I’m calling it here. It’s all over for Mark The Slightly Damp Teatowel McGowan. Alannah is coming back to hang him gently on the dish rack. Her lukewarm support for Teh Towel all but confirms it. “Mark McGowan is a very healthy young man and I have every expectation his health will hold out until the election.”
His health. Ouch.
It’s over. His inability to make any headway against a bumbling government and a total nincompoop of a Premier makes it a surprise he’s lasted this long. FFS he lost ground at the last election. And he’s still mumbling.
At least he’s got his health I guess.
Mr McGowan
The Worst of Perth 
If that’s lukewarm I’d hate to see an icy dagger to the heart. No great loss, apparently.
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Some thought that the quote about his health was made up by me. No. It’s real.
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http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/alannah-mactiernan-quits-federal-politics-but-coy-on-state-return-20160212-gmt3h2.html
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Very shiny coat. Great teeth.
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All ALP leaders enjoy good health until the shoppies and United Voice do a number on them. Then … not so much.
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It’s a doozy, and I definitely raised an eyebrow, perhaps two, when I first read it.
Turnbull was gifted innumerable opportunities by his predecessor to hone the art of loyally damning with faint praise, and I like that his standard response now is to deadpan that “the Member for Warringah is perfectly entitled to his opinion.”
A personal favourite remains Gore Vidal’s “so universally revered”, as employed in his reply to one Jay Topkis in The New York Review of Books back in 1989.
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She appears to be calling him a little boy. Healthy from playing outdoors.
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It’s great. I particularly like the “every expectation” and “hold out until”.
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A sentence more expressive, brutal and funny than Teh Towel has said in seven fucking years. Yes the “until”. Masterpiece.
When I spoke to Alannah (and she may have been taken aback by encountering someone more intoxicated than she) I said how Deff Geoff Gallop was great. She enthusiastically agreed. What a disaster Abbott was. Again enthusiastic agreement. I then said that maybe The Towel could be a good premier, but he was useless as an opposition leader…there wasn’t exactly the sound of crickets but she didn’t jump in with an outraged denial.
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Is this really happening? If so it’s a fucking outrage!
http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/perth-couples-garden-dream-crushed-for-last-time-with-wembley-verge-demolition-20160212-gmt2fi.html
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With the State credit rating already cut to AA2 I’m not sure we can afford to have Lannie on the hill for Friday afternoon drinks. Boom town is over.
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That’s the best part. Labor won’t have to spend half their term ruining the economy. It’s all been done for them.
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You aren’t helping. No wonder voting is compulsory.
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They gave it a good push downhill by losing Icthys.
A bus driver told me couple days ago never to let Alannah buy buses. Don’t know why he told me but he said it as if he was an authority on buses.
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Sure it wasn’t drive buses?
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Reg Varney?
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Bus shot in tomorrow’s OS. Can’t say too much.
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If Alannah ran for Perth, she could catch the 950 to her electoral office, say at Dominion Bar.
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Eleni doomed?
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Or does a union leader have to die to get her a seat?
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Maybe one will have an “accident”.
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Someone will “buy the bus” you mean?
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Whatever it takes: she has experience with bus matters.
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Wow. A future you can believe in.
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The future is Alannah stamping her boot into the accelerator of a bus that’s a small bar/food van/Fringe venue.
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And so the poisoned cocktail in the mason jar and the razor blade in the gozleme…of course! It’s so simple.
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He said it because the gas abominations have resulted in about 17 fires/explosions since their inception. xxxxxx lucky nobody has perished – and i bet xxxx praying nobody does.
They are gutless and extremely problematic in our WA heat……error codes galore from their pathetically inadequate computer system. Blaaaah – xxxxxxxx.
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They gave it a good push downhill by losing Icthys.
A bus driver told me couple days ago never to let Alannah buy buses. Don’t know why he told me but he said it as if he was an authority on buses.
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They gave it a good push downhill by losing icthys.
A bus driver told me couple days ago never to let Alannah buy buses. Don’t know why he told me but he said it as if he was an authority on buses.
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Carey is running in State seat of Perth. Maybe he can topple the teatowel?
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He has to run through Alien Evilangel first
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“Leicht angefeuchteten Teetuch” news
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-10/mark-mcgowan-not-flamboyant-enough-win-election-halden-says/7237350
and “Après lui, le déluge” says Emperor’s suck puppet
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-11/wa-liberals-will-lose-election-without-barnett-says-everingham/7234904
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And in other news, good riddance Cammo, who manages to come across as a monstrous arsehole even when crying.
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I take it you didn’t leave farewell message on the Cammo hotline then? I had a look on the ALPBC website yesterday and he looked like an animated corpse – which is pretty much the only time people ever leave the staff run co-op that is the taxpayer funded broadcaster. Only another 20 years of Nana Hutchison then.
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I’m relatively ok with Nanna, but there’s no slot that wouldn’t be done better by Russel.
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I’m not sure I wouldn’r prefer the teatowel to Smith, who always struck me as a cunt. But TSDTT isn’t likely to get elected, so I guess I prefer Smith to Barnett.
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Is there any political contest anywhere in the world that hasn’t been reduced to the least worst of the worst? I wonder if the ancient Greeks had this problem too?
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Is Smith Thrasybulus and McGowan Alcibiades?
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“Alkibiades was a gifted and flamboyant Athenian statesman” In that case no.
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Disguised as a giant goon-bag the Athenians didn’t think before dragging it inside the city walls …
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Although it would be funny if perennial loser and house owner Reece Whitby was dumped from Baldivis, where the teatowel pencilled him in.
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It would be a toss up between Whitby and Bomber Beazley’s daughter as to the biggest dud Labor has tried to dump on the electorate.
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I was sad when giant bongs were banned by Mr Barnett and deposed by the giant goon bags.
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Demarcation dispute in the New Class jungle. WA ALP clique run by ppl with no productive work skills who did school-uni-politics in WA. Smith is one of them, Teatowel isn’t. Teatowel has no productive work skills and did school-uni in Vic. Then politics. He should be reading Camus’ The Outsider.
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“My leadership died today. Or maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure.”
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He should be doing his hard work in the background somewhere. Rockingham compliance officer. Comparisons have been made with Deff Geoff Gallop, who also lost one election. But Deff Geoff was a fucking leader.
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Time to bring back Norm Marlborough. I’m pretty sure Brian still has his number. Just get him to answer the right phone this time.
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Speaking of regrettable ALP candidates, I see Crybaby Bowler was on the telly fighting for the right to beat children.
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The Desert Rats are tough.
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You leave for 5 minutes and Teatowel McGowan is top of the polls and looking like the new Premier with the support of the West and ready, Roosevelt like, to bring in his new deal of mumbling for the people, of the people and by the people!
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Well I didn’t see THAT in the Phnom Penh Post😳
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Comes up smelling like Sneakers.
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Smiths old fart challenge actually put TSDTT on the news for a change. For some it would be the first time they’d ever seen him in 4 years.
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Of course Colin blinding that young girl in Elizabeth quay probably more of a reason why Teh Towel looks good.
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Pollies and bacteria are a dangerous mix.
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Colons and water are a dangerous mix.
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I hope they rushed her to Fiona Stanley.
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Bring back Jim McGinty.
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A Reece for our times.
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wa alp my kitchen rules. Teatowel v feather duster. Teatowel cleans up.
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Prepare to welcome your Teatowel overlord.
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Seems to be what’s happening. Are we moving to Canada?
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Come up here! The head bloke is one-eyed!
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Il Principe by Sneakers McGowan. Foreword by Brian Burke and Julian Grill.
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