Sometimes your country elects a conservative government, and you decide to voice your concerns in a peaceful manner by taking up taking to the streets with hundreds of your fellow concerned citizens in a glorious, calm protest against policies that you feel don’t represent your own voice as a member of the voting public. And then sometimes you go “screw it” and crash your car into the Prime Minister’s house.
At about 8am this morning, an elderly man rammed his car into the fence surrounding The Lodge, the Prime Minister’s official Canberra residence. The man was taken to hospital with minor injuries. Though it was an accident, it’s now pretty much guaranteed that swathes of Abbott’s opponents nationwide are now all thinking “Well, why the hell didn’t I think of that?”
Firefighters are currently at the scene attempting to stabilise the concrete fence and prevent it from crumbling, which is a delightful little visual metaphor for his first few months in Government. Fortunately (depending on how you look at it) nobody was home at the time. The Lodge is currently undergoing major renovations, and Tony Abbott prefers to stay at the Australian Federal Police barracks when in Canberra, surrounded by his security detail, presumably to protect him from some sort of Red Dawn situation. So when a group of plucky young teens manages to save the country from a communist invasion, at least we’ll be safe in the knowledge that Tony’s been tucked safely away and will live to lead the country into another new day.
Prime Minister Abbott is yet to comment on the situation, though it’s fair to assume that he’ll soon announce a political campaign based on stopping the cars. After which the opposition will dismiss the whole situation as a car crash of farcical proportions.
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