Ricky Muir

[cheap]

Originally Posted by trublu

You make a good leader for any lynch mob, no doubt at all.

My employees say I'm tough but fair, with a leave no man behind approach. If I have to lynch someone so be it.

I learnt the hard way that responsibility means you have to LEAD not be led.

Ricky is nothing but a low IQ fool, everyone knows this. His sole contribution is to provide a binary Yes or No in the manipulative numbers game that is politics. Luckily for Ricky, thinking is not required, he lets others do this for him - WHAT A DISGRACE!

[eaglem]

Originally Posted by jpblue1000

For better or for worse he stood up was counted and won. Many here ***** and moan, But he got of his *** and now has a chance to address the issues he believed needed addressing.
In order to win first you must play. bitching on the internet is not playing.

He couldn't be much more embarrassing then Mr canadia! and Mr Suppository.


JP

There's been more and bigger screw-ups from Shorten and crew than the one you're pointing at and Muir has one thing going for him, he's smarter than Sarah Hanson-Young.

[XRtowcar]

I'm personally looking forward to full grand standing around Bathurst, tax incentives on all V8 engine cars, and half price VB pots.
Go Ricky, Go Ricky...

[DJR-351]

It may help if he started insisting he be known as Senator Richard Muir...

Just a thought......

[Trevor 57]

Originally Posted by MrMaestro

The AMEP website says they believe in, among other things:

• smaller government
• a sense of family
• lower taxation
• society's responsibility to the disadvantaged
• the best possible education regardless of wealth

What is wrong with those ideals, they seem fine to me

[MrMaestro]

I guess it depends on your political persuasion. But my point was to correct cheap calling them a bunch of fringe lefties when that really isn't the case.

[xxx000]

Originally Posted by eaglem

There's been more and bigger screw-ups from Shorten and crew than the one you're pointing at and Muir has one thing going for him, he's smarter than Sarah Hanson-Young.

Nothing wrong with Hanson-Young, she's a smart and compassionate cookie
Muir would struggle to find someone dumber than himself

[NAK302]

Originally Posted by xxx000

Nothing wrong with Hanson-Young, she's a smart and compassionate cookie

that party she represents is so out of touch with everything in my electrate it is rediculous. but then the demographics of this country are so vast, people will look at where i live and say we are rediculous.

i find it quite incredible to read some of the personal remarks made to this ordinary bloke from keyboard warriors. at least he is in there trying to have a go. good on him for doing that, even though he still has to learn to have contempt for the usual media trash that the keyboard warriors seem to agree with.

[Cashie]

Originally Posted by xxx000

Nothing wrong with Hanson-Young, she's a smart and compassionate cookie
Muir would struggle to find someone dumber than himself

Yeah, she's off the planet and doesn't have a clue what's actually achievable in the real world..
She also thinks the fictional TV series Sea Patrol is a documentary about the Navy.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opin...-1226816135962

[noflac52]

Originally Posted by DJR-351

It may help if he started insisting he be known as Senator Richard Muir...

Just a thought......

Why? Its makes absolutely no difference to who he is and what he can achieve.

Fancy names and titles are just another form of elitism. Something we can do with less of in politics. Give someone a fancy title and they start to believe that they are the important one and lose sight of the objectives of government.

[pottery beige]

Originally Posted by xxx000

Nothing wrong with Hanson-Young, she's a smart and compassionate cookie
Muir would struggle to find someone dumber than himself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moJ7j86MyWw

[DJR-351]

Originally Posted by noflac52

Why? Its makes absolutely no difference to who he is and what he can achieve.

Fancy names and titles are just another form of elitism. Something we can do with less of in politics. Give someone a fancy title and they start to believe that they are the important one and lose sight of the objectives of government.

Who was talking about the title....

[noflac52]

Your name is your title!

Bob Hawke was Bob all the way through his career. He didn't start to use Robert to make himself seem more important.

His career success was more about what he did and hopefully Ricky Muir will achieve success by his deeds not a name change for the public.

[Syndrome]

Originally Posted by xxx000

Nothing wrong with Hanson-Young, she's a smart and compassionate cookie

WTF? People like her would end up making this country look like Detroit - ruined beyond repair.

[eaglem]

Originally Posted by xxx000

Nothing wrong with Hanson-Young, she's a smart and compassionate cookie
Muir would struggle to find someone dumber than himself

You said that with your tongue firmly implanted in your cheek............surely!

[DJR-351]

Originally Posted by noflac52

Your name is your title!

Bob Hawke was Bob all the way through his career. He didn't start to use Robert to make himself seem more important.

His career success was more about what he did and hopefully Ricky Muir will achieve success by his deeds not a name change for the public.

Oh FFS! give it a rest sport....

[Bill M]

Originally Posted by cheap

My employees say I'm tough but fair, with a leave no man behind approach. If I have to lynch someone so be it.

Sounds like Sylvester Stallone line from the 80's.

[cheap]

1st day in the senate and our motoring man Ricky doesn't disappoint.

He decides to vote against his "PUP team"

Suggest there be a national campaign to help buy Ricky a clue

[Trevor 57]

No, it sounds to me he voted with his conscious not what others want to, good on him

[cheap]

Originally Posted by Trevor 57

No, it sounds to me he voted with his conscious not what others want to, good on him

Except that the repeal bills got through second time round, it was a complete waste of time money and effort. Onya Ricky!

[jpblue1000]

Originally Posted by cheap

1st day in the senate and our motoring man Ricky doesn't disappoint.

He decides to vote against his "PUP team"

Suggest there be a national campaign to help buy Ricky a clue

Highly unfair.
In one instance he voted against a gag on debate which would have seen laws passed without due review by the senate, irrespective of what that law might be.
Secondly he is MEP not PUP irrespective of coalition'ing. there have been and will be many meembers of all sides of parliament crossing the floor to express the belief support the best interests of their constituents. Many a time the nationals and Liberals have voted against the 'coalition party line"
In fact
In a later vote on an amendment moved by Senator Xenophon, pushing for a review of the rules for setting electricity prices, Queensland LNP Senator Ian Macdonald crossed the floor to vote with the Greens and Labor.



JP

[Davehoos]

coalition pollies often vote with the crossbench. those that are retiring or after getting party line numbers secured. Plenty of labor polies run anti party views.

Coalition is a very broad church with some wets and nationals being more left than the green.

[jpblue1000]

Originally Posted by cheap

Except that the repeal bills got through second time round, it was a complete waste of time money and effort. Onya Ricky!

Did they?

JP

[Crazy Dazz]

Sure, lets all make fun of Ricky Muir.

The scenario whereby a complete nobody who got 17 votes from his family gets elected to parliament is a joke, we almost had a similar situation over here with the sports party candidate.
BUT, lets not forget that it was this same system that allowed the Gay Vegan Fruit-Bats (aka "the Greens") to get a foothold in parliament, along with the Democrats(sic) before them. NOW they are regarded as a legitimate force, but imagine how quickly they would have fizzled without this system?
The left side of politics has benefited for decades by having those wallies controlling the balance of power in the senate. Now, for once, we have a senate that leans to the right and suddenly it's the crime of the century???

NB: Clive Palmer maybe a few snags short of a barbie, but he must have been smart enough to make those billions. I'd rather have him running the senate than someone like Batshit Bob Brown.

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by Crazy Dazz

NB: Clive Palmer maybe a few snags short of a barbie, but he must have been smart enough to make those billions. I'd rather have him running the senate than someone like Batshit Bob Brown.

The only problem with the right is that they're only concerned about $$$, and thats $$$ in their own pockets, the difference between running a sucessful business and running a country is that a country is a living breathing thing made up of all kinds of people.

The whole idea of government is for order, looking after and serving its people, not trying to have the highest black number in the books but hurt everyone in the process getting there.

Especially where they start hurting the people at the bottom more than the ones at the top.

The left isn't perfect either though but the current form of the LNP seems on the far to extreme right, rather than center right like they claim.

The new senate is good, we've got a good cross section of every day people in there all of a sudden, rather than polished, mind washed trained politicians from both sides of the coin.

Is that why everyone hates Ricky Muir because he is your average person? Would you rather your brain washed, polished and worded up up, two-faced professional politician deciding for you on party ideology? Or someone who is like the rest of us?

I'd rather independants having the balance of power because then there has to be negotiation rather than one side passing what they want based on their ideologies.

The joke is on us, ladies and gentlemen as we let the professional politicians fool us.

[noflac52]

Originally Posted by DJR-351

Oh FFS! give it a rest sport....

Same same!!!!!!!!

You asked the question I just answered it sport!!!

[noflac52]

Originally Posted by cheap

Except that the repeal bills got through second time round, it was a complete waste of time money and effort. Onya Ricky!

So what you are saying is: If the subject you are voting on looks like being defeated you just give up and vote the other way regardless of what you believe in?

That's not the kind of politician who would get my support.

[Syndrome]

I thought politics were not allowed to be discussed on this forum.

[marty351]

careful Big Damo, those polished pollies are trying to plant fairy seeds in the gardens of normal people. But like the democraps, I hope the greens will eventually be seen for what they are.

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by Syndrome

I thought politics were not allowed to be discussed on this forum.

Yeah and its a Ford forum too and we seem to talk about Holden a lot here.

Meh, mixes it up a bit I reckon, Ricky Muir is related to "automotive discussion".