Thread by @ellymelly

#PMLive interview with @ScottMorrisonMP:

1. "Our economy is one of the strongest in the world."
...except for the trillion dollars of debt?

2. "Labor took the defence spending down."
...sure, but #Liberals spent a fortune on the wrong things. You can't just count the dollars on defence and say 'Australia is protected'. Where are the questions about the serious defence failures leaving us more unprepared than ever?

3. "I've stood up for our freedoms in our part of the world."
...so weird. I don't remember #Scomo protecting a single Australian worker from #Covid19 mandates that cost them their jobs - or any point in time where he scorned Premiers for enacting undemocratic emergency powers.

4. "I've stood up to the Big Tech companies."
...no, you bullied them into paying your MSM media friends, but when it came to citizen censorship, you assisted Silicon Valley in silencing the voices of ordinary citizens who objected to harmful policies and politicians.

5. "Standing up to the terrible things that happen to women on social media."
...so why was the official @LiberalAus response to a Branch President defaming and harassing a woman online to say 'not our problem' in response to an official complaint? Ah, @ScottMorrisonMP?

6. "Have you heard #BuildBackBetter? I have a real problem with this."
...no, you don't. You endorsed 'BuildBackBetter' until social media polling revealed that it was deeply unpopular with conservative voters. The #WEF remains directly quoted in Liberal Policy.

7. "Australia doesn't want government in the centre of our lives, telling us what to do."
...so why is the Liberal Party pushing Digital Identity legislation that inserts government in the middle of EVERY consumer interaction in the private sector as a Big Daddy overlord?

8. "I don't see the pandemic as an opportunity to invite government into your lives for the rest of eternity."
...apart from our Digital Identity legislation, Vaccine Passports, permanent #Covid19 booster programs, state-vaccine mandates, mask-wearing health orders...

9. "Dams are hard to build in this country because of environmental regulations that sit around them."
...um, Scomo, you're Prime Minister of a party that has been in power since 2013. FIX THE REGULATION.

10. "When I became Prime Minister I was dealing with droughts, now I'm dealing with floods."
...someone give the man the memo about 'droughts and flooding rains'. 🙄

11. "We have less debt, and more #Jabs." -#scomo
...urgh I think I'm going to be sick.

12. Q: "Do you support the coal industry?"
A: "The short answer to the question is yes, particularly #coal. We want our coal power stations to run for as long as they possibly can."
...so why did a Lib gov allow Eraring, the largest plant, to be bought by an activist for closure?

13: "No powers were handed to them [the state premiers during the pandemic] - they've always had those powers."
...except for the special emergency powers drafted in states & passed without sufficient scrutiny, particularly in #Victoria which lawyers described as a dictatorship.

14: "As a Prime Minister, you don't get to change the rules to suit yourself. You have to work to the rules that are there."
...except when National Cabinet was declared 'not a real Cabinet' & open to Freedom of Information requests so you wrote/passed policy to change the rules.

15: "You would not have heard about the times we [state premiers, chief health officers & the PM] agreed in National Cabinet."
...Funny that. Might have something to do with you drafting special secrecy laws to keep the discussions of National Cabinet a secret forever?

16: "At National Cabinet, we can make decisions at leader level and have them flow back down into bureaucracy."
...also Scomo 'I have no control over vaccine mandates or health orders put up by the states. Not my problem.'

17: "Those Quiet Australians haven't been making a lot of noise over the last three years. They've just been dealing with it."
...did the Prime Minister miss the largest protest in Canberra's history full of LOUD Quiet Australians yelling, 'SACK THEM ALL' outside your office?

Audience: *sits there while Scomo talks about how brilliant a university is that he opened when he was asked about the high demand of electric vehicles plugging in at night when there is next to no power.*

18: Frustrated audience member: *re-asks questions*
#Scomo: "We want to see replacement for reliable affordable capacity. We problem solve to deal with those issues but our preference is for private companies to replace it with reliable affordable energy."
...what a non-answer.🧐

19: "Federal elections are always close. They're ALWAYS CLOSE."
...except when they're 'landslides' I guess.

I can't watch any more of this.