Oz rocks
March 16th 2007 09:20
Melanie Phillips thinks Oz rocks.:
Coming from Britain to Canberra to interview members of the Australian government is like leaving a fetid malarial swamp to be douched with fresh cold water from a mountain spring. These guys are so on-side in the great fight for civilisation against barbarism that they make ‘Bush’s poodle’ Tony Blair sound like a Harold Pinter wannabe on a bad day in Basra.
She is impressed not just by John Howard(who wouldn't be?) but by his entire cabinet and that means Phillip Ruddock, Peter Costello and others. But John Howard is a wizard:
Of course, the Aussies’ moral and political clarity springs in large measure from the robustness of John Howard himself. Howard’s political genius — his Liberal party has won four general elections on the trot — derives from his extraordinary ability to articulate the values and aspirations of Middle Australia.
Please,Melanie, not so fast. It is this great man who is in danger of losing to a rudderless chinbag called Kevin Rudd who is leading in the polls. I too, lamely believed that the opinion polls all had liberal bias and the Republicans were going to win the US election last year. Since then, I am getting jittery about Australia. In fact I am losing sleep.
Please, hold on your kind words for some monthsmore. If Howard wins the next electiona again, you can say, OZ truly rocks.
Coming from Britain to Canberra to interview members of the Australian government is like leaving a fetid malarial swamp to be douched with fresh cold water from a mountain spring. These guys are so on-side in the great fight for civilisation against barbarism that they make ‘Bush’s poodle’ Tony Blair sound like a Harold Pinter wannabe on a bad day in Basra.
She is impressed not just by John Howard(who wouldn't be?) but by his entire cabinet and that means Phillip Ruddock, Peter Costello and others. But John Howard is a wizard:
Of course, the Aussies’ moral and political clarity springs in large measure from the robustness of John Howard himself. Howard’s political genius — his Liberal party has won four general elections on the trot — derives from his extraordinary ability to articulate the values and aspirations of Middle Australia.
Please,Melanie, not so fast. It is this great man who is in danger of losing to a rudderless chinbag called Kevin Rudd who is leading in the polls. I too, lamely believed that the opinion polls all had liberal bias and the Republicans were going to win the US election last year. Since then, I am getting jittery about Australia. In fact I am losing sleep.
Please, hold on your kind words for some monthsmore. If Howard wins the next electiona again, you can say, OZ truly rocks.
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