Some comic relief today as MB rhetoric sinks into the political debate at an unconscious level:
Ms Palaszczuk yesterday ramped up her campaign for federal funding for another gas pipeline for the Galilee Basin, and attacked the Prime Minister for failing to contact her before he announced in Brisbane last week a plan to restrict gas exports if there was a domestic shortage.
A furious Ms Palaszczuk said the policy would snatch royalties from Queensland and was the “last straw” in an escalation of tensions with Mr Turnbull, which began during last month’s Cyclone Debbie.
“All we’ve seen lately is a fly-in, fly-out Prime Minister who is espousing thought bubbles without any deep policy conversation,” Ms Palaszczuk said.
And the riposte:
“I am at a loss to understand why she chose to, you know, use such personal and bitter language about me. It was uncalled for, it was unnecessary, it had no basis in fact,” Mr Turnbull told reporters in Townsville on Monday.
…“I am not going to let personal attacks like that get in the way of my or my government’s commitment to the people of Queensland,” the prime minister said.
Ms Palaszczuk reiterated her criticism of the prime minister at a Labour Day march in Brisbane on Monday. “My state was being faced with a natural disaster,” she said. “I was putting the people of this state first and he was putting himself first. “Then he was sending out his right hand lieutenant Barnaby Joyce, an ex-Queenslander who turned his back on Queensland, to come here and start arguing about paperwork when families were going through some of the hardest time they’ve ever had to face.”
Senior Coalition ministers have hit back at Ms Palaszczuk and labelled her as “do nothing” after she accused Mr Turnbull of being a worse prime minister than Mr Abbott.
In an interview with The Sunday Times in Queensland, Ms Palaszczuk said her relations with the Prime Minister was at “breaking point” ahead of the May budget where she feared the state would miss out on funding.
“We have to drag him kicking and screaming to support projects — M1 upgrades, new Townsville stadium, and the cross river rail.”
She said he was an arrogant and disrespectful. “I now believe he is worse than Tony Abbott,” she said. “When Tony Abbott was prime minister, I could get straight answers. I didn’t always like what he had to say, but he stuck to it.”
As said many times, Do-nothing Malcolm has a thoroughly alienating personality and politics, always suavely saying the right thing then dropping stakeholders cold afterwards, raising expectations then dashing them.
By comparison, although Tony Abbott was a liar and troglodyte but he was openly so. It’s the difference between the criminal and crooked cop.
It remains my view that the longer Do-nothing Malcolm is PM, the more people will be enraged.
