Incompetents surrounded by incompetent people leads to incompetent government.

She must be spewing.

As if she isn't doing a great job of burying herself, along comes yet another fool to giv her a push.

Gee, I find it hard to feel sorry for her.

Belly,

I feel sorry for you. Your party has left any shred of credibility behind. Labor is now synonymous with corruption and incompetence.

I suspect we'll be hearing a few things about Liberal MP Peter Slipper and his indiscretions over the following days. Some journos have been submitting FOI requests over his very unusual travel arrangements and this hasn't gone unnoticed by the ALP.

He's had a long list of previous offences and isn't called "Slippery Pete" for nothing.

Tit-for-tat.

Fact
As an officer of a trade union at that time he is being investigated by the body with the power to do so, indeed the duty.
Fair work Australia.
It has power to act here and an obligation.
It can bring court action against him or it can hand its evidence to state police.
At the end of its investigations we will know what action is to be take.
Question for my country.
Look at the hate, lies, blindness, generated here and yesterday out side our federal Parliament.
Consider this, Labor will be removed in the next election.
And replaced by?
How many of us expect this country to recover soon from the blindness such as seen yesterday, and calling for this man to be convicted before his trial if any?

Miss use of travel expenses in one thing, but seriously, paying for hookers with government credit cards is hardly in the same category.

Norms shop lifting for that matter.

In any case, the real issue here is whether or not he misused government funds to avaoid bankruptcy.

Huge difference.

Belly
As for democracy, that was displayed in the last election as the swing away from labor was huge.

It's just that mandam PM went to extraordinary lengths to gain support, even to the point of agreeing to unworkable legislation changes with a squeaky wheel,, something she no doubt regtets now.

In fact, it not for the lies, failures and broken promises she has made, I think she would can this deal, but what little is left of her credibility would be gone.

I think you may see democracy come next election. Greens and independents may well be dead in the water.

Labor will once again be a spent force.

It's just a putty they make such a mess of things as the fix just becomes harder as their debt rises.

BTW. How are they going with their return to surplus promise?

I guess if they get punted early that's one promise the won't have to keep.

With further revelations that Thomson's phone was used for work calls just prior and just after calling the brothel, and making the credit card payment, it has gone far beyond reasonable doubt that Thomson deliberately made the payment and his claims are bald faced lies.

Now it would appear that the accountants are not prepared to sign off the books for 2007/8 when Thomson was in charge. While not specifying the reasons, the most common reason is that of cooked books.

The latest Newspoll shows labor back at the all time low, and Juliar plumbing new lows. I personally don't see her making it past Xmas, let alone to 2013.

The question is whether Juliar will have the integrity to stop covering up for Thomson.