…that I’ve gotten things terribly wong!

Like a drunk standing up at their first AA meeting, I have a confession that simply must be shared with my reader.

More or less addicted to being a Labor supporter most of my adult life, I’m now very ashamed that I did just that at the polling booth the other day.

For several sound reasons, in the weeks leading up to last Saturday, I had more or less committed myself to giving the Greens candidate my tick of approval, the main one being that the Greens were nowhere near as inclined as Labor to crawl up Zionist arseholes over the genocide being committed in Gaza by baby murderer Bibi Netanyahu.

Second, The Greens were dead set against AUKUS nuclear subs while Richard Marles’s shoes were about the only thing poking out of Donald Trump’s flabby, orange, seeping arse on that issue.

Pretty good reasons, right, to see Green rather than Red as my pencil hovered over the ballot paper?

But then my desire to see the LNP absolutely slaughtered for running the shittiest, most offensive, laziest campaign I’ve ever had the pleasure to watch in more than a half-century’s interest in politics saw me reluctantly put the number one in the Labor lady’s box. I might have to rephrase that.

Well, there was another reason; my lovely niece who drove me to the polling booth would probably not talk to me again if I hadn’t done the right thing.

So, if my reader has made it this far, why this overwhelming feeling that I fucked my vote up well and truly?

Apparently, Penny Wong has once again used the excuse of the tyranny of distance to claim she can’t really express a solidly-based opinion on what’s happening in so, so, far away Gaza.

Penny! Penny! Penny! You dreadful wretched piece of work. You can’t see that Israel is hellbent on continuing to blow women and kids to bits in very large numbers because Hamas won’t release hostages, most of whom are most likely dead? And that it’s okay for Israel to continue razing Gaza on the pretence it needs to finally defeat a fighting force that any reasonable, well-equipped military could have achieved in months if that had really been their aim all along.

The Bug and your ranter-in-residence have slammed Penny “I believe in a two-state solution” for months for her shameful inability to see clearly what is happening in the Palestinian enclave. Israel’s intentions have been crystal clear since its tanks rolled into Gaza and the bombs started blowing up innocent citizens in their tens of thousands just after October 7, 2023.

Penny might lack the balls to do the right thing but Labor generally has disgusted me with their inability to roundly condemn Israel’s genocide in Gaza so why the fucking hell did I weaken and give them my vote? Especially since a mate of mine who is arguably Australia’s most accurate amateur psephologist told me Labor was going to win by a landslide and my protest vote would have done no damage at all?

I should have let Labor know how I feel about them on some very important issues but especially the genocide in Gaza. I didn’t and for that, I am so, so, fucking sorry!

Don Gordon-Brown

PS: Now that Mark Dreyfus has been shunted from the Labor cabinet, can I just express my hope that he resigns in protest but as a parting gift, Albanese makes him our Ambassador to Israel?

But this hope comes with just the one proviso: that our embassy there be shifted to one of those highly flammable tent cities in Gaza where Palestinians have sought refuge as they are being deliberately starved to death as a wicked final solution and western nations look the other way.

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