On his DIY video network CBTV (“commonsense lives here”) Coalition Senator Cory Bernardi declares he will “celebrate” asylum seeker boat arrivals by sending Julia Gillard a cake with 196 candles on it, “one for each boat that has arrived illegally on our shores since Ms Gillard took the top job.”
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This guy is such a tool! Nothing more to say here.
I don’t agree – I think it’s worth saying again. This guy is such a tool!
Jimbo, completely correct, but you need to also understand that this is the Coalition’s asylum-seeker policy in action. All we have to do is show this all over the world and nobody in their right mind would want to emigrate to a country where complete drop kicks get elected. Killers and despots, maybe, but not total drop kicks.
For every complex and difficult problem, there’s always a simple answer.
In this case, it’s Cory Bernadi. (And yes, he’s always wrong.)
I think twat comes to mind the more I look at him than tool.
Is that an aslyum seeker (aka human beings for those now de-humanized to the description) boat behind him he has framed on his wall – does he pray to it or just put sticky note reminders on it when he has to remember things