Abbott admits he’s wasting 4.3 million taxpayer dollars
Tony Abbott “continues to make the most astounding, cringe-worthy gaffes that stretch all credulity” writes Jennifer Wilson.
This, today from a Prime Minister who spends 4.3 million of taxpayer dollars monitoring social media, and employing spin doctors to “offer strategic communications advice” from the information gleaned:
I’ll leave social media to its own devices [said Abbott today]. Social
media is kind of like electronic graffiti and I think that in the
media, you make a big mistake to pay too much attention to social
media,” Mr Abbott said. You wouldn’t report what’s sprayed up on the walls of buildings…
In spite of that 4.3 million taxpayer dollars’ worth of strategic
communication advice, in spite of the iron control reportedly exerted
over the PM by Chief of Staff Peta Credlin, Abbott continues to make the
most astounding, cringe-worthy gaffes that stretch all credulity, and
nobody wants him anywhere near them.
So it would seem the spin doctors and Ms Credlin are catastrophically
useless at their jobs, because just when you think Abbott can’t get
anymore bizarre, he goes and smashes all his previous records of stupid.
If Credlin and the strategic communications advisors were employed by
anyone other than the LNP government they’d be sacked. I wonder how any
of them will ever find alternative employment, given their unbroken
record of spectacular failure with the Prime Minister.
Please do leave social media to its own devices, Mr Abbott, and stop
wasting our money on monitoring it to see what it’s saying about you.
It’s never anything good, you can be sure of that. How many millions of
our dollars do you need to spend to find out what an absolute fool we
think you are?
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. You can’t make a silk
purse out of a pig’s ear. No matter how many dollars and spin doctors
you throw at it, you just can’t. A pig’s ear is a pig’s ear and right
now, on Australia Day 2015, we have a pig’s ear in charge.
(I suppose I should say sorry to pigs, who are really pretty smart animals.)
(Which Tony Abbott is not. A smart animal, that is.)
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This article was first publish on No Place For Sheep.
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