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Howls shatter sense of entitlement

Sunday 1 June 2008, 10:38 am

The Editor

Categories: Politics

Tags: AlexanderDowner, leadership, LiberalParty

Alexander Downer recalls the morning after the night before.

“I remember the day after the election when Peter Costello made his announcement and my wife and some of my children, we were watching this announcement on television,” Mr Downer told the Nine Network.

“And somebody asked would I be interested in the job and the children all in unison howled out: ‘Don’t go anywhere near it Dad!’”

What he forgot to tell Channel Nine is that he also clearly heard the screams of 20 million Australians howling out in unison: “Noooooooo!”

7 Comments

Wah (Sunday 1 June 2008, 10:54 am) #

That interview seemed like a job interview for the poncy prick.
Mikey (Sunday 1 June 2008, 11:19 am) #

I think that cry out probably distorted the space time continuum.

As an aside what’s the bet Downer starts name dropping himself.

‘I was present with Australia’s longest serving and critically acclaimed former foreign minister, Alexander Downer, and we discussed how pretty I am in the mirror’ etc.
Phill (Sunday 1 June 2008, 3:49 pm) #

Alexander Downer= Billy Bunter with a bent pea shooter, my God what a FOP! How this man, and I use that term loosely, was voted into office will have the intellectuals baffled for a hundred years.

This man even makes John Howard look like Conan the Barbarian.When will this madness end?
Krypto (Sunday 1 June 2008, 4:23 pm) #

um, not real good at history are those Libs? Downer had his shot, back in the halcyon days of “Dr” John “I worked jowwy haad for my fewawi” Hewson.
He was even more of a burke in the leadership role than he was as either a foreign minister or a grandstanding opposition back bencher.

Still, there is cause for some celebration, apparently even Downer’s own children despise him.
Perhaps he and Phillip Ruddock can start a club.
brokenleftleg (Sunday 1 June 2008, 9:50 pm) #

“Don’t go anywhere near it Dad!”
Those Downer kids are smart.
They could see the impending disaster for the Libs!
brerrabbit (Monday 2 June 2008, 8:08 am) #

It’s a reflex action on the part of the Downer kids - they’re used to saying it in the following circumstances -

* when he goes near anything that’s broken;
* when he goes near anything that isn’t;
* when he picks up the TV remote, tries to send an email, tries to play a DVD or set his watch;
* when he goes near any electrical equipment;
* when he LOOKS like he might think about using a power tool.

That’s why they want him to stay in Parliament, where the grownups look after him so nicely.
Bridgit Gread (Monday 2 June 2008, 1:23 pm) #

Downer’s kids are pretty smart: the daughter won a prestigious Chevening Scholarship to study at LSE… with a third-class honours degree. Then naturally she got a gig at DFAT.