BOILING BILLY LOSES IT Tim Blair, The Daily Telegraph
May 31, 2019 10:22am
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So it turns out Bill Shorten was crazy all along. Just as well we didn’t elect him, then: The former opposition leader told Labor’s party room in Canberra that the odds were stacked against him because of “powerful vested interests”.
“I understand there are lessons to be learned from defeat,” he told the Labor Party room.
“We were up against corporate leviathans, a financial behemoth, spending hundreds of millions of dollars telling lies, spreading fear.
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“Powerful vested interests campaigned against us. Through sections of the media itself, and they got what they wanted.
“And I understand that neither of these challenges disappeared on election night. They’re still out there for us to face. It is important we face them with courage and honesty, with principle, and unity.”
Unity? Shorten tore down two Labor PMs then destroyed himself by refusing to tell Australians how much of their money he planned to spend. He converted years of poll leadership into a fantastic defeat. And now Labor’s new chief finds himself drawn into the Shorten vortex: Anthony Albanese has admitted he agrees with Bill Shorten that “vested interests” had a hand in the party’s shock federal election defeat.
“There is no doubt that vested interests did play a role,” he told Nine’s Today program on Friday.
Further on bad loser Bill from Chris Kenny: The former Labor leader had spent the best part of six years amplifying his modern version of class warfare, dividing the community, setting working families against the “top end of town” and urging people to endorse new taxes and spending in a highly redistributive agenda. And voters rejected it …
Why is this man smiling? Delusional diagnosis aside, the real problem with Shorten’s assessment was what such democratic denial said about voters. Again the Left side of politics was patronising to voters. The voters hadn’t got it right, according to Shorten, they had been too stupid to recognise Labor’s superior agenda and too gullible in being conned by “corporate leviathans.”
Oh dear, after denouncing those opposed to his policies as “knuckle-draggers” and “cave dwellers” during the election, Shorten was still insulting voters. His words might have made him feel better for a moment but that sort of thinking can only be a drag on Anthony Albanese and Labor as they look for that new start.
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