Open Ozzie Outrage Offs Honest ‘oward

26Nov07

They called him Honest John. At first it wasn’t ironic, but it became so. The man who lied that kids were being thrown into the sea by their parents, just to win votes. The man who said “never ever” to a consumption tax, and then “never ever” to raising it. The man who said no decision had yet been made to go to Iraq, even as he was happily being rogered by GWB and his VP Biggus Dickus. The list goes on and on…

Of course the publically funded and staunchly independent ABC in Australia did their best to expose him. What did Johnnie do? Tried to rip the guts out of the ABC of course! And when that wouldn’t work, he installed one of his shrillest fans, Jane Albrechtsen, to the ABC board. She who’s impartiality led her to say this.

So it’s about the sweetest irony of all, that Honest John not only loses the trust of the Australian public, but who becomes only the 2nd PM in Australian history to lose his own seat in an election, a seat that he’d held for 34 years. And who beat him? None other than former ABC presenter Maxine McKew. Onya Maxine.

Now all that’s left is to bid our former PM farewell. In the cherished words of Sir Elton John “Up Yours”:

Last words: Johnnie Howard, “toilet Hero”, that’s about right.

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