The inevitable progression to the fact that the Emissions Trading Scheme is unworkable has spilt like divine dew from the lips of the prophet himself. Prime Minister get over it and ditch it altogether, said Senator Barnaby Joyce, the Leader of the Nationals in the Senate. “It is looking pathetic to live in this twilight zone of we believe it but not just yet but not quite like it is and we have got to decisively delay it because it is terribly important that we do something now,” he said.
“Just for the record, it was the National Party that started the agenda of calling this rubbish. It has taken a while but we all seem to be getting to the same page and that page is Australians saying ‘I would really like to keep my job if that’s all right with you Mr Rudd, thank you very much’. How on earth we could contemplate a new tax on production in the middle of a recession was beyond the scope of silliness.
“The next position is Mr Rudd believes the recession will be over on 1 July 2011. Thank you very much for that, I will jot that down in my diary.
“What about poor Penny Wong, your own minister? I would have to say she may be feeling a little miffed that the end of the world has to be delayed to a time of your convenience. I’m sure there has been common ground found between those who hold coal and farming seats and want to sleep safely in their bed at night and the earnest ones conducting frantic manic discussions at the Mystical Monkey Coffee Shop in inner suburban Nirvanaville. These two constituencies go together like motion sickness and windy roads but Mr Rudd has stopped the car for the Labor Party to stand at the side of the road and dislodge their policy contents.
“I hark back to the reasons we apparently had to vote for Mr Rudd and I’m trying to work out which legs of his policy table still exist, or is his platform now levitating. I can see the hand gesticulations and paper shuffling going into overdrive. I can feel another stimulus package coming on or a war against some yet to be informed but currently quite happy group in society to distract us from Mr Rudd’s latest version of everything is under control, just like the wreck of the Hesperus.”