David Pocock wants you to get down to Garema Place for Climate Change change

maxblues said :

howeph said :

maxblues said :

It is ironic that it was the Labor party that gave electricity a bad name and now it is the Labor party that now takes offence at the word electricity being used in parliament and now considers it an insult.

Please explain?

How did Labor give electricity a bad name? When and in what context, did they take offence when it was used in parliament?

Frankly, I liked the Pieman better…

Electricity Bill is not bad and with the exodus of personnel at the last election maybe the Labor Party could be known as the Last One Turn Out The Lights Party.

Not only Bob Carr, but now Kevin Rudd, leaving the parliament. Two foreign ministers bite the dust. Last One Turn Out The Lights.

howeph said :

maxblues said :

It is ironic that it was the Labor party that gave electricity a bad name and now it is the Labor party that now takes offence at the word electricity being used in parliament and now considers it an insult.

Please explain?

How did Labor give electricity a bad name? When and in what context, did they take offence when it was used in parliament?

Frankly, I liked the Pieman better…

Electricity Bill is not bad and with the exodus of personnel at the last election maybe the Labor Party could be known as the Last One Turn Out The Lights Party.

howeph said :

maxblues said :

Please explain?

How did Labor give electricity a bad name? When and in what context, did they take offence when it was used in parliament?

The Speaker of the House of Representatives has ruled that it is not against Standing Orders to refer to Shorty as Electricity Bill. The Labor Party is outraged and obviously considers Electricity an insult.

I still don’t understand how Labor gave electricity a bad name; but “Electricity Bill” is funny.

Given the colourful name calling used by Paul Keating in parliament, Labor doesn’t have a leg to stand on.

Doh! The quoting is all screwed up above. Sorry.

maxblues said :

Please explain?

How did Labor give electricity a bad name? When and in what context, did they take offence when it was used in parliament?

The Speaker of the House of Representatives has ruled that it is not against Standing Orders to refer to Shorty as Electricity Bill. The Labor Party is outraged and obviously considers Electricity an insult.

I still don’t understand how Labor gave electricity a bad name; but “Electricity Bill” is funny.

Given the colourful name calling used by Paul Keating in parliament, Labor doesn’t have a leg to stand on.

howeph said :

When and in what context, did they take offence when it was used in parliament?

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/bronwyn-bishop-ruling-on-bill-shorten-nickname-sparks-political-row-and-labor-dissent-motion/story-fn59niix-1226758758423

howeph said :

maxblues said :

It is ironic that it was the Labor party that gave electricity a bad name and now it is the Labor party that now takes offence at the word electricity being used in parliament and now considers it an insult.

Please explain?

How did Labor give electricity a bad name? When and in what context, did they take offence when it was used in parliament?

The Speaker of the House of Representatives has ruled that it is not against Standing Orders to refer to Shorty as Electricity Bill. The Labor Party is outraged and obviously considers Electricity an insult.

maxblues said :

It is ironic that it was the Labor party that gave electricity a bad name and now it is the Labor party that now takes offence at the word electricity being used in parliament and now considers it an insult.

Please explain?

How did Labor give electricity a bad name? When and in what context, did they take offence when it was used in parliament?

It is ironic that it was the Labor party that gave electricity a bad name and now it is the Labor party that now takes offence at the word electricity being used in parliament and now considers it an insult.

Here I was hoping it was the other David Pocock…

PantsMan said :

Climate change is a load of socialist crap.

The problem with this is that you are painting yourself into a corner with this sort of crap.

The facts are apolitical.
If you make your politics dependent on an exclusion of the facts (like Abbott, Minchin, Hunt, and their 50% of the Liberal Party are doing), then you are steering your politics onto the path of inevitable irrelevancy.

The Catholic Church went through all this with the Galileo trial and their attempt to contradict fact with their political dogma. Ultimately, they had to convene Vatican II and recant from their position of anti-reason, opposing the natural sciences, to reach a more modern state where they recognised that dogma does not trump fact and that science is valid.

It’s little wonder that Abbott failed in his calling – he clearly does not have the intellect to understand where his politics are leading him.

Posterity will deal very, very harshly indeed with Tony Abbott – think Neville Chamberlain, another man who was unable to embrace the challenge of his time, and is remembered as a betrayer and as a weak fool.