Slob Morrison: Albo too thin

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I’m always up for a good body shape shaming contest. I lose every time.

But I don’t expect it from the bloke running Australia. No doubt the focus groups have told him that a fat versus thin culture war will recruit a few more drongos to his thinning base.

Yes, the future of Australia has come down to this:

Scott Morrison says Anthony Albanese’s drastic weight loss and restyled image is proof he doesn’t know who he is.

Mr Albanese has shed 18kg since becoming Opposition leader and created headlines with his stylish apparel in a recent photo shoot for Women’s Weekly.

The Prime Minister is now attempting to turn his opponent’s incredible transformation into a campaign issue.

“I’m not pretending to be anyone else. I’m still wearing the same sunglasses. Sadly, the same suits. I weigh about the same size and I don’t mind a bit of Italian cuisine … I’m not pretending to be anyone else,” Mr Morrison told Sky’s Paul Murray Live.

“And when you’re Prime Minister, you can’t pretend to be anyone else. You’ve got to know who you are, because if you don’t know who you are, then how are other people going to know?”

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Amusingly, Slob Morrison pulled exactly the same weight loss trick approaching the 2019 election:

  • Prime Minister Scott Morrison has visibly lost a lot of weight in just three weeks since the start of October
  • Liberal leader told Sunrise personality David Koch he still enjoyed a beer as part of his slimmer appearance
  • He had a noticeable belly when he replaced Malcolm Turnbull in late August and met Indonesian President
  • ScoMo, as he is also known, had a wide girth when he appeared at the Bathurst 1000 V8 race on October 7
  • Australia’s leading dietitians have hailed his ‘dramatic’ change but warned him to be wary of the Atkins diet

Which points to the real problem.

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It’s not that Albo nor Australians don’t know who he is, it is that we know exactly who Slob Morrison is: a jiggling cavalcade of corruption, lying, sleaze cult, “psychopathy” without a single good idea in his head for our kid’s future:

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.