I know how it can feel to work in a doomed government. Each day you know it’ll be bad, you just don’t know at the beginning of the day what particular flavour it will be.
You try a bit of this, you try a swinging haymaker of that, the polls just keep saying yeah nah you guys just look like losers.
There’s almost a tone of indignant disbelief in Luxon’s scolding of us for offering him so little polling support, when he’s working so very hard.
Yes but to what end, Old Mate Grabaseat? What do you have to show for it apart from cuts and reversals and pointless culture war flounces?
Luxon is the very model of the manager who is flat-out-mate the whole time and highly paid and achieving absolutely sweet fuckall.
How he must be pining now for the cushy C-suite world where ambitious underlings perform way above their KPIs to make themselves and you look good.
Not like those ungrateful pricks in caucus going rogue on ya, eh Prime Minister?
And how might such caucus pricks be feeling, with their party and their seat in a spiralling nosedive for the compost, and no way to pull out?
WHO-SHOULD-BE-LEADER DECISION FLOW OF DOOM
I could say I feel your pain, and I wish you well, but let’s not be silly about this; the sooner we can graunch that gearbox out of reverse the bloody better.
We have never had more propitious circumstances for embracing a sane and better future by moving at the greatest possible pace with the greatest determination away from fossil fuels and into a future of clean, green, and abundant energy.
I love what Chlöe Swarbrick and the Greens had to say yesterday about electrifying the goddam country like nobody’s business. I love what The Conversation in Australia is saying, in particular this:
The point is not to pretend we can fully transform the transport system in three months, but we can make a start. The world has been surprised at how quickly solar, batteries and now EVs have been adopted. It has been the fastest energy transition in history.
With the same fiscal firepower that Canberra found to support the oil industry almost overnight, we could start to end our oil dependence.
I love that we could soon have a chance again to bloody do something.
