Tony Abbott as UK advisor...

stickygirl

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The UK PM pretends to be a chummy, bit toffy-nose, but basically a decent chap. You realise it's a pretence when you count how many kids he has from different partners or who he appoints to join him on his political ride... like Tony Abbott: disgraced ex-Australian PM with rabid homophobic and misogynistic politicians views, worse possibly than Trump.

Boris's idea is to appoint him as an adviser for the Board of Trade, which makes him a cunt by association.

Some of Abbott's infamous quotes
"What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it's going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up,"
"Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations."
“There is no doubt that [homosexuality] challenges, if you like, orthodox notions of the right order of things.”
"If man-made CO2 was quite the villain that many of these people say it is, why hasn't there just been a steady increase starting in 1750, and moving in a linear way up the graph?"

Boris, like Trump, thinks that people have short memories eg 'she won't remember I'm the father - she was drunk' kinda thinking. Or that his government pushed vulnerable patients into care-homes at the start of the pandemic, resulting in 400 deaths a day. Or that he dithered in the face of obvious, leaving lock-down a week late, resulting in the UK breaking every record for infections and deaths.

Unfortunately we're stuck with a cunt as a PM for another couple of years and we'll have to put up with more ill-judged and unnecessary actions from him before he's out.
 
Also, Abbott... isn't an expert on trade? Trade has never been part of his portfolio AFAIK. When he was PM he let his Trade Minister handle that side of things.

I assume this appointment is meant to support the fiction that the UK will make up for all the EU trade it's losing by striking grand new deals with The Colonies. Like a guy who's just ditched his partner in a mid-life crisis and is now trying to hook up with his ex of 20 years ago who lives on the other side of the world.
 
It's like hanging out with a felon and saying, well he served his time and he told me he thought my business plan was great, so he must be a good guy. When has a politician ever promoted someone, based on their qualifications or track record? There's some form of nepotism going on because 'he talks the same talk as us. He speaks 'strine so it's a foothold in a country where we tested out atom bombs so why not? Says he can get us a good deal on uranium to power our Chinese reactor'
 
It's like hanging out with a felon and saying, well he served his time and he told me he thought my business plan was great, so he must be a good guy. When has a politician ever promoted someone, based on their qualifications or track record? There's some form of nepotism going on because 'he talks the same talk as us. He speaks 'strine so it's a foothold in a country where we tested out atom bombs so why not? Says he can get us a good deal on uranium to power our Chinese reactor'

Seeing some speculation that he might be hoping to take out UK citizenship and run for Parliament there. This would be grimly hilarious if true, because there's been a sort of birther conspiracy for years that he hadn't properly renounced his UK citizenship (he was born in England IIRC) and so wasn't eligible to be Prime Minister of Australia.
 
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