On August 19th, 2007, an oil tanker off the coast of Australia split in two, dumping 20,000 tons of crude oil. Senator Collins, a member of the Australian Parliament, appeared on a TV news program to reassure the Australian public. This actual interview is so funny, you'd swear it was a Saturday Night Live or Monty Python skit. But it's the real thing!
Typical.
ReplyDeletePaddy was about to leave the Cathedral when he noticed an inscription on a tomb which read;' Here lies a brilliant politician and an honest man'. He wondered how they fitted two blokes into such a small space.
Paddy
Sorry Stan,
ReplyDeleteYou've been had! These two are political Satirists who extract the urine out of "Pollies". The one on the left is John Clark.
They normally appear at the end of an ABC Current Affairs programme called. "The 7.30 Report".
alex(kev)
So it is a Saturday Night Live or Monty Python skit, good job I put a question mark in the title eh. Thanks for that Kev but it's still done nothing to restore my faith in politicians. The video came from a chinese 'group' website xa.yimg.com (downunder) where they clearly don't know the difference mate!
ReplyDeleteI'm the same,have no faith in polititians at all,out to make what they can,only hope the least crooked get in power.We,ve got a foreign minister here that takes his BB on tour with him!!!!
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PS - and BB is not bread and breakfast!
Politicians????? Gentleman, let me explain from a recent email I received:
ReplyDeleteIt's a slow day in a little South Devon town. The sun is beating down, and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit. On this particular day a rich tourist from up north is driving through town. He stops at the motel and lays £100 in cash on the desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night.
As the man walks upstairs, the owner grabs the notes and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.
The butcher takes the £100 and runs down the street to repay his debt to the pig farmer.
The pig farmer takes the £100 and heads off to pay his bill at the supplier of feed and fuel.
The guy at the Farmer's Co-op takes the £100 and runs to pay his debt to the local prostitute, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer her "services" on credit.
She rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill with the hotel owner.
The hotel proprietor then places the £100 back on the counter so the rich traveller will not suspect anything. At that moment the traveller comes down the stairs, picks up the £100, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money, and leaves town.
No one produced anything. No one earned anything. However, the whole town is now out of debt and now looks to the future with a lot more optimism.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the British Government is conducting business today.
And politicians have just given themselves another pay rise to keep it that way!
I hope they get their due on "expences" too!
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