The blighters were just playing games when they checked Tony Crook’s intentions.
What was the point of that? Just to prove that they are the big boys now? No one in the playground is going to push them around, cause it’s their turn to do the pushing?
Based on their performance over the last week, these guys will be holding the country to ransom for as long as this dismal government lasts.
I wasn’t fond of the title ‘The Three Amigos.’
But maybe it is not so inappropriate. In the film of that name, the three amigos were really three complete drongos, pretend cowboys in flashy outfits, who were so dumb they thought ‘infamous’ meant really, really famous.
Maybe our three amigos thought the same thing. Except that now it’s the two amigos, Max Hatter having decided to go it on his own and support the Coalition.
Except that a better title would be ‘tushki.’
It sounds like it should mean ‘little arse,’ and that would be appropriate too, but it doesn’t
In February of Viktor Yanukovych won the Ukrainian presidential election with the smallest possible margin, and the support of probably about a third of Ukrainians.
Following that election, 16 parliamentary delegates deserted their own party, and the people who had voted for them, to enable Yanukovych to form government.
They have become known as the tushki. It is a Russian word, used as an insult. It means ‘roadkill.’
As the German political scientist Andreas Umland noted in late March in the Kyiv Post, “Ukraine is now less democratic than it was. . . . With their change of allegiance the tushki have grossly misrepresented the preferences of the Ukrainian voters.”
Welcome to the new Australia.
