Category: [Idiots]

I kind of love when Australian politics takes a silly turn, and damned if it’s not doing that right now…

Not quite a year ago, advertising for Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party was … everywhere.
Now, disgruntled former candidates and members of the United Australia Party have come together to establish a new political party, The Australians United.
The name sounds similar, the colour of the party logo is yellow (once synonymous with the UAP billboards), but they say their management will be different.

Yeah, you don’t have a fucking weirdo billionaire bankrolling your failure this time… although allegedly you didn’t last time either, cos TAU leader Jamal Daoud is the guy who sued the UAP for “mismanaging” their federal election campaign that famously ended up with the Clive gang just getting one senate seat and eventually being deregistered; Daoud was whinging about having to spend his own money on campaign materials (which other UAP members apparently claimed he didn’t actually have authority to do anyway), and I see by looking at his Twitter he’s actually been trying to whip up the People’s Front of Judea… er, The Australians United since last August, not long after the angry fist-waving came to nothing. The funniest thing, though, is that if Daoud and his mates do stand in the March election, they can’t actually do it as a party cos you have to have been a registered party for 16 months before you can do that, so they’d all have to stand as independents. And even fewer people will know or care who they are then; I feel like Jamal might come out of this wishing for the days when he could get as much as two percent of the vote…

Wonder how he feels about Bashar Al Assad these days, by the way… long before cosying up to Clive Palmer, he was kind of cosying up to Julian Assange as part of the Wikileaks Party, in which capacity he was part of a much-criticised 2013 visit to Syria by party members who were accused of cosying up to the dictator of Syria. This at a time when Daoud was marketing himself as a refugee advocate, too, so not a great look… Anyway, I don’t suppose there’s much danger of him standing up for refugees these days, cos he evidently left the Wikileaks life behind a while ago for the far-right grift instead; the only question now is how long until Ralph Babet forms the Party for a United Australia…