Payman Quits ALP
And just like that, Fatima Payman quits the ALP, pointing fingers.
She said she was "deeply torn" over the decision and continued to believe in the principles of the Labor Party, but felt she could see "no middle ground" that would allow her to remain in the party.
"On one hand, I have the immense support of the rank and file [Labor party] members, the unionists, the lifelong members, the party volunteers who are calling on me to hang in there and to make change happen internally," she said.
"On the other hand, I am pressured to conform to caucus solidarity and toe the party line.
"My conscience leaves me no choice," she said.
Ha. There's that word conscience again.
So the way she sees it, there's the rank and file, unionists and activists all asking for her to stay, and grit her teeth and gut it out for the good cause, and then there's her conscience that says she can't toe the party line.
Farknell. Good riddance. The ALP is better without her. and I'm not even a rank and file member. I mean, what would Paul Keating say in the dunny behind Old Parliament House.
You know what popped into my mind? This:
The first rule of party politics is to toe the line and keeping it elegant. Otherwise you're just rabble. Or 'Campus Trots' as Albo calls them. If you can't do it like Penny Wong, you shouldn't be there. If Fatima Payman really had a conscience, she should quit the Senate altogether but hey, six years in Parliament gets you that fat pension so she'll stay on. Her vaunted conscience won't extend there, I'm pretty sure.
What a blight on our country.
Deep In Muslim Territory
I live in Jason Clare's seat of Blaxland. His office is just around the corner from where I live. There are a lot of muslims here and now they're organising into something to protest the ALP's allegedly weak position on Palestine.
This bit made me laugh:
Asked if a shift away from Labor could end up getting a Coalition government elected, Sheikh Charkawi said it was about punishing Labor.
"The community doesn't want a Liberal government either.
"And there could be an unintended consequence.
"But ultimately, if you don't participate, and if you don't effectively flex to show the power of your vote, how will they ever take your vote seriously?"
So, the kind of bloody-minded thinking that would beggar they neighbours and take the world into a hellhole with Palestine, is going to organise to sabotage the ALP in this electorate, even if it gets a Liberal Party member elected. I can assure you this area is full of this kind of low civility, but even this kind of 'thinking' takes the cake. It's not the-enemy-of-an-enemy being a friend. They don't care that the enemy-of-an-enemy is going to rule over them as an enemy, as long as they do in their own enemy. They would cut off their noses to spit their face, cut off their dicks to spite their balls. It's insane out here. Jason Clare had better watch out!
On second thoughts maybe not. Nobody in the Muslim Vote party would ever toe the line because their conscience won't let them.
Some Other Thoughts on Gaza
The Philistines of old lived in Gaza.
Yup, that's it right there in red.
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