Radical New Liberal Policy : "We Are Listening To The Australian People"
What exactly are the Liberal Party going to be opposed to in opposition?
Apparently, the Brendan Nelson led Liberals have vowed to fight to ensure that the Labor Party lives up to promise to rollback the WorkChoices regime they forced onto the Australian people, against their will.
At a news conference with Deputy Leader Julie Bishop, Dr Nelson said the Coalition would now scrutinise the Rudd Labor Government's scrapping of the laws to ensure it was "implemented as stated''.
"We will be working very hard to make sure that the legislation the Labor Party and Mr Rudd present to the Australian Parliament is consistent with the last stated position of the Labor Party,'' he said.
Wow. who needs drugs? Just try and wrap your head around that. The Liberal Party is now going to "scrutinise" the Labor Party's windback of WorkChoices to make sure that they live up to their promise to get rid of the John Howard's biggest political ambition : utterly stripping away the most essential rights of Australian workers, destroying the unions, and handing control of Australia's workforce to the country's biggest corporations.
Nelson is basically saying : "We introduced it, now we're going to make sure that you really get rid of it."
Parliament next year will be hallucinogenic if this is any indication of how Monty Pythonesque the Liberal Party will be in opposition.The rest of the story :
"We have listened and we have learned, and one of the issues that was very important to the Australian people in changing the Government on November 24 was that of WorkChoices," he said.
"We've listened to the Australian people, we respect the decisions they have made, and WorkChoices is dead."
Dr Nelson said the package of industrial reforms was "one of the reasons'' Australians voted to change the Government.
The Liberal Party insist they are now listening to the Australian people. Talk about a revolution. Actually listening to the majority collective opinion of the Australian people? WorkChoices was brought in because the Liberal Party had spent so long listening to the opinions and demands of Australia's business community.
So WorkChoices is dead. Well, that was a complete waste of another $700 or $800 million dollars.
How many hospitals and schools would that kind of money brought up to world's best standards?
Brendan Nelson is busy chipping away at a new tombstone today. The one that will mark the political grave of Australia's biggest champion of WorkChoices - Joe Hockey.
It's no exaggeration. John Howard really did destroy the Liberal Party.
Dry your eyes.
