Andrew Bolt has the shits

I left Australia five weeks ago, sick of writing of every fresh example of the Albanese government turning a fine country into a poor and divided one.

Maybe seeing some European countries would make me better appreciate my own.

Ha! I’ve instead come back not just disliking this government, but despising it.

Distance has made even clearer how childishly stupid, blind and dishonest it is.

For instance, I was in France and Belgium when Anthony Albanese’s ministers attacked the Coalition’s plan for nuclear power by posting pictures of three-eyed fish and a koala.

Anyone in France or Belgium would have laughed at them.

You see, I had lunches there in nuclear-powered restaurants and toured nuclear-powered museums because France gets 60 per cent of its electricity from nuclear energy, and Belgium nearly 50.

Yet not once did I see there some mutant beast with three eyes. I couldn’t even find a squirrel with a squint.

Are Albanese’s ministers really morons who think nuclear power will turn our wildlife into freaks, or are they just liars?

I’m guessing liars, because Albanese defended this scare campaign by telling journalists to “lighten up”, as if lying about something as grave as fixing our failing power supplies is just a joke.

Should I also “lighten up” about other lies his government told while I was away?

Just last week, I checked the news from home to find Australia’s inflation was now worse than that of any of the five countries I was visiting.

Yes, another Albo lie exposed.

Remember Treasurer Jim Chalmers claiming to invent a new “values-based capitalism” so that the government’s vast spending was actually just an “investment”, and not inflationary?

False again, and inflation now eats our savings and bloats our bills.

Worst was the government still insisting during my trip there’s a “climate crisis” and to supposedly save us from floods and droughts it will cut our net emissions to zero.

Even more amazingly, it will work this miracle, achieved nowhere on Earth, without using zero-emissions nuclear power.

Except I was reading this nonsense in a continent that’s learning how disastrous the net-zero fantasy really is.

In Germany, the economy has been smashed by high power prices.

In Britain, the government is ditching many net zero policies to cut the cost of living.

In France, a tour guide moaned to me how the lovely landscape of Provence was being scarred by wind farms.

Yet here, our Australian Energy Market Operator has just doubled down and warned Australians need six times more of these monsters – a target the government insists upon.

And see how this crazy government lies to cover up this stupidity.

Energy Minister Chris Bowen still claims wind and solar is the “cheapest” power, even as soaring power prices again proved him wrong, last week pushing up inflation.

In Europe, too, countries like Denmark – hooked on wind power – pay high prices.

In Rome I got another reminder of our government’s idiocy. Our hotel explained it was banned by law from supplying aircon until July 1, even in a heatwave, because Italy was running out of gas. The Ukraine war, and all that.

t’s one thing for Italy to be short of energy, but it’s criminal that Australia is, too, when – unlike Italy – we have mountains of coal and uranium, and oceans of oil and gas, all now treated like poison.

Yet another example: everywhere in Europe people are now voting against mass immigration. Yet no European country has – pro rata – anything like Australia’s immigration levels. Albanese added 2 per cent of our population in one year, making homes unaffordable for the young.

So how can it be that this blessed country is now getting poorer per person, quarter after quarter, for more than a year, now

As a tourist, I could recognise the problem. That’s what you get from a government of tourists who’d rather cruise than dig deep. Who’d rather strike a pose than do the hard yards.

Look at Albanese the other day, taking a selfie with a couple of young rock bands, and then giving a hero’s welcome to Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks “whistleblower” he helped free from a British jail.

Albanese even had both our US ambassador, Kevin Rudd, and our high commissioner to Britain, Stephen Smith, accompany Assange all the way to Australia in a private jet. All this backslapping over an egomaniac who was originally a fugitive from rape charges laid in Sweden (Assange insists he was innocent.)

And so we decline.

Decline we do Mr Bolt into a world no one has is prepared for. We are phucked

calli

Greetings from Dubrovnik! Hot as Hades and full as a goog. 

We were ripped off for cool drinks and jostled and elbowed from one end of town to the other.

We stayed there for a week in 2017.
I have two photos taken from the same spot in town.
The first, taken at midday is as you describe.
The second was taken at about 9:30 pm after dinner and the street was totally deserted.
The old town is not massive. They need to cut back on cruise ship numbers.