Leon Byner (5AA): The Copenhagen Treaty – have you read it entirely?
KEVIN RUDD: Well, I can say that A. there is none at this stage, B. there is a draft and the draft is a very thick document and it has in the parlance of the people who work on negotiations literally hundreds of square bracketed sections which means where there’s no agreement, so when you ask is there a Copenhagen Treaty at this stage, no there isn’t. Are there massive areas of disagreement within it? Yes there are.
Australia has to be very disturbed and confused by the lack of diligence currently being shown by the executive of our nation headed by Mr Rudd in his negotiations with the now infamous Copenhagen Treaty.
Mr Rudd, here is a simple piece of financial advice from your little old bush accountant.
A. If you don’t understand the contractual requirements as stipulated in the Copenhagen agreement, B. you should not sign it.
The transcript of Mr Rudd’s discussion with Leon Byner at 5AA can only leave us with two alternatives, A. he really does understand the implications of the agreement and he’s being duplicitous or B. he is a fool.
The ramifications of us being contractually engaged with the third world, one of the many attempts in recent decades to introduce cross subsidisation of developing countries by developed countries, will lead to A. the temperature of the globe staying exactly on the same course as it currently is and B. major industries will start moving offshore leaving us with unemployment.
The effect of the Copenhagen CPRS on the Australian citizen will be A. a massive new tax in every corner of our lives and B. a mechanism to increase the cost of overheads so as to put Australian jobs under threat.
If Mr Rudd is doing the research that we are doing he would be finding out that A. people hate the ETS with a passion and B. that if you inflict them with it they will vote for somebody else.
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