To quote Lindsay Tanner, “if that was a meltdown you should see my three-year-old daughter”.

What we saw was not the real meltdown but a carefully edited version of a tirade by the PM which went to air. In a Groupthink Exclusive, we have obtained a transcript of the unedited exchange between Mr Rudd and Kerry O’Brien on ETS reversal, which makes for interesting reading.

You decide if indeed the Prime Minister has had a meltdown (contains course language).

KERRY O’BRIEN: I said brand Rudd, you said the Government. I’m talking about Kevin Rudd, I’m talking about your image, your credibility, your brand.

Whether some of those that appear to have been lost to you this year come back before the next election, or not, do you understand why so many people have turned against you now, Kevin Rudd, not just the Government, Kevin Rudd, and do you accept that they have judged your leadership and found you wanting?

KEVIN RUDD: Kerry, that is a question which, um, you should, um, put to other folk, political commentators like that pisshead Milne and the rest. My job is to get on with the business of …

KERRY O’BRIEN: No, I’m putting it to you…

KEVIN RUDD: …no, no…fuck off!

KERRY O’BRIEN: …because you can’t possibly suggest that this does not exercise your mind at all, that you are so focused, you’re so focused on Government that you’re not concerned about whether you’re losing support going into the next election?

KEVIN RUDD: I’d expect that sort of fuckin shit from a ranga! Kerry, look I’m human like anyone else and of course you’d, um. be, um, um, if you weren’t affected by developments from time to time, that’s just the truth of it.  This business sucks shit at the best of time and the Australian public are a bunch of ungrateful cunts …

What’s the reality that I had to confront there? Well two realities. One is that them bastard Liberals backflipped and voted our legislation down, having negotiated an agreement with Mr Turnbull to get it through. That is the reality we had to confront, but I don’t see any of those fuckwit greenies who think they’re saving the world by reusing shopping bags having a go at Abbott like the big-eared piece of shit scum he is.

And the second reality is this, that when we got to Copenhagen it didn’t produce the sort of progress and the global agenda that we all had hoped, therefore where do we go to from here? I tell you where we go – to fucking buggery Kerry because the world is fucked.

KERRY O’BRIEN: but um…

KEVIN RUDD: No, hang on, let me finish, you smart arsed ginger fuck! You’ve asked me a pretty fundamental question here which is about how the actions which I’m responsible for and the Government’s responsible for are being seen.  How about let me finish before I tear you a new arsehole … you twat stick.

On the question of climate change our view hasn’t changed one bit. The greenhouse gas reduction targets remain the same, our commitment to a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme is the best way of getting there is the same, but we can’t alter the fact the those Liberal Party arse wipes  voted this down in the Senate…

KERRY O’BRIEN: OK, but…

KEVIN RUDD: … fuck up, therefore we have to…

KERRY O’BRIEN: …but there’s one thing you can’t escape and that is this: it is still in your hands to go to the next election on the issue as you defined as ‘a great moral challenge of our time’, an issue on which you accused the Opposition of political, of absolute political cowardice, it’s in your hands to go to the next election, seek a double dissolution, whether you seek a double dissolution or not and make this ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme) a fresh mandate for the people to decide and tell both sides of politics what they want.

Now you have squibbed that decision. You have put this on the backburner until 2013, at least, in the Budget makes that clear?

KEVIN RUDD: You know something, Rooster Pubes; I will be delighted to fight Mr Abbott on the next election, at the next election, whenever it is held, on climate change absolutely… I’d be happy to fight the little cunt in a cage armed with nothing but a tow rope and a Stanley knife.

KERRY O’BRIEN: On the ETS?

KEVIN RUDD: Fuck yeah. On climate change and actions to bring it about. The bottom line is this: we believe in climate change, he says it’s absolute crap – like his momma.

We believe that an emissions trading scheme is the most effective and cheapest way of getting there, he has rejected that position despite the Liberal Party having formally embraced it. I now have to confront the reality of that is what he’s done and now I’m the one who looks like the areshole here.

The other thing is this, and this is the second reality I referred to before which you skipped over like the fuckwit you are, and that is that the progress on global action has been slower than a monga doing the fuckin NAPLAN test.

That is why we’ve announced a decision that we would, ah, not seek to reintroduce this legislation until the end of the Kyoto commitment period and on the basis that global action has been slower than the service at Gloria Jeans – fuck I hate that joint!

KERRY O’BRIEN: …but, but Mr Rudd…

KEVIN RUDD: …no, get fucked Fanta pants, let me finish, in the meantime what we will do…

KERRY O’BRIEN: Mr Rudd, when the Opposition tried to argue with you on holding back a vote on the ETS until after Copenhagen, that is, until after the world had made a stand, you said that was absolute political cowardice.

So why is it now not absolute political cowardice for you to show leadership on this to the rest of the world by seeking to take the Australian people with you at the next election on an ETS?

KEVIN RUDD: You know something Kerry, where I think you’re full of fucking shit is um, frankly being absent from the negotiations in Copenhagen themselves.

There was no government in the world like the Australian Government which threw its every energy at bringing about a deal, a global deal, on climate change. Penny Wong and I sat up for three days and three nights on the piss with 20 leaders from around the world to try and frame a global agreement. Do you know who shit Carlsberg beer is Kerry?

Now it might be easy for you to sit in 7:30 Report land with your lazy ABC public service colleagues, canteen, Leigh Sales and one of those machines that makes hot fuckin chocolate and say that was easy to do. Let me tell you mate, it wasn’t.

We are fundamentally committed to climate change. We could not get the accord that we wanted. As a consequence we need to do further work on the global front, further work on the national front because I am absolutely fucking passionate about acting on climate change while every other cunt is running around like a bitch worrying about what the fucking Greeks are gonna do next. Fuck the fuckin’ Greeks! And Portugal!

We’ve been frustrated domestically politically, frustrated internationally, and fucked up the arse like Elton John by the lack of progress there, but we will not be deterred, we will progress this matter and we will achieve the best possible means of bringing down our greenhouse gas reductions, greenhouse gas, levels in the future.

And the bottom line is this Strawbs, the bottom line is this: there is no way you can stare in the mirror in the future and say that you have passed up the core opportunity to act on climate change. I will not do that. The Government that I lead will not do that, but I cannot wish away the two realities I’ve just referred to. So next time you accuse me of squibbing I shit you fucking not, I’ll tear your ginger head off your shoulders and shit down your fucking wind pipe.
KERRY O’BRIEN: OK… OK

KEVIN RUDD: … no fuck OK, the two realities are there. You smug prick.

 

 

 

We know he stands for action on climate change … kinda. Only enough so as to not piss anyone off. We know he stands for a more humane asylum seeker policy. Sorta. As long as that more humane policy doesn’t appear to be ‘weak’ on ‘border protection’. (How the right keep framing the debates so well will never cease to amaze me.)

And in being so careful not to step on anyone’s toes he has alienated everyone. And for what? The people he tries so hard not to offend were likely never to support him anyway. Instead he comes across as gutless, do nothing, and direction-less.

We know he hasn’t had the easiest Senate to deal with. Working with the Coalition would seem a lot easier than trying to get Family First and The Greens to agree to agree with each other, let alone the ALP. But it’s weak. It waters down their policy and closes the gap between the ALP and The Coalition even further, when there really wasn’t a lot of margin there to play with. Rudd has acted in government like he acted in a campaign. He has had three years to govern and he doesn’t really seem like he has done much of it.

The ALP loses credibility when discussing the issues and looks weak when discussing the process.

That said, I hope Labor gets a second term and an easier Senate to negotiate. The Greens holding the balance of power in their own right would bring the debate back towards the left, and I don’t think that’s at all a bad thing for the country or for the government.

With more certainty in the Senate, perhaps Rudd won’t fold so easily. A stronger ETS policy, more ‘revolution’ in their education and health policy, a genuinely humane approach to asylum seekers and real action on closing the gap with indigenous Australians.

If Rudd wants to win this election, he now has an uphill battle to fight. He needs to sell a vision, he needs to stop playing so ‘safe’ and sell a vision of Australia. Stop being so process driven, and chase after the policy and sell it to Australia. Of course, this assumes he has a vision that he’s struggling to sell. Which I am not totally convinced he has.

But if you’re running out of reasons why he deserves another chance and a second term, remember: he’s not the other guy. Worked for him last time.

But just quietly, I’m kinda hoping Julia books her ticket to Mars.

Citizens Electoral Council of Australia
Media Release 1st of December 2009

Queen flexes muscle to demand Copenhagen genocide treaty

Just as the climate change hoax is about to derail completely, Her Britannic Majesty herself, Queen Elizabeth II, whose family spawned the modern green genocide movement*, has pulled rank on the Commonwealth group of nations—her repackaged “Empah”—to demand they deliver a treaty at Copenhagen.

*(Royal Consort HRH the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, founded the World Wide Fund for Nature [WWF] in 1961, as a charity vehicle for his fellow European aristocrats and their corporations to finance green movements around the world to stop economic development and reduce human population.)

The Queen’s extraordinary intervention smacks of real desperation—she knows her family’s long-term survival as modern feudal monarchs depends on her carefully-cultivated image as a powerless, quaint figurehead, so the stakes must be high for her to feel the need to flex her considerable muscle, which is derived from her royal “Prerogative Powers”, which include the powers:

• to declare war;
• choose and appoint all commanders and officers by land, sea, and air;
• convoke, adjourn, remove, and dissolve parliament;
• dismiss the prime minister and choose whom she will as the replacement;
• choose and appoint all judges, councillors, officers of state, magistrates;
• bestow all public honours, including creating a peerage for membership of the House of Lords or bestowing an order of chivalry;
• conclude treaties;
• initiate criminal proceedings, and bestow pardons;
• and many others, which she has shown in the past she is willing to use, notably when she sacked the Whitlam government in 1975, whose “buy back the farm” policies were a threat to her own control of Australia’s raw materials wealth exercised through her ownership of Rio Tinto.

For the British imperialists, what is at stake if the global warming fraud fails, is the continuity of empire itself, in the form of globalisation. To survive in the face of the global economic collapse, nations are reasserting their national sovereignty, backing away from the free trade and deregulated finance policies that are the cornerstones of British imperialism.

(In a world of total free trade, freed from government regulations and protections, it is money which dictates terms, not governments, and that money is directed from the City of London—that is the British Empire. When nations reassert their sovereign laws to exert national controls over money, the City of London—the Empire—is defeated.)

“Climate change” promised to be the mechanism to both further globalisation, in the form of binding international treaties, global government institutions, and a new financial architecture centred on carbon emissions trading, as well as to deliver on the Prince Philip-led goal of human population reduction, by denying nations the right to develop high-density energy sources and high-technology primary and secondary industries, thus condemning them to poverty, squalor and mass death.

In the countdown to Copenhagen, that plan derailed: China and India refused to bow to the treaty’s demands to slash agriculture (China, India, South Africa and Brazil issued a joint declaration in Beijing on 27th November, promising to walk out of Copenhagen to protect their national interests); hackers or whistleblowers exposed the actually deliberate scientific fraud by the world’s leading so-called climate scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU); and in Australia, which under British agent Kevin Rudd was appointed to take the lead on global action on climate change, the parliament deadlocked, and was unable to pass the key climate change legislation, the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), which Rudd was hoping to parade as “action” at Copenhagen.

This is the context in which the Queen herself has intervened, but a revolution is underway: instead of the usual grovelling acquiescence she’d expect, aside from the biggest nation in her Commonwealth, India, lining up against her (see above), her ordinarily very loyal Opposition in Australia has shifted under intense public pressure, and dumped the climate change believer Malcolm Turnbull as leader, for avowed sceptic Tony Abbott, to stymie the ETS bill altogether.

Um, yep.

Why?
To combat climate change caused by man-made carbon emissions. The idea is if companies have to pay to pollute they will pollute less; the climate will stop changing and baby polar bears will live to become big polar bears allowing them to scavenge through Alaskan rubbish tips.

But companies pollute because they make things or produce power. How will they be able to keep providing us with their important products and services?
This is the smart bit. They will pay the ETS and the government will give them the money back so they can continue what they’re doing to protect jobs and working families. At the same time they will pass the ETS costs to the consumer which means some polluting companies and industries will be better off under an ETS despite not actually reducing their carbon footprint.

That’s sounds ridiculous!
That’s your interpretation, but at least the government will look like it’s doing something to stop climate change.

But will an ETS stop climate change? Surely once the Antarctic sheds millions of tons of ice and sea levels rise there’s not much we can do to stop it. It’s like trying to stop a freight train with a wet kipper.

You know, for a dummy you’re quite the smart arse! Listen, this isn’t about stopping climate change it’s about feeling good that we’re doing our best without having to actually give up anything that causes pollution. We’ll still use electricity and drive cars, but we’ll do it safe in the knowledge that it really gives conservatives the shits.

You’re a deranged lefty idiot. This isn’t about climate change at all, it’s about idealism.
Oh dear, is that the time… ?

Does anybody seriously believe that the ETS, a market solution, par excellence, is going to make the slightest bit of difference? That in placing all of our eggs into the capitalist basket, we are trusting in a magic talisman that can, at best, merely tinker on the margins?

Using capitalist structures and processes as a means of combating AGW is like trying to fight a live bushfire by opening up a a farmers’ market, and putting a tax on undergrowth.

And this at a time when support for ‘the market’ has never been lower.

I like to make sure that I look at both sides of the story, and the ETS debate is no different. I’ve looked at the government’s side (anthropomorphic climate change is definitely real and we need an EMS right now) and the opposition’s side (anthrophomorpic climate change is possibly real and we might need an LMS sometime in the short or medium term), but Family First’s side of the story is quite different again: anhtro antro antrhop man-made climate change is a myth and the PMS is completely unnecessary and will destroy man’s way of life.

But you wouldn’t believe the trouble I’ve had in getting my view heard! Penny Wong and Ian Macfarlane meet regularly to thrash out a version of the government Bill that the coalition might support, but the way they’ve dismissed Family First’s role in these crucial negotiations is a disgrace to Australian democracy. Imagine a democratically-elected Senator being manhandled and ejected from meetings inside Parliament House! It’s not like they didn’t know I was coming; each time I’ve told Xzennophone to tell Barnaby to tell Macfarlane, and Xzennophone to tell Conroy to tell Wong.

Some nights I’ve been in tears at home, burning up with the indignity of the way the other MPs treat me. I tried telling David Hawker about the teasing and bullying but he didn’t seem to care. Even my son, when he got home from school the other day and found me on the lounge with Blanky, told me to “harden the fuck up”. I told him that’s not very Christian language but he just mumbled something about wishing he was adopted.

So when I heard some people this week start talking about a One World Government that might be formed in Copenhagen soon, I got very excited. Maybe I could run for election to a government that is kinder and more accepting. A government that is inclusive and considerate. A government that looks at all of my sides of the story. I mentioned to Susan that this new government will add significantly to the Pope’s workload given that he’s the head of the world, but Susan told me he’s only the head of the Catholic Church. And you could’ve blown me right there and then when Susan dropped the bombshell that the Pentecostal Church is not part of the Catholic Church so the Pope isn’t even the head of me! A lifetime of delusion, it seems.

Anyway, I’ve started doing some research into how one would go about running a campaign for the One World Government, and I’m trying to book a flight to the Hungarian capital to be at the centre of the action at its inception. Given that Australia is part of the world, and the One World Government will be the world’s boss, I will be able to have much more influence over Australia’s PMT policy from the OWG Parliament than from the chamber of Australia’s Senate.

Until next time.