Thank god we got a good deal with the fighter planes.....
Thank god we got a good deal with the fighter planes.....It will be all patched up in 6 months time, Albo will be in and will re instate the French sub deal, rinse, wash, repeat.
The good thing to come out of this IMO, is that no matter what relationship with another country, when it comes to money it overrides everything. I certainly hope Australia has a longer memory, than France obviously does, and Turnbull for that matter.
That will end up being another contract cancellation, the way it is going, we will probably end up just buying off the shelf from China.Thank god we got a good deal with the fighter planes.....
Tony Abott, once again showing an appalling lack of judgement, has suggested that the dork Smith needs to be "saved".And on it goes.
From ABC News
Tim Smith, a liberal from Victoria, has resigned from Cabinet after crashing his car thriugh a fence and being charged with drink driving after having been found to be over being over .05 after the crash.
This was the loudmouth who helped Mathew Guy undermine the previous Lib leader, and was elevated to shadow cabinet as Attorney general for his trouble.
It is a pity their brains were not as big as their egos, otherwise everyone would be better off.
Mick
Yes Mr Smith made a mistake, but its a bloody big one that can only occur if you are a complete idiot. It also says a lot about his so called 'friends" who let him drive home at 2.5 times over the limit.Tony Abbott will urge Liberal preselectors in drink-drive MP Tim Smith’s state seat of Kew not to allow a “spirit of petty censoriousness” to end the public life of one of the party’s “best Victorian talents”, as the 38-year-old considers defying his leader to recontest the next election.
Mr Smith is pulling out all stops to muster support from party elders and federal factional allies in a bid to save his career, despite Opposition Leader Matthew Guy publicly stating he does not want his close friend to contest the November 2022 election, ahead of nominations for preselection closing on November 12.
Liberal colleagues quipped that Mr Smith had been involved in “three car crashes”, after he gave a radio interview and held an hour-long press conference on Wednesday, during which he maintained he had only consumed “a few glasses of wine” on Saturday before getting into his Jaguar, clipping another vehicle, smashing into the side of a house and giving a blood-alcohol reading of 0.131 per cent.
SMH has had as many elitist digs as possible. mainstream journalism is trash these days.I see the media is still trying to get Australia to roll on its back and pizz on itself.
Macron or micron: Morrison will have to measure the cost of enraging France
The price of dumping the French submarine deal in favour of AUKUS was always going to be high. Scott Morrison will be left to ponder: was it worth it and did it need to be so high?www.smh.com.au
It sounds as though the Swiss have upset poor old Macron too, they bought U.S fighter planes and cancelled a French contract. Sounds as though Macron is on the nose with everyone, except the Australian media, who will side with anyone as long as it isn't Australia. ?Thank god we got a good deal with the fighter planes.....
Think it's more a case of the Aust media just jumping on the anti ScoMo bandwagon. The media loves reporting ScoMo upsetting foreign governmentsSounds as though Macron is on the nose with everyone, except the Australian media, who will side with anyone as long as it isn't Australia. ?
The media loves reporting ScoMo upsetting foreign governments
Does he actuallyOnly because he does it so well.
Does he actually
Macron is carrying on like a spoilt little kid over the sub's--but the reality is the French have consistently failed to deliver on key milestones on the sub contract and the French contractors have a long history of being problematic on this project. I could not give a **** what side of politics you support on this, but I think ScoMo has done the right thing to terminate this contract given they have been a very unreliable partner. The way I see it ScoMo is acting in our interests and if he upset the French in doing so well then so be it.
Who else has he upset...ok, you can trot our China. But it will come as no surprise to hear me say say has been a bully for a long time and about time we stood up to them. There is a conga line of countries that have upset China so ScoMo is in good company there.
So what other countries has ScoMo offended????
I think he was right to terminate the contract , but it was his side who ordered the wrong subs in the first place. He was in the Cabinet when the French deal was signed off, it should have been apparent that conventional subs were not going to cut it in 20 years, they should have been looking at other options in the meantime, like drones.
Releasing private texts without notice is indefensible , you just don't do that sort of thing and expect that other countries will continue to trust you. He could have threatened to release them unless he got an apology or justification by Macron of the 'liar' tag, but he went like a bull at a gate. No diplomatic savvy at all.
I don't care about China, you are correct that they are bullies, but they bully everyone so that one isn't ScoMo's fault.
As for offending other countries, what did Biden say about him regarding the sub deal ? "Badly handled". Morrison couldn't get a meeting with Biden at Glasgow even thought we are supposed to be their new best friend. Morrison is patently unfit to be dealing dealing with other countries he just talks first and thinks later.
As for Biden, lets not get started there but I'm happy to raise the issue of the way he managed the abrupt exit from Afghanistan. As you can tell I'm no expert on international diplomacy but I think it is fair to say the way Biden managed the withdrawal from Afghanistan as "badly handled". What's that saying...let he who is free of sin cast the first stone.
Agree...not an option to remain indefinitely...but to exit so abruptly like Biden did...irresponsible, stupid and in his own words, badly handled. Even Trump wasn't so stupid as to exit as abruptly as Biden did. Trump wanted out, but even he knew a phased exit over time was probably wise.I think it was not an option to remain in Afghanistan indefinitely. The only choice really was to hand the country back to the civilian government. It certainly went pear shaped, but blaming Biden for the cowardice of the Afghan national army is stretching things a bit imo.
Attached is a video on youtube from a speech by Joe Biden in 2008,Agree...not an option to remain indefinitely...but to exit so abruptly like Biden did...irresponsible, stupid and in his own words, badly handled. Even Trump wasn't so stupid as to exit as abruptly as Biden did. Trump wanted out, but even he knew a phased exit over time was probably wise.
Unbelievable....the stench of hypocrisy is unbearableAttached is a video on youtube from a speech by Joe Biden in 2008,
In defending not gertting out of Afghanistan. He says that it would take a year at least to get out of Afghanistan. He then says you could get out in a few months, but you would have to leave all the infrastructure and weapons behind. And then it would be used against "us", meaning the American people.
So in 2021 he does just that and leaves behind the weapons and infrastructure, as well as few people who worked for the Americans.
With so much media storage around now, just about anything you say will come back and bite you on the ar$e in the future.
The bloke is either poorly advised or just plain senile, or a bit of both.
Mick
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