I think Barnaby Joyce being reinstated as Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the National Party says a lot about where politics sits at the present moment.
Adding insult to injury was the fact that only hours before the leadership spill, he denied contending or even wanting the job. What a sham.
It is no secret that in most cases, I am on the Liberal/National side of politics, but once again I get disappointed with both sides. It doesn’t really matter whether it’s left or right.
How can we believe any of them? Even more questionable to me is how dare some of these folk actually think they are a class above their constituents, when in fact they are allegedly working for us, the taxpayers? What a joke.
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Of course we all get the press statements about what they have done for their particular area, they mail out flyers patting themselves on the back and making absolutely certain we don’t happen to miss what they reckon they have achieved.
This latest affair (pardon the pun) seems to have been perpetrated by Queensland members of the Nationals, which scares me a bit as apparently the reasoning was that an agitating politician is not such a bad thing.
I guess when you look at the Katter clan it has worked well for them, so maybe Barnaby is on the right track for political longevity, which in my view is many politicians’ only strategy: ‘How long can I stay in power and what do I have to do, who do I have to suck up to and who do I have to burn to keep my seat?’
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In one of the press feeds on the subject, a trucker from the Queensland bush compared him to Donald Trump and that was supposed to be a compliment.
I remember back in the Joh days when I was travelling around Australia, the southerners used to hammer me about him and the daylight savings faded curtains and confused cows thing, but I defended him even though he was a Kiwi.
Well sorry, Barnaby being a bloody cockroach, I certainly can’t defend him even though it appears some questionable Queenslanders seem to be to blame for his head popping up again in the political circus in this country.
Barnum and Bailey Circus may be gone, but Barnaby’s is alive and well. God help us.
Ashley Robinson is a regular columnist for sunshinecoastnews.com.au and My Weekly Preview. His views are his own.
