Utopia
The Chain and Ball baseness of Politics.
Now, please don’t run away (yet), just a few words about the recent drama leading to a change of our Prime Minister. Her name is Julia Gillard. We had for the first time a PM that was and still is a female, but not anymore our country’s leader. Six years ago she was lauded as a future Prime Minister.
We had Kevin Rudd for three years first, after which fate decided a time was right for a female prime minister. We were so happy to get a change from an 11 year long stifling conservative government doing its best to keep us within the set of boundaries that ensured a solid maintenance of the status quo and cups-o-tea.
Of course, some now say, “The conservative government between 1996 and 2007 were our best years.” Sorry, but I am vague what the achievements during those years were. Was it the involvement of Australia in the Iraqi war or keeping refugees away from our shores? Was it the fondness of the PM John Howard in his love of a foreign Queen and cricket while wearing raglan sleeved pullovers…?
I remember his way of assuaging latent or not so latent xenophobia with his rant about how ‘we will decide who comes to this country and the method whereby they come’ followed up with ‘the children overboard’ lie. The slogans were received like honky-tonk to the ears of the red necks. “Let the boat people drown, they deserve it,” was his real message. “Teach them a lesson,” while rocking back authoritatively on his immoral heels. He knew it all.
As his tenure unfolded over the years, history, as it always does, spewed him out with his unpopularity resulting in only the second time around of a PM losing his own seat. Can you imagine? Yes I can. Nothing lowers everything to a level of baseness than politics.
My idea of a Utopia would be no politics and no Government. Go back to yeomen, carpenters and roof thatchers, jesters and clowns deciding issues with a fair exchange of goods for labour, a bartering for books on papyrus, wheel barrows or axes and with families around the communal fire or water-well. Poetry reading on Friday conversationally aided by the lubricant of an honest ale and strong coffee with snacks of calamari soaked in butter milk with some pepper.
There will be discourse on the weeks’ comings with fireworks and building giant slippery dips contemplation with dancing and hop scotching by others. Hurts would be heeled and soothed made better with hugs and kisses. Almonds, char-grilled and coated with chocolate would be currency and goats would give us cheese and much joyful bleating. Barking dogs and purring cats bouncing at the feet of leaping children, skipping using flaxen ropes and slapping rounded twiggy hoops round and around.
Music and singing for the just and last alive lingering up to a heaven still imagined during the final moment of a joyful departure. Incense burning to a loving memory never to fade or forgotten by kins and friends. Fresh daisies with five leaf clover on our dear beloved, so still now, yet buried below warm embracing sands.
That’s a Utopia that may one day find itself on the shores of our salt encrusted shores, smooth worn by pounding waves on rocks.
It is so much better than the present chain and ball politics.
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Has everyone else gone on a weekend holiday or lost their internet connections. Wonder how Shoe is getting on with her multi troubles with ‘puter stuff.
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No, I haven’t lost internet but it is eerily quiet everywhere. Just reflecting on how NSW seems to be headed for an ugly ‘gaming’ venue led by Packer. It is supposed to be good for tourism and will bring Sydney in line with the rest of the world.
There is Rudd trying to clean up NSW ALP and up come the Libs with Farrell approving a monstrous building and calling it ‘gaming’ and a bonanza for Sydney. I would say ‘fuck off’ with your gaming and high rollers, selling your soul for sous and silver.
What an ugly world we are leaving to our kids and where is Utopia? Perhaps Milo has an answer!
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This might be worth a look
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Very sad reminder of the horrors inflicted on lovely Julia.
You know those Lib nuts who say lots of very awful things were said about John Howard. Is there a video collection of that – because that would be fascinating. Don’t think there is any comparison of course.
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And who can ever forget windbag joe claiming “she called me fat”, they meat head just didn’t get it. I’d doubt that a video of Howard would exist.
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Exactly – ‘she called me fat’. Gee I wish Julia would have wished that people just called her ‘thin’, ‘fat’. What always gives me the shits is the pathetic responses we get from Libs all the time. Start off sentences with ‘after all’, ‘everyone knows’. Mirabella got a lot of great flak on the comments in the Border. She is not liking it of course. But she replies about how nasty Windsor is and how he betrayed his electorate. I said, well basically what does that matter, he is not running in Indi. Then we had Barnaby weighing in here too. Sparked the locals up.
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It was nice seeing Sophie slipping in her own muck the other night. I don’t think she gets how vile she appears to people generally. I think its sad the people of New England will be lumped with barking barnie after the election. Let’s just hope the good people of Indi do the right thing an purge Sophie.
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Depends on how many usually Lib voters actually put their thinking hats on. I know for a fact that a good number of her supporters are in fact Libs – the old kind. It is a fairly large electorate taking in towns along the Murray from Corryong to past Corowa and down to Marysville. I do believe she will get a lot of Labor voters. It is going to be interesting following the tally and getting the votes polling booth by polling booth.
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That seems to be half of Victoria, that’s a big area for an independent to cover without the machine of a party. Let’s hope the do put their thinking hats on and realise what a substandard member they have. Bit like Jules in Queensland, his Liberal’s about as sharp as a bowling ball.
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It is but it does cover all the snow field and a chunk of land not exactly overpopulated. Includes Wangaratta and Benalla – stuff basically east of the Hume Highway. And of course all the north east area which I wrote about not too long ago. Yackandandah is behind Cathy – lot of gays there who think. Cathy is not gay but she is unmarried and I don’t think has a bloke. She is a farmer and a bit of an academic and a rural advisor/consultant. She is getting around a lot – giving it the best she’s got. Money donated so far is getting close to $30,000. They are having workshops galore – people already made badges and working on the T shirts. A chap from Wangaratta is her campaign manager and he seems quite intelligent as well as very committed to the cause. If Cathy succeeds the celebrations will equal the ousting of Howard from his own seat. It will be a ripper and for the first time Indi will be in the seats to watch on election night.
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Good on ya ,Cathy, get rid of that Bella Mira forever…
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Yews, Mirabella’s jaws were in overtime on Q&A. I am surprised Abbott is letting her free to spout all that silly gibberish. Those jaws seem made for collecting latex around a rubber tree plantation in Malaysia.
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And local letters to the editor are defending Mirabella but continuing to bag out Windsor. It is so very pathetic.
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Don’t worry. Gillard will be held in high esteem by history. Howard is just a letter at the bottom of a drawer on the way to Vinnies.
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Ahhhhh……… hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
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Reminds me of Tom Jones – that naughty movie of the late 60s. Remember the scene eating the crayfish well.
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