16 March 2007

Blame Hargreaves for Grassby, not me: Stanhope

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Chief Minister Jon Stanhope dropped Minister for Multicultural Affairs John Hargreaves right in it on ABC radio (via AAP) by saying he wouldn’t have signed off on the Grassby statue … if he’d known about it.

As usual, it’s all about denying any personal responsibility for his own Government’s actions.

“I understand the point that is being made and if I had my time again or if I was involved in the decision perhaps the outcome would have been different,” Mr Stanhope said.

“Or perhaps if our processes had been more rigorous at the time and I acknowledge that they weren’t.”

Does it perhaps suggest that Stanhope tooks his eye off the ball during the run up to the budget because of the last-minute money squeeze?

He does seem to take his eye off the ball a lot.

You’ve gotta love the last line: The chief minister compared the controversy to the furore that surrounded the Whitlam government’s decision to buy Jackson Pollock’s work, Blue Poles.

Comparing Blue Poles with a crappy bronze of a mafia-linked spiv? Who does he think he is kidding?

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I listened to the radio thingy. A caller wanted to know why the hospital had to raise money for a laser eye thingy for newborn babies through donations, but the government was paying for the Grassby statue with taxpayer funds. Stanhope was trying to get out of it by saying that perhaps in hindsight it wasn’t the best decision, but that arts funding is important… the ABC presenter quite rightly corrected him that it wasn’t a question of arts funding in general, but about the priorities of paying for a statue of a politician.

Very interesting, and Stanhope sounded like a fool.

Wow, we have a new nutter of monumental proportions.

Shall we march on parliament and reclaim the Territory?

I thought that was why you voted labor in?

Try being green, you vote for them and vote for them, but they never get in, so the libs win the next election and we start turning back the aristocrsy of the mediaval period while the blessed capos hock everything and blame the workers for being slack.

As to your revolution mate, everyone knows its broken, no one can be bothered fixxing it, the only way to fix something up, let alone voting for a lying capo to claim he will, while his boss continues hocking all the treasures of the classical period, labour only looks as far forward as the 18th century not bad but repetitive.

I reckon we’ve had enough practice revolutions and democratic elections, I reckon we should double the dole, for students, and leave the doll bludgers alone, and legalise pot so they can do something useful.

Then, we should send the lawyers from the family court to saudi arabi, and cut their hands off.

Then we have an almost bloodless coup, and our kids are safer.

Just kidding, but really, I think Pauline hanson would agree with me here, we should lock the legal system up in the Pri$on system, just so they know what they are building.

Stanhope, should for instance, go and try a coupld of months at BRC, I tell you, we would see a real reveiw on the Pri$on.

So, I am voting green again, but I would rather the bribed labour goverment than liberals.

Bob Brown for PM.

Hargraves is history – he closed old Canberra’s library, supported school closures and the dragway and used my money to erect a statue to a bloke who makes Arfur (in ‘Minder’ – played by George Cole) look good.

Daily Terror blames Stanhope for approving the statue in todys editorial.

As I was indicating, what an image!

You don’t know how old I am. It might be something you don’t want to encourage.

Louise over a hotair vent wearing a kilt.

you’ll have to wear it traditionally Louise… watch out for wind gusts

I’ld go out and buy a kilt for the occasion.

I’ll carry a torch or a pitchfork in your angry mob.

There’s no justice like angry mob justice…

queen_vic_toria_II2:13 pm 16 Mar 07

I’m with Thumper!!!

Name the date and time and I am there!

apparently stanhope was having dinner with a rabbi, a watchmaker and a CPA when the statue decision was taken…

I’ve seen better decision making by drunks with corporate credit cards …

Maybe it’s the start of a cabinet rift. one can only hope.

barking toad2:03 pm 16 Mar 07

Does the mayor really expect us to believe he didn’t know about this project from the outset? Sure, there may not be a formal John to Jon memo seeking funding approval. But John didn’t mention to Jon in a puffy chested way about his grandiose plan? Purleeeeease!

Jon and Johnny are no longer sweethearts.

FOI: Where was Jon when they were making the decision about erecting a statue to big Al ?

What was he doing ?
Was he on a Junket ?
Why did his minor ministers not think it important enough to report to him ?

Sonic really is a tosser isn’t he ???

barking toad1:09 pm 16 Mar 07

Oh dear.

JOHN : “Gidday Jon, I was thinking about getting a statue done…

JON : “Yeah, yeah, whatever …shut the door on ya way out!”….(now where was I on that Friday night?)

LATER….

JOHN : “Al Grassby deserves a statue. He was another JFK. And another Abe Lincoln!”

JON:…(Shit. How can I spin out of this! It’s taken 4 years to sort that Friday. I know. That Blue Poles thing – that’ll throw ’em). “Simon, leave that Epic shit alone for a moment and get someone to find out about Blue Poles. And take that silly jacket off.”

As if anything happens in that govt. if King Jon hasn’t approved it.

No care and no responsibility.

Now JB if Standope lobbed into flyhalf for the Brumbies there’d be no dramas with passing.

He is accountable. If he feels so he should remove the funding. I mentioned this very topic to someone a short while ago and their reply was ‘what an asshole’. That summed it up for me.

All care and no responsibility. What a weasel

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