Wednesday, March 01, 2006

True liberals aren't celebrating 10 years of Rodentry

Divisiveness savaged:
Dr Hewson accused Mr Howard — who yesterday raised the prospect of another decade of Coalition rule — of having "run on his prejudices a lot" during the past 10 years, and urged a return to less divisive social policy in coming years. "In value terms, we've gone backwards. There has been a tendency to be divisive".
He'll turn up and eat the canapes anyway, unlike some:
Malcolm Fraser, who has become deeply disillusioned with elements of Coalition social policy, will be attending a family function.
Ah Malcolm, you weren't meant to take the whole 'liberal' thing literally. It's like the 'democratic' in 'democratic socialist'...

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

This morning one of the guys in the office said how happy he was with the Howard government and how they have managed the economy.

When I commented that they have played to people's fears (referring to the boat people, war in Iraq, Muslim debate), he made a racist comment.

I think there are a lot of small l liberals out there who want more money for education and health, but realise that in order to stay in power, Howard needs to play on people's fears.

I think this would change if there was more intellectuals & stronger personalities in opposition. But who wants to go into politics these days? It's a horrible sport to play.

R.H. said...

Yes, old 'Birthday Cake' Hewson. Haven't heard from him for a while.
Maybe he's worked out by now whether those little candy decorations on top of a birthday cake are subject to GST.

phil said...

I once met Fraser in about 1984 when he was just out of office but still the 'enemy'. He was very charming and quite down to earth. I had to revise my opinion of him, it only took about 20 years.

Anonymous said...

They should be dealing with this...and join feingold before celebrating

Feingold Calls Warrantless Wiretaps an Impeachable Offense