Dear Joe (Loudmouth),

Dear oh dear...

Your comments are rather sweeping and you're making
all sorts of summations but I guess judging from
many of the posts here - you're not alone. Still,
things do need clarification:

1) The PM's dependence on Mr Thomson's vote? Really?
I believe that Mr Thomson is no longer a member of the
Labor Party - but is now an "Independent." Can anyone
really predict ahead of time, how the man will vote.

2) As for the PM "overlooking" any of the charges against
Mr Thomson? I believe that she's leaving that matter to
the Courts and to due process. Which is afterall the right
of all Australian citizens, even Members of Parliament.

3) The Slipper case is an interesting one isn't it?
A Judge threw it out of court.

A real hero?
I take it you mean the judge.

Dear, sweet, innocent, good-hearted Lexi,

1) Thompson is never going to NOT vote for the Labor Party - don't you think they would have so much dirt on him that he would be drowned in it if he stepped out of line, 'independent' or not ?

2) Yes, you're right, but we'll see, won't we ?

3) Ah, the feminist selective memory - does the mention of Slipper and mussels ring any sort of bell ? That's what Gillard defended, Slipper's comments about stinking wrinkly mussels, as that evil b@stard Abbott looked at his watch - what a total misogynist !

Real heroes ! Real feminists !

You're just too forgiving, Lexi :)

Love,

Joe

I am really amazed at Poirot & Lexi;
Lexi is totally blinded if she thinks Thompson is not still a Labour
Party member. He is just not on the membership file.
Lexi are you really that stupid that you think such a statement would
hold water ?
They paid for his vote by paying his legal fees when he had to abandon
a defamation action against Fairfax.
They had to pay it or he would have been bankrupt and a bankrupt cannot
sit in parliament.
But I bet you knew all that anyway, so why try to shove that nonsense
down our throat ?

Poirot, you are being nearly as dopey as Lexi;
>If the Labor "lost" then so did the Coalition.

No, the coalition had two more votes than Labour.
The two independents and the greens were three.
But like Lexi I think you know all that anyway, so are you both Trolling
or hoping to fool one or two more ?

Loud Mouth,

http://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/single/2012/2012fca1411

Read it and weep : )

(Of course, any finding that Brough collaborated with the miniature Trojan Horse, Ashby, is fine with Tony - funny that:)

Bazz,

Lexi and I are entitled to our opinion.

And let's not get technical. If it had have been the other way around and the Coalition had just fallen over the line, I'll bet you wouldn't have quibbled.

Hey Lexi,

I don't know about you, but when Loudmouth dons his smarmy sarcastic Lothario persona - I find it an a kind of ultra turn-off.

Here is the bloke criticising Slipper's crap while enacting his own kind of "sweetie-lovey" garbage. He uses it on me when he's attempting to provoke me.

I notice he doesn't pull the same stunt with the blokes around here - and for that matter there are no other blokes around here who pull a sexist stunt to provoke the women.

That honour rests with Joe "Loudmouth" Lane - the one who's always pointing out others' sexist foibles.

Sad really......

Ad hominem, Poirot - can we get back to the issues ?

Actually, I do feel that way towards Lexi - she does always seem to see the good side in people, and I honestly do think of her as sweet and innocent, if occasionally of the mark. I'm sorry if that sounds sexist in some way but there you go.

Gillard defended Slipper, not because he is some sort of crypto-feminist, in spite of his vile remarks about mussels, but because she needed his vote. As crude and non-feminist as that.

It used to be called opportunism.

I'll leave it up to you, and whatever conscience you may still have, to decide whether or not Slipper is a die-hard misogynist. I think he is. So sue me.

Joe