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TODAY IS THE first day of campaigning for the upcoming Australian election.
One person out on the campaign trail was Jaymes Diaz, a Liberal Party candidate for the Greenway district, a northeastern suburb of Sydney.
The Liberal Party is Australia’s center-right party, and Diaz is hoping to take the seat from incumbent MP Michelle Rowland, a representative of the center left Labor Party.
Diaz had a very bad day.
Below you can watch an interview between Diaz and John Hill, a reporter with Australia’s Channel 10.
via NewsBlog/Youtube
Asked about the issue of asylum-seekers arriving by boat, Diaz told the reporter that his party had a six point plan to deal with what he described as a problem created by Labor.
Unfortunately, he was unable to describe a single part of this plan, despite being asked multiple times.
This wasn’t the only gaffe. Diaz was clearly stumped when the reporter said that a paid parental leave scheme proposed by his party relied on a corporate tax increase, and a party handler stepped in to stop the interview.
This unedited version of the video (embedded below) reveals just how awkward the exchange was. Between 3.30 and 4.30, Diaz is asked eight times by the reporter to name the other points in the asylum-seekers plan (at one point even the stoic Liberal Party supporter behind him appears to be holding back laughter).
Later, as Diaz walks away, the interview ended prematurely, he says meekly, “we support families.”
via ten/Youtube
The video has already gone viral in Australia, and The Australian notes that Rowland’s press team had uploaded it to YouTube less than an hour after it first aired.
- Adam Taylor
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The most apposite satirical programme for British political events in the aftermath of Brexit is actually the most timeless of them all: ‘Yes, Minister’. There should be re-runs of ‘Yes, Minister’ on RTE and the BBC (or Virgin Media and Gold) right now.
It encapsulates the attitudes and mentality of all the players, even today, so well. From a prime minister who only wants to survive and who has been captured by the civil service; to prominent backbenchers who are pretending to be acting only on principle, but in reality have fuelled opposition to the only deal that would actually take the UK out of the European Union just to further their own ambitions to enter 10 Downing Street.
@J. Reid: Sir Humphrey makes a great case to leave the EU though…
Sounds brilliant. Break a leg with it.
In fairness I post a lot of crap must the time, but I strongly think we can all agree that 99.9% of politicians pretty much has their own personal agenda behind every piece of crap that comes out of their mouths , they don’t really fight for the People
Thanks for bringing that show to our attention, I will be sure to avoid it
All politicians only ever speak a “load of cock and bull”, to clarify, how do you know when a politician lies? (S)he opens their mouth to speak.
Take the word British out of your article headline …….. now you’ve got a show !
If you believe a word that comes out of any politicians mouth, more fool you. The entire political system, in Ireland, the Uk and US was built for a horse and cart economy. We are living in a new world now. Time for a new system!
Cock. That is all.
@Arthur Pewty: What about Leo, it mentions Irish politicians too and he talks sense most of the time
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