Bob Katter needs to harden the truck up.
You might not have seen it, but today he was all over the TV whining about how scared he is of city folk, of how we bend his words and those of all his country bumpkin cousins’.
How we stomp on all his good ol’ country honesty.
Come on, Bob. You need to put down the banjo and get some backbone - instead of laying around on the land revelling in rural welfare like diesel subsidies and phone and post rebates.
I think I speak for all of us shiny city peeps when I say we’re kind of sick of your whining. If it’s not drought relief, it’s water allocation, if it’s not dry land salinity it’s your wheat cartel giving kickbacks to Saddam.
To be honest mate we’re kind of sick of carrying you. You and your “honesty”.
Pauline Hanson, whose defence you leapt to this morning, her “honesty” did great stuff didn’t it?
Her well-thought out “honesty” for solving economic problems by printing more money. Or of “honestly” charging a 2% flat tax. To be honest that “honesty” didn’t get us far.
And all her “honesty” about Asians and Aborigines got us was international headlines and division at home.
We city folk wouldn’t say what Pauline Hanson said, because “honestly” they weren’t bloody morons.
What would have been best is if Pauline had just “honestly” admitted that she “honestly” knew nothing. That she had more opinions than knowledge and then just shut the hell up.
Yes, us eggheads in the metros – we really tend to be pretty picky – we kind of like political correctness. Because mostly it’s just that, correct. We like being correct.
But on this issue of ugly women going to Mt Isa, I have to say I agree with you.
Because women should feel completely comfortable being recruited as sex slaves for the none-too-picky miners of Mt Isa. I can’t believe hundreds of self-respecting sheilas haven’t jumped in their Ford Festivas to get up there and get themselves into the paws of the sweaty country blokes of Queensland’s dusty north.
Good on the Mayor of Mt Isa for using us city worry worts and our political correctness to get his point across.
It’s the kind of clever strategy regularly used by other politicians like you, Bob, from the nutcase right. The people who now give their Liberal party siblings a bad name.
Like Wilson “Ironbar” Tuckey – who got his nickname after being convicted of bashing an Aboriginal man with rubber flex.
Or Senator Ross Lightfoot who was fined by the Federal Court for his comments about Aboriginals.
Or Bronwyn Bishop, who said Pauline Hanson was a political prisoner when she was gaoled for fraud.
We need these people. You’re right, Bob, to remind us why we think the way we do.
Honestly.
