Wayne Berry ejects Jon Stanhope from the Assembly

I think was all done so as to place a post on RA and raise Sonics profile.

Stanhope would be fine with the feds, he’d never make the front bench so he really couldn’t do anything.

Thus reasoned the poor preselectors for Robertson.

Faulkner and Stanhope, the Senate Estimates dream team that never was.

You never do know what tomorrow will bring.

There’s a possible poll in this johnboy.

Would you prefer Jon Stanhope

a) As Chief Minister
b) As a House of Reps backbencher
c) As a Senator
d) In retirement

Yeah Granny, you’re right. On first reflection I thought he has to be better than Ellis. But on second reflection imagine the delusions of grandeur he could get on the hill. In the ACT he spends half his time hectoring the feds. But on the hill he would spend half his time hectoring other countries (or planets).

It would be best pensioning him off altogether. He is looking very old these days and I am sure he has some good public sector superannuation. He might be better than Ellis, but surely the Labor factions can cough up someone much brighter and nicer than Jon.

Personally I always thought he was wasted anywhere but the senate.

Teepee, are you on drugs? The last thing we want is Stanhope on the hill.

I’m sorry but I seriously think you should slow your mouth down for a second and let your brain do some catching up.

You know it makes sense.

; )

Stereotypical Labor + Terse + Anal + Nobody + Homophilic + Ovine + Prissy + Emperor = STANHOPE. Well done Wayne, the man is a git. I don’t know much about Zed, but seriously Jon is a fool.

bd84 has a good idea. Much as I think Stanhope is a terrible Chief Minister, he would at least represent an upgrade on Annette Ellis. If he went to the big hill and played little fish in a big pond for a while, then his fed colleagues could beat some humility into him and maybe make a better man out of him in the long run. I just think he’s in a rut in the ACT – his head has grown too big and his decisions are often quite flippant and disregard community views and wellbeing.

If he was ignoring Berry today then maybe he does that regularly and Wayne just got sick of it. I don’t think any Premier in any other state has been turfed by their own Speakers. A canny politician has some listening skills and hears what the umpire says.

Granny said :

tom-tom said :

what on earth was going on in there?

Oh, to have been a fly on the wall.

: )

You can watch the assembly sittings on the interwebs.. link is somewhere on http://www.parliament.act.gov.au .. it’s not a whole heap of fun thing to do though, it’s like listening to 3rd graders fight in the playground, worse than federal parliament too.

At least he’s getting in some good practice at getting thrown out of the assembly for what will happen in less than 2 months time.

The ABC reckons they could have.

On the other hand it looks like there were only two other Government members in the chamber at the time and you need to be quick on your feet.

If it was Karin and Katy then my mail is neither are particularly well-disposed to the Brave Leader these days.

Could the gubmint members actually have stopped it?

I can’t recall whether a division in this circumstance permits members to come in before the doors are locked.

OK – so what’s he going to say about this tomorrow?

– “I get passionate about politics and I don’t resile from that”

– “I didn’t hear what Wayne said”

– “This goes to show how impartial Wayne is as speaker, which is a great thing for ACt politics and reflects well on the ACT labor party.”

Naughty Granny is exulting and reveling in the situation. Nice Granny is starting to feel a bit sorry for him. Nice Granny is such a nuisance.

teepee; karin mcdonald didn’t lose pre-selection; she didn’t stand. can you just imagine the whinge here if they had called a division?

saw it all on tv, looked a pretty nothing incident, the sort of thing that happens in the lead up to every election, i distinctly remember worse scenes in the house on the hill last year.

Just a shame he can’t eject him from Canberra on a permanent basis.

ABC Tv showed Stanhope taking the walk. There were two Labor colleagues at least near him. One was Karin Macdonald and the other had blond hair. I guess that Karin owes no-one anything after not getting the numbers for preselection.

You have to respect Wayne Berry’s backbone. He’s either very impartial as chair, or not afraid to let Mr Stanhope know there is no love lost.

Win TV said some of his colleagues could have bailed him out but didn’t. Not sure how it works locally but in the fed parliament you can call a vote to kick someone or keep them in. Presumably the Labor MLAs in the chamber failed to call a vote or didn’t call for a division. Someone will be in trouble in the locker rooms. An angry Jon is not a pretty sight.

Didn’t Sonic see the yellow card?

hahahahahahahahaha!

the mayor has to sit in the naughty corner for 3 hours

hope he donned the dunce’s hat

*hehe* … or if they are saying something you don’t want to hear.

“STOP THAT FIGHTING AT ONCE AND BE QUIET OR I’LL SEND YOU TO YOUR ROOM!” I bellow at the top of my lungs. And like Schultz, they hear nothing ….

Shame Wayne isn’t standing for the next election…

It’s hard to hear what someone is saying when you’re busy talking over the top of them.

tom-tom said :

what on earth was going on in there?

Oh, to have been a fly on the wall.

: )

tom-tom said :

does the ABC story mention the circus that was obviously performing at the time? i mean seriously; they sit 2 metres away from each other, how could he not have heard?….. what on earth was going on in there?

stanhope had his mouth open. maybe his ears were closed in self-preservation??

does the ABC story mention the circus that was obviously performing at the time? i mean seriously; they sit 2 metres away from each other, how could he not have heard?….. what on earth was going on in there?

My mouth is still agape, but seriously …

“Well done that man!”

: )

It was kind of a lemming thing to do – but, gee, it must have felt good!

The naughty mat … haha!! Are there pictures?

Hehe.

john howard. last election.