Well, you have to say it in an Aussie accent to fully appreciate my language skills - oh, alright then, don't bother! Still, there is some sort of good news from Oz, or at least, one part of it, Queensland to be exact, where the people have just voted in a state-wide election. I am deeply obliged to 'SadButMadLad', a contributor to Ms. Raccoon's excellent site, who reports that their Labor party (that's how they spell it 'down under there') has just been defeated, well, not exactly defeated, more like routed, massacred, eviscerated, well and truly squidged and anything else you can think of which means annihilated. Labor, apparently, has been in power in Queensland for around twenty years and now they are no more. Like Monty Python's famous parrot:
This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!
It seems likely that they will fail to reach the bare minimum of 8 seats and that means they will not even count as a proper political party! Oh, joy unconfined - but! As the SadButMadLad reminds us, the Oz equivalent of the Tories, which has not so much swept the board as smashed it to smithereens, is made up of more or less the same sort of lying liars and toads as the other lot, so nothing much will change.
Remind you of anywhere, by any chance?
Don't you worry about that.
Posted by: dearieme | Sunday, 25 March 2012 at 23:00
The Chinese houseboy and I sat on Saturday night, watching the electorates fall like skittles, and laughing with delight.
Labor is left with 7, count 'em, 7 seats..... ha ha ha!
My electorate, Cairns, has been Labor for 108 years... but, no more.
ha ha ha ... smirk, smirk.
Yes, DM, don't you worry about that. Joh, who has gone to another place, possibly south, will be grinning madly into his bucket of peanuts.
Duff, figure it out for yourself .. or DM may wish to enlighten you.
Posted by: Andra | Monday, 26 March 2012 at 00:14
I thought it was only JK who confused me with his convoluted, enigmatic style but I haven't a clue what either of you are on about! What am I supposed not to worry about and who is Joh?
Posted by: David Duff | Monday, 26 March 2012 at 08:24
Joh was the sometime, long-time Premier of Queensland. When quizzed about any embarrassment "Don't you worry about that" was his customary reply. We lived in Brizie for a six-month years ago, but it was after his time. He was still much talked about, though. Compared to life in douce Adelaide, life in Brizie had more of a rumbustious flavour.
Posted by: dearieme | Monday, 26 March 2012 at 13:05
Ah, gotcha! You mean he would have done well in Chicago.
Posted by: David Duff | Monday, 26 March 2012 at 14:00
Probably not: he was Danish rather than Italian, black, Irish or Jewish.
Posted by: dearieme | Monday, 26 March 2012 at 15:06