Has Clive Palmer gone loco?

Julia · 26 July 2014

No, I did not mean atypical. Mr Pyne's accent is typical of SA. Another example is Amanda Vanstone.
The SA is tending to be similar in some words to the NZ accent.

Nothing to do with liking him or otherwise.

I was responding to someone, I think Knobby, suggesting Mr Pyne speaks as he does as a result of his having had tertiary education. You don't have to think very hard to realise that's a less than reasonable suggestion.

SirRumpole · 26 July 2014

Julia said:
Mr Pyne's accent is typical of SA.

Alexander Downer comers to mind too as having a similar accent to Pyne.

I never really thought you could pick a South Australian from other States by their accents, but perhaps I'm just not tuned in enough.

noco · 26 July 2014

Pup senators might find themselves in hot water if the Chinese claim is upheld in the court.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...cost-pup-members/story-fn59niix-1227002020292

drsmith · 26 July 2014

noco said:
Pup senators might find themselves in hot water if the Chinese claim is upheld in the court.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...cost-pup-members/story-fn59niix-1227002020292

Jacqui Lambie might have to make wealth the number 1 priority above all else with any potential suitor.

A trip down to Essential Beauty though might still be wise investment.

noco · 26 July 2014

drsmith said:
Jacqui Lambie might have to make wealth the number 1 priority above all else with any potential suitor.

A trip down to Essential Beauty though might still be wise investment.

She is obviously sitting on a gold mine and may have to use it with a well endowed young man with plenty of money.

Julia · 26 July 2014

SirRumpole said:
Alexander Downer comers to mind too as having a similar accent to Pyne.

Yes, true. I'd forgotten about Mr Downer.

Knobby22 · 28 July 2014

Julia said:
I was responding to someone, I think Knobby, suggesting Mr Pyne speaks as he does as a result of his having had tertiary education. You don't have to think very hard to realise that's a less than reasonable suggestion.

No not so much tertiary, more private education. I know plenty of Adelaide people and they don't talk like him. I think the effect is strongest where the children actually live at the school. Alexander Downer went to Geelong Grammar a very exclusive boarding school (where Prince Charles went) and was also educated in England. Chris Pyne was educated only in Adelaide at a Co-ed Catholic school so I'm not sure how his accent got so strong. He was a big protÃ©gÃ© of Downer though. Still is, even pushing the SA Libs to make Downer their new leader.

Some schools have a way of speaking. Raff Epstein on ABC drive Melbourne and John Safran also sound very similar (and a bit weird) as they went to the same Jewish school.

It's a quite interesting effect. My previous neighbours had their girls go to an exclusive girls private school and I swear they started to sound more and more like Chris Lillee's "Jamie" the longer they were there.

I agree there is a SA accent also.

noco · 13 August 2014

I think the wheels are starting to fall off the PUP pollie machine.....hail Clive the dictator.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...piece-candidates/story-fnihsr9v-1227022265366

noco · 16 August 2014

What is it with this big bag of wind?.....He certainly wants to throw his weight around......He has no economic policy....he is not interested in getting the nation back on it's feet and his true colours are starting to show......his intentions are very vindictive with one aim to bring down the LNP in Queensland and the Federal coalition....he will eventually get his just deserts.

The Palmer United Party is fast becoming the Palmer Disunited Party......Perhaps he should rename it the Palmer Family Party.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...mime-nearly-over/story-fnihsr9v-1227025983977

Bintang · 16 August 2014

He should rename the party to: Palmer United Family Farce. PUFF

noco · 19 August 2014

I think our Clive has gone loco.

Can you just imagine the news headlines in September 2016.

CLIVE PALMER BECOMES PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA

News paper headlines October 2016.

AUSTRALIA HAS DECLARED WW111 ON CHINA.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...-shoot-their-own/story-fn59nm2j-1227028702993

Julia · 19 August 2014

A few more intemperate outbursts like this might gradually wake up some of the Palmer fans.

SirRumpole · 19 August 2014

Julia said:
A few more intemperate outbursts like this might gradually wake up some of the Palmer fans.

Maybe so, the other side is that the Chinese are not easy to deal with.

An authoritarian government controlling State owned enterprises can virtually write their own tickets as to what they want, and make their own rules.

Palmer went completely off the deep end on Q&A, but I get the feeling that some of what he said is rooted in bitter experience.

drsmith · 19 August 2014

The only experience Uncle Clive likes is getting his own way and if he doesn't get it, he's just like Uncle Psycho.

He could fill that vacancy in the ALP but they're perhaps not quiet ready for another Uncle Psycho yet.

Craton · 19 August 2014

Without needing to dot point all his machinations all I can say is that yep, I'm more convinced than ever that Uncle Clive has gone loco.

drsmith · 19 August 2014

Jacquie Lambie would prefer it not to be a Chinese manufactured whipper snipper,

But as outrage grew over the comments PUP Senator Jacqui Lambie backed her leader, issuing a statement in which she said she strongly supported the "general point that Clive made about Communist China's military capacity and threat to Australia".

"If anybody thinks that we should have a national security and defence policy which ignores the threat of a Chinese Communist invasion - you're delusional and got rocks in your head.

"The Communist Chinese military capacity and level of threat to the western world democracies is at an unprecedented and historical high.

"Clive's political critics like Barnaby Joyce have forgotten that the Chinese Navy, in an unprecedented show of military strength, recently sailed their ships unannounced through SE Asia and close to Australian territorial waters.

"Today China is controlled by an aggressive, anti-democratic, totalitarian government. We need to double the size and capacity of our military right now.

"Both Labor and the Liberals/Nationals have failed to build an Australian military that is able to defend us - and stop our grandchildren from becoming slaves to an aggressive, anti-democratic totalitarian foreign power."

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/24751653/palmer-slammed-over-china-tirade/

Interesting in the context that Uncle Clive this morning is trying (to some extent at least) to hose down his comments from last night,

My #qanda comments not intended to refer to Chinese people but to Chinese company which is taking Australian resources & not paying

https://twitter.com/CliveFPalmer/status/501511626550304768

crypto · 19 August 2014

And people voted for these muppets.

We're doomed

drsmith · 19 August 2014

PUP-pet Senator Dio Wang also comes to Uncle Clive's defence,

WA's China-born PUP Senator Dio Wang today defended his leader, claiming Mr Palmer was provoked into making the comments.

"From personal experience I have found Clive to be consistently respectful and supportive throughout our relationship in both the private sector and now in the political arena," he said.

"There has never been the slightest suggestion on his part of a prejudicial view of member of the Chinese community."

Mr Wang said Mr Palmer's remarks were directed at certain enterprises and not individuals.

"I would not have been endorsed twice as the lead Western Australia senate candidate if the party leader did not genuinely value the Chinese people," he said.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/24751653/palmer-slammed-over-china-tirade/

crypto said:
And people voted for these muppets.

We're doomed

Occasionally, we see the real Clive punch through the veneer of media savvy charismatic Clive and that's what we saw on display again last night.

It's something I suspect we'll see more of as time goes by.

Garpal Gumnut · 19 August 2014

Julia said:
A few more intemperate outbursts like this might gradually wake up some of the Palmer fans.

crypto said:
And people voted for these muppets.

We're doomed

drsmith said:
PUP-pet Senator Dio Wang also comes to Uncle Clive's defence,

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/24751653/palmer-slammed-over-china-tirade/

Occasionally, we see the real Clive punch through the veneer of media savvy charismatic Clive and that's what we saw on display again last night.

It's something I suspect we'll see more of as time goes by.

Clive is a buffoon. His investors at Coolum have been beset by expensive litigation because of Clive's inability to accept the umpire's decision. His litigation with CITIC will harm our exports.

gg

drsmith · 19 August 2014

He's unrepentant,

When asked if he stood by his use of the term 'mongrel' to describe Australia's largest trading partner, Mr Palmer said it was 'an accurate reflection' of a government that executed its own people.

'They have one-day trials, they don't have any democracy,' he told Fairfax radio station 3AW on Tuesday.'

I feel for the Chinese people that live under such tyranny.

http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2014/08/19/china-hits-back-at-clive-palmer-over-rant.html

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