Lol!...SM...

Even you, the great apologist for anything right-wing, can't deny that you'd have to be disappointed with the rolling debacle that's been an LNP govt since 2014.

Debt way up, spending up, wages growth down, unemployment up...the same dysfunctional leadership rubbish as occurred under Rudd/Gillard - and even the great saviour, Mal the Magnificent, hasn't managed to live up to his reputation.

One disaster after another - and it continues.

Hi Poirot,

Sorry, I don't understand:

"How is the above post for a "Fact Check"?"

Do you mean that it would have been impossible to check out Duncan's sad story of oppression and unfairness ? Well, someone seems to have done that pretty quickly. Those accursed News Limited journalists !

Yes, I agree with you that we are witnessing something like " .... the same dysfunctional leadership rubbish as occurred under Rudd/Gillard.... " I hope it will be a long, long time before we have to put up with that again. Fat chance.

Back to Duncan: Is it possible to fact-check what happened to Duncan's sixty grand ? Will it be treated by the ATO as something like a X-Lotto win, i.e. no tax ? In which case, poor Duncan wouldn't get a tax cut, not even on sixty grand. Poor oppressed Duncan, staunch friend of the Opportunist Left !

Or will poor Duncan have to actually pay tax ? If so, let's look on the bright side, that now he might get a tax cut AND start paying family maintenance. There might even be a bit left over from his visits to the TAB to buy the kids an ice-cream - no need for extravagance, just the one between them all - win-win !

I'm sure that you would agree. Lucky I'm not at Murdoch Uni, otherwise I might get fined $ 50 for mild sarcasm.

Snark-snark :)

Joe

Loudmouth,

Lol!...you do appear to have quite a fixation on Duncan.

Hope you get over it soon, mate!

Hi Poirot,

A fixation ? Yes, it's a bit like having doggy-poo on your shoe, embedded in the ridges and grooves, something you don't want to be treading anywhere. You're 'fixated' on how the hell to get rid of it.

Plus, as someone who did it fairly tough as a kid, like you, but who like you, always made an effort to rise above it (mainly out of the sheer terror of maybe not ever being able to), I don't have anything much but contempt for someone who hasn't tried, but has thrown himself endlessly on the good mercies of the world to get by with as little effort as possible. And, it seems, on the good mercies of the Opportunist Left, as long as they have a use for him.

Christ, Poirot, I'm not a gambling man but at least I know you don't pick losers like this one.

Why does the OppLeft do that ? Perhaps because very few of them are, or have ever been, working class, but are, and ever will be, fairly comfortable middle-class, well-educated, professionals, Gramscians, who know that their rightful place in the world, as pure-of-heart and extremely well-educated people, professionals, the most advanced intelligentsia known to mankind, is to rule it. And to smash down whatever gets in the way, and from the inside if necessary.

So the OppLeft get conned again and again, confusing lumpen for genuine workers, dip-sticks like Duncan for real battlers. Come to think of it, that's how it's usually been on the OppLeft, they've always been soft touches for a good sob-story.

Cheers,

Joe

Or perhaps "obsession" would be a better word...

Or in your case, dearie, 'ad hominem'.

Cop it sweet, Poirot. Your lot blew this one. Move on. There'll be better times.

Joe