks has produced more joblessness and poverty in America? Surely the real problem is that the tax system has no integrity. If the tax rate is 20% and you ea...

I think Keating had every right to point the bone at Costello. Keating was Treasurer once, wanted to be PM, and had the guts to throw away being a minsiter and go to the backbench and then win the top job when Hawke went to bits without him. And then win an unwinnable election for Labour once he...

Sir Les reminds one of Menzies. Parody of himself! Sir Les's advantage is that he is funny . . . whereas Menzies was dour, and then handed over to a procession of bunnies. Holt. Gorton. McMahon. Snedden. Fraser, Peacock, Howard, both again, Downer, and then Nelson and Julie, Turnbull and Julie, a...

If it is correct that Sharples says Maori want to be Maori first, and NZ citizen second (not sure that's what he really said) . . but if he did, no problem, surely?

Maori pay no tax, No GST. Get no pensions, no dole, no DPB, and pay for their own education. Which will last five minutes before tr...

The are more poor Maori in Tariana Turia's seat than there were when she first got elected to Parliament, and less Maori jobs. She's had years of parliamentary salary, ministerial houses, ministerial salary, lots of good parliamentary super in the bag, and has been holding hands with the national...

Apparently in 1840 Maori had ocean going fishing boats which regularly went out to 200 km offshore. They were also exploring for gas and oil.

Had a joined up Aotearoa govt which covered all the beaches and ports, didn't try constantly to kill each others's tribes, or sub-tribes, and owned radio a...

That'a withering attack? I've been flogged with a dead lettuce.

The Labour Party's problem is it hasn't produced a leader in 20 years who ever actually worked in a real job, worried about paying the rent or gas bill, and didnt have a plummy public school accent. Plastic careerists, like Ed and br...

Xmas Fairy Tale: There was a Treaty called Lisbon. There was a Labour govt which both Miliband brothers were part of. There was a commitment by that govt that anything which altered UK/ versus Europe would go to a referendum. Then there was a Lisbon Treaty, and the UK didn't get a referendum, an...

Ed, and his brother, happily members of the govt which foisted the Lisbon Treaty on the country without a referendum, previously promised, because from Phoney Tony down they all knew the public would say 'no', Like all labour luminaries of recent years he's never dirtied his hands in low jobs, ne...

Good thing he found those weapons of mass destruction in Iraq bfore Saddam could use 'em huh? The slingshots, the air-rifles, the shang-eyes. That famous lapse of judgement has cost American servicepeople their lives, and taxpayers mutil-billions which might have been better spent seeing anyone w...

Palin would probably have spent $2bn a week on clothes . . LOL.

If Bush has immgrated from America to Russia, the I.Q. of both countries would have gone up surely. Eisenhower (a Republican, and a war hero) famously warned Kennedy about the power of the military-industrial complex. The arms firms...

Might have been more interesting if Benn had asked Saddam "what military weapons have you bought from which countries over the years?"

"To which countries, or companies thereof, has your administration sold oil to over the years and been given back-handers for"? Would have been very interesting i...

Callaghan should hav gone polls were good, instead of 'leaving her standing at the church'; missing the moment. He might have won; or lost narrowly. If he lost the scars within the Tories over EU, and Thatcher/Heath would have been fratricidal; Labour would have been back within a year. Benn's vi...

Merkel should have stayed in old East Germany. She seems to be hell bent on Germany controlling the EU and Euro currency. The second was always a mis-conceived nonsence .. . it will cost generations of German taxpayers a fortune to satisfy Merkel's desire to control the Euro currency and keep it ...

I hope the 50 mill quid for summer school helps british kids work out how to make sure there is no more Europe without a referendum !! Nick and his euro-phile mates would just love that exercise in 'grass-roots democracy'. NOT. Whoops, did someone mention Lisbon, which no one in the UK ever to vo...

A briliant case of spending quite a while saying nothing of any substance, very sincerely. As in, thanks for the Deputy PM title, and I will pretend it's actually relevant and means anything to you in the party till the last possible day!

Goodbye in advance, and thanks for all the fish! And keep ...

Nick got a nice job title, Deputy PM. The UK gets still more exposure to the Euro Zone, and still no referendum on rolling back the unconstitutional Lisbon Treaty imposition. And no actual gaurantee on any binding referendum on Merkel's current plans for 'reforming' Europe either. The LibDems are...

The long hard road is actually to get woolly woofters like Clegg, and the LibDems to see reality; that there should not be a federal Europe politically and economically dictated by Herr Merkel and her successors. Instead there should just be a Euro free trade zone, with each country keeping full ...

Fabulous. Well done. Very nice. Post more if you wish . . . you are a thinking man's delight, and probably a wonderful encouragement to women whom delight in showing stylish magic! Enjoyed it greatly . . . and would definitely date you to a nice dinner if you wore the coat. (But you might have to...

Imagine if he had said "I want to tell everything I know about my dealings, and my country's business dealings, military included, with every country .. . Russian, Europe, UK, America, Arab . . . for the whole time of my rule."

He would probably have been shot immediately, instead of tried and h...

Andrlebaron seems to have selective memory loss. The people who triggered the Poll Pot genocide were Dick Nixon and Kissinger, whom illegally authorised the bombing of Cambodia back into the stone age, and created the fertile ground for PollPot which they never opposed once it happened. It's actu...

Surely the big message is that he got away with it . . . what does that say? And his successors are likewise getting away with it. What's changed?

Nice idea. But will tragically be corrupted, like so many initiatives before, by well-placed Maori stealing from their less well-off intended recipients of help. Followed by duck-shoving by those who took the money, and a natural sense of grievance by those not helped, and a failure to pin the bl...

Campbell only serves to remind me NZ should import serious political interviewers. Because NZ hasn't got any. There must be BBC HardTalk staff who wouldn't mind a 3 yearly jaunt to NZ surely? There hasn't been a decent political leader interview conducted by someone who knew what they were doing,...

I think Winston's problem was that he was the Nat's favourite Maori in a suit, till he did the unthinkable and formed a voting coalition with Labour. Then the sharks moved in.

Fraser does not explain how he defends Coalition Senators, paid by the taxpayer, effectively going on strike, by not voting on the Budget. If they had voted that Budget down, fair enough, an election would happen. But they didnt vote that Budget down. In fact they passed it after Kerr did the di...

With the exception of Paul Keating, Whitlam was the last Federal Labour Party leader with a spine and a vision. They have all been . . Hayden, Hawke, Beazley, Crean, Rudd, Gillard, . . people driven by focus groups and opinion polls since. Poll driven fruit cakes. Definitely not working clas...

Apparently she never did anything she didn't willingly want to do, so what's her big problem?

Nixon an advocate for equal rights? You are joking? When in his public career of years in Congress, 8 years as Vice Pres, and 6 years as President was he that? Never, actually. You can only re-write so much history. He opened with china, yes. He and Mao had something in common . . using the state...

He was right . . people had to know whether their President was a crook. And they found out he was, and a liar for saying "I'm not a crook". So did he go to jail? No. He got a glorious state funeral. And amassed considerable wealth. While his hard-line Republican administration busted many peopl...

The only paper/magazine in England worth reading. Long may it reign, independantly.

Crikey, Tony must be so glad that his government cetainly wasn't chummy with the Murdoch press . . ! And now, we can all fall about laughing.

Whatver happened to Phony Tony and Gordon's promise of a referendum on anything which changed the relationship with the EU, a.k.a. Lisbon? The UK didn't get to vote on Lisbon, because Blair/Brown knew voters would say 'no". Ireland did vote, and said 'no'. So were told to vote again. How jolly d...

It's shocking . . Shock! Horror! Gasp! that anyone should think Rebekah has any responsibility. After all, she was only paid to manage the paper . . how ridiculous to suggest she should therefore know what was going on. And who signed cheques, and to whom, for what services?

Does no one unders...

The people in the cross-hairs should be Brooks, Murdoch, and the cops who took money, and everyone who signed the cheques to the phone-busters and everyone who received one of those cheques. Until they all get sacked, prosecuted, and if convicted imprisoned, all the fuss and bother and drawn out ...

Murdoch sucks. The politicans whom have supped at his table suck 2 . . . there's lots of them. Labour, Conservative, LibDem . . over the last 20 years. Whom will be shuffling in their shoes uneasily just now.

The 'old boys' system will win . . all sorts of meaningless, pre-emptorally neutere...

And why should she resign? After all, it's not like she knew what was going on. She was just paid truck-loads to manage the joint. Not fair to say she should be sacked for not knowing what was going on. Modern managers don't know whats going on. They are paid to go to business-friendly meetings e...

Harriet, you voted for the Iraq war didn't you?

Humm . . . reality check. Both Milibands and Harriet actually voted for the Iraq war. All three being phoney tony followers at the time. All three into the Iraq thing up to their elbows.

The contest was a farce .. after Bliar, Brown, the best New Labour could come up with was a contest between...