Joe Hockey, master of political nuance that he is, threw a wrench in the Howard, “The unions are coming to eat your children” scare campaign by calling them, “irrelevant” and describing their role as “essentially over“.
Gradually they’ve been falling and most dramatically even under Keating and now they’re just down to 20 per cent,” he said.
One in five workers are choosing to join the unions.
“Now unions have an important safety role in some industries but overall Australians are choosing not join the unions because they see them as irrelevant to their lives.
Now in an attempt to salvage the narrative Howard enunciated:
Unions have a legitimate and proper role in our society
We are not anti-union, we are anti union control, we are anti union domination, we are anti unions having a monopoly role in the workplace, but unions have a legitimate place in our society, always have. It’s just they shouldn’t run the place.
We’re not against the notion of a union just the idea of it affecting any actual change or policy. Y’know ‘control’. That belongs as a birth right to the free marketeers.
Now Joe -I’m a big teddy bear- Hockey explained further:
Given that the unions now only represent 15 per cent of the private sector workforce, yet under Kevin Rudd they would be 70 per cent of his ministry, I absolutely stand by those comments.
Just like our African refugee intake used to be 70 percent, for the year 07-08 it will be zero perecent. So the plight of African refugee’s is now irrelevant to a modern Australia.
Let’s take a look at the party of the people. In touch with the mythical ‘working family’.
My god, have you ever seen a more representative bunch of people. They’ve got Australian diversity written all over them don’t they? This is the party of inept creepy white men isn’t it?
I don’t think the ALP is any better but let’s follow Joe -I’ve never been too good at- Hockey’s argument.
Howard’s Minions:
100% White Bread
13% Women 87% Men
3% Vampire (Phillip Ruddock)
3% Gollum (Kevin Andrews)
So if you’re a white, male, possibly undead voter who doesn’t give a stuff about workplace fairness, investment in education and thinks that climate change is a hoax, then the Liberal Party is for you.
But if in doubt, there is one statistic which can easily confirm your membership:
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