"Canberra News, Views and Opinion"
[First filed: February 20, 2009 @ 14:21]
The new Labor back bencher Joy Burch is up in arms that her Liberal colleague Alistair Coe has been distributing stickers at O-week featuring the slogan “Rack off lefty scum”.
She’d like to know if he and his leader Zed Seselja think she’s scum.
Ms Burch said she was shocked to see Liberal MLA Alistair Coe distributing unauthorised Liberal Party stickers reading “Rack off lefty scum” to ANU students at this week’s O-Week celebrations.
Ms Burch said the slogan was insulting to Canberra voters and showed contempt for the intelligence of the ACT’s student community.
Young men tempted to apply these stickers in a high spirited bout of champagne charlie-ism are advised that most of the women they’ll ever want to sleep with are lefties.
Alistair probably needs to remember that since his election he’s supposed to be a grown-up now.
UPDATED: It’s claim and counter claim with this statement from Alistair and more offensive material from the other side. Here’s what Alistair had to say:
“I am, however, extremely surprised by this attack by Ms Burch, as the stand she attended for the Labor party was handing out promotional items with the headline: “Don’t get F***ed at work.” [below]
“Clearly, this opportunistic attack by Ms Burch has backfired.
“I think we should leave the Uni political stunts alone and get on with the job of being MLAs.”
[Image blurred by me to protect delicate sensibilities]
ANOTHER UPDATE: Joy Burch’s office have sent in this additional note:
“The flyer that Alistair refers to has nothing to do with the Labor Party, nor was it at the Labor stall which I attended.
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Isn’t that the Federal Liberal logo all over these things, instead of the ACT Divisional crap?
(so isn’t it a Secretariat activity that Joy is complaining about, instead of Deadhead Zed & co stunt?)
And yet, lefty scum really should rack off…
Alistair Coe: “I have stickers! And marbles! Let’s play yo-yos! No, I’m Monkey Magic and you’re Pigsy!”
Is that a mooseheads privilege card there too? Very grown up lol
As should narrow-minded, right-wing conservatives.
Those stickers verge on hate mongering.
The issue isn’t who was making the stickers, it’s who was distributing them.
The Canberra Liberals figureheads seem to be very much candidates for the Children’s Table at Liberal Party events, so this isn’t really a change of form.
Also: Joy should obey the Rule #1 of the internet (especially when reporting that she saw someone do something)…
Pics or it didn’t happen.
It’s a shame that “lefty scum” Joy Burch doesn’t concentrate on something a bit more relevant and important for the ACT; like our finances and deteriorating services rather than student politics.
Of course the “left scum” students groups would never get up to such political mud racking!
It would be good if the Labor party were a little left… or, at least a little left of the Liberal party.
I think they should be distributed more. Typical toddler tactics from the just plain ignorant factions of the Liberals. Even less people would want to be associated with them!
And the Liberals wonder why they keep losing in the ACT…
Slang One, such as a person or an element of society, that is regarded as despicable or worthless.
Joy if the sticker said “Joy Burch is Scrum” then maybe you should take offence and contribute some of your tax funded time.
the right wing behaving like children? what a surprise.
Politics suffers when humour is sacrificed. The problem here is that the humour is stale and boring.
The left in this country (as far as the ALP can be described as the left) has always been more interesting with it’s invective. My all time favourite was “conger line of suckholes”.
That’s because the left in this country actually has some smart cookies among them
frontrow said :
Hah, I like your more surreal version, but for the record, conger = type of eel, conga = weird dance done at houseparties in the 70s and what Latham said.
Maybe I should read Hansard more often.
Would I find “pissant swamp” in there or is that something different, too?
frontrow said :
Maybe if they updated the hansard within months of the relevant sitting many more of us would read it.
The stickers were distributed by the ANU Liberal Club which is not a part of the Liberal Party.
This is probably the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Liberal Clubs have been distributing stickers of this nature for donkeys years, and the Left and Right Labor Clubs have done the same. Students manage to see the good humour in it all and usually we get on fantastically with each other.
Even if Alistair did hand them out, frankly who gives a toss. Joy Burch is acting like a twit.
frontrow said :
I’ll agree with that. Personally I think that is the least humorous of the stickers I’ve seen.
This is a classic case of glass houses. Some ALP backbencher blockhead screams outrage over nothing more than silly uni stunts. And what happens? She walks right into a propellar! Of course, this comes on the back of a fake press release from Mary Porter, another talented Labor backbencher. Really kicking goals.
They’re both acting like twits. Our local government runs more like a three ring circus at the best of times.
The attempts from both sides at trying to make themselves relevant and appeal to normal intelligent people are laughable. I’m ashamed of the lot of them.
Out of touch wankers.
jakez said :
It WAS however a part of the Liberal party until last year wasn’t it?
Also I can’t help but think that the Labor promo items would be particularly offensive to members of the Scarlet Alliance and sex industry workers in general.
Tetranitrate said :
Funny!
)
I prefer to be made love to at work!
http://www.rackoffleftyscum.com.au
It starts
Tetranitrate said :
Yes it was as you well know tetranitrate considering you were intimately involved in that issue. Don’t get me wrong, I’m perfectly comfortable with the Liberal Party being a party to such things (hypothetically of course, as I said above I find that particular sticker to be the lamest of the ones that I’ve seen).
Typical conservatives… I haven’t heard “rack off” said by anyone born after 1962.
Squil said :
Hearbreak High used it…
I remeber the phrase ‘rack off Drazic’ quite fondly.
Squil said :
It’s because they are too pussy to say f*** off lefty scum.
mumsy wouldn’t pay for that one…