Senator Keogan said that she would “stand up and object to this person” during the meeting, and planned to “remove herself from the chamber while they speak.”
Aside from offering generational change on the left, Cairns offers something else that nobody else can: Purity.
It was Saul Alinsky, I think, who wrote in the book “rules for radicals” that the enemy should always be accused first of that which you are considering yourself.
Most politicians, at this stage, are just hoping that someone else is in power when it does come.
In the Pandemic, we were precisely as well off, in democratic terms, as Stalin’s Russia.
Up until Monday, I’d have said Nationalists had a pretty strong argument to make on that front.
Just because something can be defended, that does not make it a good or a sharp political idea
This policy should have never been adopted, and it should be abandoned.
Having financial interests – once they are disclosed – is not corruption. But it is also not irrelevant.
This particular issue is not going away.
It’s an interesting conundrum, and one wonders whether the Soc Dems have really thought it through.
They genuinely believe your mind works in a way where you hate migrants, right up to the moment you see one pick up a broom.