So said Malcolm Turnbull during a National Press Club savaging of Scott Morrison a few weeks ago, as he implored the PM to attend the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.James Brickwood
These meetings are a Kabuki dance. They’re as much about managing the internal politics of the Coalition as they are about whether or when Australia will make the pledge that needs to be made at Glasgow.What’s also worth noting is how Morrison, the arch-pragmatist, has arrived at this point. And, famously, on February 8, 2017 he brought a lump of coal into the chamber and waved it around wantonly at the opposition and taunted Bill Shorten’s opposition.
So the door was open to the coming transformation – as long as, to use the more recent phrase, it was driven by “technology, not taxes”. The election of Joe Biden, the ambition of Boris Johnson, the EU’s plans for carbon tariffs on imports, major trading partners like Japan shifting away from coal – this has all played a part.
jamesmassola Turnbull is a loser! Politically spent force
jamesmassola ‘Pragmatist’! I’m thinking more of the phrase ‘kicking and screaming’😂
jamesmassola Morrison isn't pragmatic. Pragmatism is about judging things on the merits of their practical application. He doesn't do that. He is ignoring objective evidence. Morrison is a self interested 🐂💩 artist. That is different. auspol
jamesmassola This is utter nonsense. Every decision by Scott Morrison & his Govt supports coal & gas not renewables nor for that matter ClimateAction. auspol COP26Glasgow
jamesmassola History is brutal murders of cultures & traditions.Then laws were made, so WE are now put in a particular predicament of how to rid these lolly gobblers that created sovereigns & laws in cold blood.Why does no one ever speak of that?The system of evil we are obliged to live 🧐
jamesmassola ScottMorrisonMP is only going because he was shamed into it, he has no plan to deliver and it is embarrassing that Australia is lagging behind, dragging it's feet - Scott Morrison and Barnaby Joyce are the worst Political Leaders in Australian Politics!!
jamesmassola Hey Massola, you quoted that Smirko is an “arch-pragmatist”. I fell off my chair 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Give us a spell. The guy can’t organize a root in a brothel🙄
jamesmassola Jacinda Ardern is not turning up.
jamesmassola He'll do something shifty, you can bet on it
jamesmassola This bloke fought his way to the front of the line to get the number 1 ticket in Australia to lead the country But when it comes time to show up he has to be dragged kicking & screaming, bushfires, covid, vaccines, climate change, ICAC, Porter, Brittany Higgins and on and on
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