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Our government is a joke.
Our president is seen cheating on his girlfriend while on a damn SCOOTER, No one has been to that stupid Waterloo thing because... ! well because it's obvious and our Prime Minister take the government jet to go to a stupid MATCH with the money the country didn't even have. How old are they ? 5 ?
It's not a big deal but it's ridiculous.
Regarding the Valls case, there are a few shades of grey in there. To me, it's not clear-cut.
He went to Berlin to meet with Michel Platini, the president of UEFA.
UEFA is based in Nyon, Switzerland so presumably he could have met with Platini there instead of Berlin, which would have required Valls to fly to Geneva or Lausanne I guess.
But he flew to meet him in Berlin instead, and he got to take in the game as well...
The spiders, bugs and flies.
Tony Abbott saying "stop the boats" literally every 30 seconds. Seriously shut the **** up.
Tony Abbott in general. The above thing really needed its own category.
Too far away from other countries, apart from NZ.
Regarding the Valls case, there are a few shades of grey in there. To me, it's not clear-cut.
He went to Berlin to meet with Michel Platini, the president of UEFA.
UEFA is based in Nyon, Switzerland so presumably he could have met with Platini there instead of Berlin, which would have required Valls to fly to Geneva or Lausanne I guess.
But he flew to meet him in Berlin instead, and he got to take in the game as well...
Yeah, obviously it's not a huge deal, it didn't cost that much. But still, I understand why the French feel betrayed. I mean, that guy earns a ****load of money and he still thinks that it's okay to use tax money for his own adventures abroad, because "no one will notice anyway".
Pretty similar to our Minister of Defense, who thought that it's okay to go on vacation to southern France and South Tyrol with his official car and driver that get paid by the taxpayer (officially a military vehicle; a BMW 7 series, though ).
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Our government is a joke.
Our president is seen cheating on his girlfriend while on a damn SCOOTER, No one has been to that stupid Waterloo thing because... ! well because it's obvious and our Prime Minister take the government jet to go to a stupid MATCH with the money the country didn't even have. How old are they ? 5 ?
It's not a big deal but it's ridiculous.
Viribusunitis, thank you again.
Obviously everybody hates their government, we actually have had some similar **** recently. One of the county governors recently has traveled to China with his parade of skanks(ie his employees) for "field studies", whatever that means, which is not really a big deal normally, but that specific county is ****ing broke that the public staff working in the county government couldn't even get paid.
Heads fall so easily here in politics, so it has pretty much ended stuff like the French example. Of course corruption exists hidden in the shadows, but top politicans are so much under the radar that they would be forced to resign if caught.
Not a lot to gripe about in Australia I don't think. I would probably nominate cost of living - a trip to just about any other city in the world demonstrates this when we travel. The level of political debate is also pretty dismal.
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