than this of Julia and her Romeo
It is a story of two star-crossed lovers destined never to find true togetherness. Their ardour is stranded on opposite sides of the political divide.
Julia is a child of the Australian Labor Party, a pantheon of power-brokers who hate neo-liberals.
Romeo is the scion of neo-liberalism in the Liberal Party whose policy has always been to abhor women who talk like an AFL commentator from the western suburbs of Melbourne.
Romeo and Julia seem drawn together in an animal sort of way probably because they’re both pollcats.
These political soulmates both think Kevin and Malcolm are a couple of global warming wankers, both agree with the asylum seeker old testament according to John Howard and are at one in the view that political correctness was invented in a vain attempt to persuade people to take the Greens seriously.
In parliament it seems Romeo’s always with the ayes and Julia’s always behind the nose. Romeo would never join a union even with Julia and she would never contemplate getting down to business in his company.
Julia’s appalling track record in choosing men is matched by her inspirational record in dumping them.
She fell deeply in love with Mark Latham until she discovered he was an underdone fruitcake and comprehensively baked him.
Then she totally submerged herself in support of water-walking Kevin but when he sprang a few leaks she got her head above water far enough to sink him and discover she was the only fish in the sea.
Romeo still fantasises that one day he and Julia will be politically compatible but commentators believe that even if she puts him to her bedroom cabinet she’ll keep him locked in.
With Julia on the left side and Romeo on the right its difficult to see how they can get a bit on either side.
And soon they will be seriously shafting each other in a federal election.
When she calls him ‘a liar in lycra’ and he calls her ‘ten pound pom who’s not worth two bob’ how could they possibly respect each other in the morning?
If Julia loses the election she’ll be at the mercy of the power-brokers who’ll probably replace her with Wayne or Stephen somebody or other.
If Romeo loses he will probably retire to Manly to contemplate what might have been.
It is the East and Julia is the sun.
The Senate and the House of Representatives remain implacably opposed to any rapprochement between the two in case they develop a coalition for each other.
A plague o’ both your houses.
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