Welcome to the club, Emmanuel Macron

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Suddenly the world knows what it is like to be an Australian voter:

President Emmanuel Macron says his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison lied to him on the submarine pact with the U.S. and the U.K.

…Asked if he thought that Morrison had lied to him in the past few months, Macron said, “I don’t think” he lied. “I know” he did, Macron told reporters after a news conference at the G-20 summit in Rome.

…“Now you have 18 months until a result. Good luck,” Macron concluded, referring to a timeline in the new deal for Australia to show it can safely manage nuclear-powered technology.

I personally support the case for nuclear subs if it can be made to work within a workable timeframe.

But I sympathise with Mr Macron. All Australians know the feeling of being gaslighted by the disordered unrapist, uncarbon, unfire, unCOVID, unvaccine, unfit, unbelievable Scott Morrison.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.