Asleep at the Wheel
The PM had no idea about the latest boat arrival because he was "travelling in a car"
Is Anthony Albanese Australia’s answer to Joe Biden?
This brief exchange between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and a journalist on Friday made me laugh.
Albo was asked …
“We’re hearing an asylum seeker boat has arrived off the West Australian coast line. Do you know anything about that?”
To which the PM replied …
“Ah, I’ve been travelling in the car, ah, so, I, I’m, I’m not, I haven’t been advised about that.”
Someone needs to advise Albanese that, even when the car is moving, you can still make and receive phone calls. That’s why it’s called a MOBILE phone!
So what gives?
Thirty blokes from Pakistan and Bangladesh don’t arrive undetected on the Australian coastline and then just wander into a local community without the PM being immediately advised.
But he couldn’t take a call because he was driving?
Was he in the world’s longest tunnel?
Is he with Optus?
Perhaps he was exercising his right to disconnect? Tony Burke would have been so proud.
The most likely explanation is that our very own Swiftie in the Lodge was on hold to Ticketek, trying to get concert seats.
Former Prime Ministers used to bat away asylum seeker questions by simply insisting that they would “not discuss sensitive operational matters".
Justified or not, people thought that was reasonable.
But to pull out the old "I was travelling in the car" excuse? That can only work when the media is completely on your side. How journalists didn’t burst into spontaneous laughter is beyond me.
If I were the Liberals I would immediately make the exchange part of an election advertising campaign.
“I was travelling in the car” is more deadly than “I don’t hold a hose”.
Everyone in Australia knows why Anthony Albanese couldn’t take a phone call while in the car. He was asleep at the wheel.
Sadly, we are degenerating back to rule by an overeducated, wealthy elite, who think they know best for us and are in it for power. These are the new Lords and Ladies, Kings and Tsar billionaires. History repeats itself. Rome rotted from within.
We spent billions on woke social engineering, creating division, while our roads deteriorate, education levels plummet, miltary capability collapsing, and hospitals and emergency services failing. They create division to distract the "deplorables." The left media are on board, overcome with their own importance continually pushing the woke ideology whilst avoiding the raw truth. The populace is comatosed with comfort and generous social welfare. Ignorant of the existential risks we face. Democracy is fragile, beware.
I seem to notice that whenever the PM arrives anywhere he gets out of the BACK seat. I imagine that’s because he has a driver. Unless he really is a back seat driver.