Voters give PM David Cameron “the big finger”

“Stupid plebs.”

Indeed……………….seems you just cant trust them with Referendums……………or even perhaps Plebescites*

LOL

* from Latin plebiscitum, from plebs, pleb- ‘the common people’ + scitum ‘decree’ (from sciscere ‘vote for’). The sense ‘direct vote of the whole electorate’ dates from the mid 19th century.
Roman History a law enacted by the plebeians’ assembly.

Cameron’s resigned. He’ll be caretaker until a new PM is chosen. FTSE 100 down around 6.5%.

How come when the world gets spooked share prices drop? Why can’t housing prices drop instead? I don’t think the GFC affected housing prices at all.

Athens Exchange

Piraeus Bank, National Bank and Alpha Bank all down 26 to 29%

Go You Bears ……………!

“You sound surprised, wally???”

Not at all.

One of the EU’s financial powerhouses has hit the eject button which leave just Germany and to a lesser extent France to do the bailing on a sinking ship.

And I’m not so sure Scotland would go indi now just to perhaps seek its own EU entry if the whole EU experiment is now under threat.

Scotland the Brave ?………………..Maybe not

Boris Johnson is my pick. They need someone who wants to own this and who really believes in it

I happened to be speaking to a Scottish lass today. She was devastated.

History is interesting. It was news to me but Scotland was allied with France against England for centuries. The Union was a miracle. When England play Scotland in Rugby they play Flower of Scotland. God save the Queens gets drowned out with expletives

If the Scots want Europe, let them have it. But i doubt Europe will pay for the welfare the Scots want

to implement a rule that if the Remain or Leave vote is less than 60% based on a turnout less than 75%, there should be another referendum.”

I tend to agree with that. When you are going to change the status quo a large number in favor is preferable.

So English people want to leave the EU.

Scotland will leave England to it’s self imposed isolation

Ol’ Sancty tweets:

Yea well, it’s not like he’d be out snorkling the reef anymore, is he. 😉

So, the poms have left. Who cares?

Poms doing what they have always done, whinging.

Yesterday, it was “woe is us, it’s all the EU’s fault.”

Today it’s, “woe is us, it’s all the EU’s fault.”

Some things never change, you know, like judith sloane making shit up.

http://catallaxyfiles.com/2016/06/24/still-counting/#comment-2067404

One week to go, and my work has just gone into overdrive, so I’m going to miss all the ‘fun’

Behave yourselves peeps!

Scotland has shown itself to be more outward looking than England

As nil has alluded to above yomm, they have for centuries. Although, in truth, back then, it was more for their own survival than any idealistic yearning.

OUCH

They will do well out of remaining in the EU

Lets say the Scots declare their Independence and leave Britain and then apply for EU membership. Would the EU accept them? Most probably not. Then what would the Scots do?

,,former Liberal leader John Hewson addressed hundreds of people protesting in the Sydney suburb of Double Bay – minutes from Malcolm Turnbull`s harbourside mansion – calling on the prime minister to take stronger action on climate change.

Yeah lets abolished coal fired power stations and run the country on windmills and tidal power.

Yes the polls are confusing. For the first time in my life i will not be putting my local Liberal member No 1. This person will go second so will get my preference. But this person was one of the 53.

In the Senate i will put Labor and Greens towards the bottom but vote for Conservative parties egALA. as my first preferences

“The sun came up this morning and might even do so tomorrow.”

Yeah as some have pointed out there was no plague of frogs or mass slayings of all newborns.

QBE Insurance looking pretty cheap around $10.24

They won’t privatize medicare 😂

Everything they have said and done points to this exactly as Labor have claimed

I see snacty has pulled his head our of the sand simply so he can plunge it back in further than it ever was

Unsurprisement

Hello James.

Did you hear that lots of left types thought Tim Flannery’s “I’ve seen the Barrier Reef with my own eyes” research was widely applauded.

These days it seems the “I’ve seen it with my own eyes” method of research is quite acceptable to Tom R and his mates.

Tim Flannery pops wh to the Barrier Reef with a camera was, goes diving and declares that it’s just about dead

He saw this with his own eyes, he said

James makes a point based on his own observations and that wasn’t acceptable to you

I recall that James made a comment that he’d been diving on various parts of the reef. He passed on his observation and was ridiculed.

Tim Flannery says – I’ve seen it with my own eyes – and he’s credible

Why it’s time to bring on a hung parliament:

What about the 8,469 children Rudd/Gillard locked up? That article confirms to me that voting Labor is a religion. And a false one at that

(I must admit, I, too, was surprised by the instant Flannery-inspired controversy; especially as it seemed to involve a relatively simple exercise in distinguishing: ‘I recall seeing <1% of the Reef with mine own eyes, therefore 100% of the reef seemed/seems/was/is as good as rose-tinted-gold, per that ad hoc sampling method and its protocols, if any’ vis-a-vis ‘–>100% of the Reef, and reefs, have been sampled, per the GBRMA aerial survey and its protocols, and this <1% of Reef is exemplary of the kind of good-as-white-gold state in which c.22% overall of the Reef, and its reefs, are found to be in; less, or more, or much, much more, depending on latitude, and GBRMA Reef trisectioning'; but, now, apparently, perhaps, it's slightly more complex than I'd initially been led to believe.)

How amusing…………………..

Seems the English Twitterati didn’t even bother to vote………………

I see Tony Windsor is in the news about something he may have done when he was at school. I do not like Windsor but bringing up things so long ago is a low act. Beats me why anybody goes into politics

“Hint, Abstain”

OK so they abstained. Which means they have even less of a right to argue against the vote

Labor Party hero Eddie Obeid found guilty of Misconduct in Public Office.

What i do not understand is why some mud does not stick to Bob Carr? He appointed Obeid

Bjelke Peterson had some corrupt Ministers and he paid for it.

“ASX down 0.6% today”

QBE dipped below $10 briefly…………………I couldn’t resist………just a few

Civil War anyone………………………?

Geoffrey Robertson QC :

“MPs are entitled to vote against it and are bound to vote against it, if they think it’s in Britain’s best interest. It’s not over yet,”

“MPs will have to do their duty to vote according to conscience and vote for what’s best for Britain. It’s a matter for their consciences. They have got to behave courageously and conscientiously.”

“Democracy in Britain doesn’t mean majority rule… it’s the representatives of the people, not the people themselves, who vote for them.”

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/it-s-not-over-yet-top-legal-expert-says-brexit-vote-has-no-force-whatsoever-and-mps-will-try-to-a3282071.html

Yeah!

All those katilk rubber barrons that imposed katilikism on the poor people of island

So are the accounts of Windsor’s bullying less worthy of reporting than Abbott’s wall punching?

his weirdness was there for all to see, it couldn’t be hidden, he was shown to be totally unfit and incompetent for the job.

Anything that drives you lefties nuts must be OK. Abbott had his problems but he was a decent man. Turnbull is the first person to lead the Coalition in my lifetime who loves himself more than the country so i will not be voting Liberal No 1 for the first time.

Abbott did not lock up 8,469 children. The ALP/Greens did. That tells me all i need to know what is in the heart of a leftie.

Now I know why Green Groups are so pro public transport.

It kind of fits in with their personal hygeine levels……………..

http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/the-disgusting-truth-about-germs-on-public-transport-20160627-gpsw2x.html

That’s interesting. Malcolm has made a surprise visit to the notionally Labor seat of Barton which is currently held by the LNP but was expected to go back to the ALP.

Barton covers the area just south of Sydney Airport (the Botany Bay area) and includes some affluent and lower middle class areas. Main ethnicities are Greek, Italian, Chinese.

The ALP are running a “parachuted” by Head Office former pretty ordinary performing ALP minister ( in the former corrupt state ALP government) against the LNP member.

Perhaps some internal polling turned up a pleasant surprise for the LNP

“Over to Commentary…. So, basically he is moving from a blog with neoconservative leanings; to a full on neocon blog. Nice.”

Remember I said the if the ALP fucks Sydney around on the WestConnex Motorway they will lose the election in Western Sydney.

Well this has absolutely blown up Talkback Radio today and is also on FM Radio……..

“LABOR is stalling the start of construction on the WestConnex road project by refusing to allow the federal government to sign final ­approval because of the election caretaker convention.

The delaying tactic is costing $750,000 a day in contract penalties for the NSW government, with the total payments on the shovel-ready job already at $20 million thanks to the ALP’s stalling.

The federal Department of Environment recommended on May 31 that final approval be given for the NSW government to start work on the $15 billion Western Sydney ­motorway. WestConnex is considered the state’s most crucial road ­infrastructure project and would cut Western Sydney commuter travel times by up to half an hour.

However, Labor has been caught using the caretaker provisions of the election campaign to stall its start.

Correspondence obtained by The Daily Telegraph shows federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt wrote to Mr Shorten’s shadow environment minister Mark Butler on May 31 seeking his endorsement for ­immediate sign-off on final approval………”

Mr Butler wrote back two weeks later claiming he wouldn’t allow it go ahead in caretaker mode because it would commit an incoming government to the project ”

So another $20M down the toilet just to save Anthony Albanese in the inner city

Engineers always want things to be over engineered. Just recall how the ALP was critical of the ‘gold plated’ power and electrical distribution network.

‘Over engineered’ was the criticism. Engineers are inclined to over engineer things and that’s why they don’t have final sign off on projects, there is always review for cost effectiveness.

Engineers understand engineering but they’re not At interested in cost efficiency

NBN is the contemporary version of the gold plating the ALP was so critical of.

“… and quite honestly I don’t GAFF either way …”

Seems TB is quite OK with violence and abuse against children.

Maybe TB should have been a Catlick Priest……………….?

Now this is highly illustrative of what the EU really is

Let’s talk about all that hot air around Carbon Dioxide………………….

“It is perhaps the most outlandish of the European Union’s excesses; a £130 million travelling circus that once a month sees the European Parliament decamp from Belgium to France.

Over the course of the weekend, some 2,500 plastic trunks will be loaded on to five lorries and driven almost 300 miles from Brussels to Strasbourg.

On Monday, about 1,000 politicians, officials and translators will then make the same journey on two specially chartered trains hired at taxpayers’ expense.

A few thousand more will go to Strasbourg by other means, as the European Parliament switches from Brussels, its permanent base, to its “official” home in northern France.

For the first time, the full detail of this “madness”, contained in official European documents, can be disclosed today by The Telegraph – and the price to taxpayers is astonishing. …………….”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/10565686/The-farce-of-the-EU-travelling-circus.html

“There’s more chance of finding rocking horse (poo) in the corridors of the NBN than finding an engineer who supports a multi-technology mix over copper,” the insider said

If i understand the English language that sentence means they prefer copper over MTM.

To the question of do people want FTTP, the answer is yes. But if they were told it would cost $500/month what would the answer be?

If people were asked would they like a Rolls Royce what would the answer be?

“You really are an abusive prick, wally!”

LOL…………….you only just noticed………hehehehehehehehehe……!

From your Link Splatter

“………..This losing side, sometimes known as the “elite,” is the coalition of the “leaders,” the academics, the journalists, the crony capitalists, and the government functionaries who believe that they and others like them are the experts and they should run the world with no accountability, and issue the orders to the productive people who pay the bills.

Most of the members of this coalition currently live off some kind of government salary or grant or handout, and the rest of them expect to do so at some point. Honestly, are these people you want to be aligned with? Not me! And I guess I was not the only one………..””

So there we have it –

1.Windsor is a private school bully, who apparently, as a 17 year old used a knife on 11year olds.
2. Over engineering infrastructure is fine, unless it is the ‘gold plated’ power grid

All this attention from the msm over windsor and something he may or may not have done years ago as a minor.

But no interest at all over the libs paying for their re-election via Parakeelia?

Looks like it’s going to be close Saturday night. Either way, whoever wins, is on for some tough times I think.

Well I was only quoting (your) Julia Gillard in referring to the unnecessary and expensive “gold plated” infrastructure.

Although it must have seemed like a good idea to the engineers at the time. It just wasn’t regarded as cost effective by a career politician/labour lawyer.

That happened because public sector engineers enjoyed engineering power infrastructure beyond the point of being cost effective.

That’s what happens in when engineers run public sector infrastructure programs.

“gold plating” infrastructure is not the same as over engineering something yomm, it’s a simple, greedy grab for cash.

Of course, I’d have thought you’d understand that.

Which is why I held your comment (which wasn’t Gillards) as a prime example of prime stoopid.

‘#SafetyPin campaign shows solidarity with immigrants and EU citizens against rise of hate crime: A Twitter user is rallying for Britons to wear a silver pin on their person in support of the victims of post-referendum hate crimes.

‘Twitter user @Cheeahs has suggested that people simply wear an empty safety pin on their breast as a badge to symbolise solidarity against racism – and to let any potential victims know that the wearer is friendly face.’

‘FTSE 100 erases post-Brexit losses as buying bonanza fuels rebound

‘A buying bonanza fuelled the FTSE 100’s remarkable rebound, erasing all of its post-Brexit losses in just two days.

‘London’s benchmark index enjoyed its best day in almost five years, soaring 219.67 points, or 3.58pc, to a two-month high of 6,360.06.

‘The rebound follows an 8.7pc plunge in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote. The blue chip index now trading up 0.5pc since the referendum outcome was announced.’

“Let me see if I have got this right!”

To whoever you have quoted TB………………….

Well no you dont you Leftist fucking retard !

Unless the USA,Canada, Norway, Switzerland, South America, all of Asia, all of Africa, Australia, New Zealand et al also

1. Contribute to the EU budget,

2. Accept free movement of people from Europe and,

3. Be bound by EU regulations.

But they dont ……………do they ?……………….you fucking dickhead

“I suspect it is working class people who wanted to leave”

Not quite right NoS……

I suspect it is the majority of those who bothered to actually vote who wanted to leave

“Peta Credlin always made a nice cup of tea during hung parliament.”

Imagine if Abbott had said that

I suspect it is the majority of those who bothered to actually vote who wanted to leave

Not a good answer. I suspect a lot of working class people could see their jobs being taken by Eastern Europeans who wanted to leave. I think the Tories wanted to stay. Cameron certainly did.

My bet is the UK wont implode (devaluation of the GBP helps immensely) but Brussels will

Talkback radio in Melbourne has gone into meltdown with CFA volunteers ringing to express their sadness and upset at Chief Fire Officer Joe Buffone’s resignation this morning. This won’t help Labor’s chances on Saturday.

11 Countries Gearing Up to Strike Trade Deals With Britain:

‘While Brexit doom-mongers have been focussing on the challenges of keeping access to the EU’s single market (16% of global trade – less once we’re gone), they forget there is a world elsewhere.

‘Green shoots are already emerging, as other countries start to realise the possibilities of free trade deals with a newly-liberated Britain, less than a week after the referendum.’

Sportsbet is offering the following odds about “Sworn-In Government”: Coalition $1.08. Anyone brave enough to back Labor can avail themselves of $8.00! Or, if you fancy a Hung Parliament you can get $5. ($1.15 for No Hung Parliament.)

Come on TB. What’s your humour-meter telling you?

Another CFA Chief gone. But don’t worry Danny, it’s important to appease your union mates. Far more important than protecting the safety of Victoria.

Danny Andrews is a hack in the mould of Bill Shorten.

On Thursday morning Mr Buffone stepped down, saying: “I believe the agreement will tie the hands of those who are obliged by law to protect the safety of Victorians.”

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/cfa-crisis-chief-fire-officer-joe-buffone-quits-20160629-gpv46z.html#ixzz4D2GSUy00

“Its fine … the fat hasn’t started to sing yet … and knife edge polls have a way of suddenly falling over …”

Then $8 is a good price. The more you bet, the more you win!

(The more you bet, the more you win!

Probably. Especially, if they are the punters and you are setting up House?)

l think it is quite funny seeing `our` teabags being useful idiots for, Let me guess, Limited-News, and foaming over what school-kids did in the first half of `Last` century.

Agree. But this is hard to beat. Fairfax/David Marr trying to trash John Howard for what his father may or may not have done in 1927

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/the-secret-howard-plantations/2006/06/10/1149815326249.html

TB didn’t simply “suggest” teachers directed it – according to TB, it’s a fact –

Windsor’s alleged bullying was at a school when he was “directed” by teachers at that school …

(Or maybe just too clever by half.

Probably. Or not even a quarter as smart as those who might think it’s a good idea to continue to ignore the most basic tenets of due process, even as they continue to make factually incorrect, prejudicial, and likely libelous assertions all of their own, very loosely based on untested allegations, if they were even that, published by Sharri Markson in the popular(?) press, as some kind of ‘legal argument’, on a blog.)

Leigh Sales is making mice meat of Shorten and she hasn’t even tried to push him.

Once a hack, always a hack.

Me too TB, and I have no idea why she went so easy on Shorten, maybe she felt sorry for the prick

I just backed Labor at $8. So, on Saturday night, I can’t lose. If Labor wins, I win. If the Coalition wins, Australia wins.

Just watching Turnbull on Kitchen Cabinet. Apparently his grandson calls him Baba. And he uses a mouli. “Do you think I should wilt something green into this?”

*cringe*

“we can all sit back and watch them destroy the country”

You mean like Daniel Andrews is doing to Victoria? No thanks. At least Turnbull is not a union lackey.

(Oh, I knoo. Ain’t it awful whenever some civilian plebs organise to demand that their principle-of-subsidiarity rights be respected by an overpaid bureaucratic elite kitted out in shiny uniforms and big hats; still, it’s interesting to see who thinks that their position is or isn’t compromised beyond redemption when just vetoing a partial ground-up challenge to absolute top-down authority is become practically impossible.

Never mind, Malcolm will fix it; the professional firefighters on the ground are probably 30% overpaid, anyway; especially for cushie jobs, say, like responding to the Hazelwood Coal Mine fire, given that local volunteer bushfire veterans know the area best and naturally are best-equipped to take charge of the situation, no questions asked or consultations had.)

Geez. If you want some of the $8.00 youse had better hurry up.

“WoW! What a decision maker you are, ToSY …”

Yes. I can’t lose.

So Boris a advocate for Brexit now don’t want to be PM

He now looks like the dog that caught the car and doesn’t know what to do with it

We vote tomorrow with this govt delivering higher unemployment, a collapse in business investment, falling company profits & higher debt

Stephen Koukoulas really is shameless. Unemployment is unchanged and the budget deficits are unchanged.

But this is a man who says debt does not matter unless we have a Coalition govt

So who knows? Does the private system produce more bullies than the public? And it is generally accepted that the UK has a far more entrenched class system than Australia