Notorious pandemic leader Dan Andrews has announced his resignation as Premier of the Australian state of Victoria in a shock announcement.
Andrews, who imposed on his state the longest Covid lockdown in the world, said the decision was related to the challenges of the job.
When it’s time, it’s time. It’s not an easy job as Premier of our state. It requires a 100% from you and your family. That of course is time limited and now is the time to step away. The only way that I know how to do this job is to have it consume me. Every waking moment is about work and that takes a toll.
He said he’d made up his mind over the last couple of days and that he’d determined to “go when they’re asking you to stay”.
The Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, who was said to be a “little shocked” by the decision, said Andrews’s leadership was “tested by some of the toughest times” during the pandemic, but credited him for “never shirking the hard decisions” and doing everything in his power to keep Victorians safe.
Towards the end of last year, Australia’s top actuarial body said the “incredibly high” excess deaths in 2022 – 17% above the pre-pandemic average in the first eight months of the year – which were observed across the country including in Victoria, should be urgently investigated by the Government. Australian mortality has been well above average since autumn 2021.
Andrews’s reign was marked by extraordinary brutality meted out by police to ordinary workers and citizens protesting the extreme lockdown conditions he imposed on the state for months on end.
In November 2021, Andrews introduced a mandatory vaccination law affecting one million Australians, requiring those working in jobs on the state’s authorised worker list, such as professional athletes, mining workers and journalists, to be double vaccinated or quit.
Victoria’s strict vaccine regime made global headlines in early 2022 when it resulted in world tennis number one Novak Djokovic being ignominiously ejected from the country over his vaccination status the day before the Australian Open was set to begin.
Andrews at the time had been uncompromising, saying said the media circus could have been avoided if Djokovic had just got vaccinated against COVID-19.
“It’s very simple, just get vaccinated. And then everyone’s time wouldn’t have to be wasted with this,” he said.
However, despite the highly polarising effect these measures had on his state, Andrews comfortably won the 2022 state election in what later become known as a ‘Danslide’.
It has been suggested that Andrews quit once he became eligible for a tribute statue in his honour. Victorian Premiers are entitled to be memorialised in bronze near Melbourne’s Parliament House once they pass 3,000 days in office – a milestone Andrews reached on February 20th.
Ahead of the 2022 election, Sky News commentator Peta Credlin predicted: “Sometime early next year he ends up winning his little statue out the front of the Premier’s office and then he’ll p*** off and leave it to the woman, Jacinta Allan, which will enable them to effectively rebrand themselves.”
Andrews has been rewarded handsomely for his reign of terror. In recent months he secured a 3.5% pay rise, lifting his salary to $481,190 (£255,031) – up more than $16,000 (£8,480) from 2022. For comparison, the U.K. Prime Minister receives around £160,000.
Andrews will also benefit from a historic pension scheme for MPs elected before 2004, which could see him awarded millions upon retirement.
The tyrant is finally gone. But it’s always disappointing when they go out on a high rather than in disgrace for grievously violating their citizens’ rights. It is, sadly, further confirmation that the struggle to prevent authoritarian politicians imposing brutal restrictions on free societies – and getting away with it, being fêted even – is an uphill one that is far from over.
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Was she briefly possessed by the ghost of Enoch Powell? Seemed to be paraphrasing his ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech.
Not sure if this person did something especially bad or just made a ”lesbian nana” type comment.
”British police arrest patriotic Britons who took part in anti-immigration protest in Sunderland. Thoughts?”
https://x.com/EuropeInvasionn/status/1819993048702398670
This is the result of too much multiculturalism, particularly too much Islam importation. Will the police be raiding these psycho’s homes too? I’ve seen the footage of two men with their heads cracked open after they were attacked. I’m sure they’d consider themselves ‘culturally enriched’ today;
”In Stoke a white man is cornered & is given a terrible beating by Muslims.
Later gangs of Muslims were seen with weapons, touring the town looking for other victims.”
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1820005133062644213
Vaguely on topic we’re just now doing a bit of shopping in an area of North London with a large Turkish community, near where we used to live. They are economically successful and I’ve never experienced or heard of racial tensions with them in all the time we used to live here. I don’t think mass immigration of any culture is helpful but we should also recognise that not all cultures are the same and outcomes may depend on a mixture of race, culture and religion.
Agreed, but why is preferential treatment given to young male black sub Saharan Africans with no identification?
Bet you wouldn’t be so keen living next door to them as majority culture?
I’m not “keen” on any of it as I made clear in my previous post. I was merely making an observation based on my personal experience.
As to your question, I think it’s quite plausible to think that sub-Saharan Africa is the place that more people want to get out of than anywhere else – not exactly surprising – and that TPTB merely acquiesce to this as it suits them.
A good point, one problem being is the mass immigration which does not allow for an integration, it introduces a different culture into an existing one with all the inevitable inter-reaction, good and bad. You can welcome one visitor par se, but not to one that could deemed an army of invasion.
I think there are two related but distinct issues. The first is the inevitable disappearance of a distinct English culture and race, both of which are regrettable and tragic if you value cultural and racial diversity. It’s perhaps a bit too subtle for many and is therefore not ringing enough alarm bells (present company excepted). The second is the more acute and headline grabbing issue that subsets of the immigrant population have greater propensity to antisocial behaviour and crime and less willingness or capacity to make a net positive contribution.
Indubitably.
The two are different, but each one, unchecked, can lead to the other, so should not be separated (not in my mind at least). Erosion of British values and culture will encourage an explosion of values and cultures that cannot exist together in harmony. The refusal to integrate inevitably leads to a cultural clash, and a cultural clash inevitably leads to further refusal to integrate. Very much a chicken and egg thing.
Most of us are perfectly happy with a level of migration that benefits the UK – that in itself is a whole other topic however – where the immigrants offer something in return for a home. That, of course, is not what we have anymore. What we have is unrestricted immigration, of which a significant section of is hell-bent on bending us to their will. It’s a perverse inversion of what would happen organically. And there’s it is: what we are experiencing, which results in children being slaughtered by a savage, is nothing like organic. Our masters have been very busy laying the foundations of complete and total subjugation of the people. We let it carry on too long and now their wet dream is within touching distance.
I think I would agree with almost of all that.
“Most of us are perfectly happy with a level of migration that benefits the UK “
It depends what you mean by “benefits”. There are immigrants – individuals and groups – who will contribute economically and be good citizens, and if we have to have it at all, let’s have that sort, but even then the numbers need to be pretty low to avoid erosion of our culture and race. Trouble is, we’ve had so much already, of mainly I would say the wrong sort overall (I don’t mean the majority of immigrants are horrible people in case anyone thinks that’s what I mean), that now it really has to stop dead and even then with the demographics we are onto a loser. Of course, it won’t stop dead – not in our lifetimes anyway.
Nothing I disagree with, hence my disclaimer with respect ‘benefits’.
I guess most of the people who voted for anyone but Reform think that immigration has benefited and will benefit us, or they were asleep when deciding who to vote for. For me along with Nut Zero and Medical Fascism it’s a red line
A lot of Turks in North London are actually Turkish Cypriots or the descendants of Turkish Cypriots who fled here when the Civil War started. They are “fairly British.” If you visit Northern Cyprus, as I have several times, there are obvious echos of British rule still in place.
Yes that makes sense. Lots of Greek Cypriots there too – I’m not aware of major conflicts between the two groups though that may have passed me by.
Oh dear – I have to admit that I wholeheartedly agree with Rachel Reeves! Presumably now she will have observed that the current situation is much worse than when she made the statement!
Ah, nethen, Ms Reeves has since that anti immigration comment been convinced of ‘the new way’ and thanks very much for the brown envelope.
Who is the leader of the Labour party? Very few voted for Starmer so he certainly is not the Prime Minister of the vast majority: 20% is risible. So, the real question has to become who is the real power in the Labour party? Starmer and Reeves (aka Matt Lucas) seem to agree on absolutely nothing whatsoever.
They couldn’t agree on who works and who doesn’t a few weeks ago. Given the evidence we have all seen, Matt Lucas is in charge banging her drums dressed as a baby.
As to what is currently happening: come on, does anyone think the majority are out for a ruck with the Police? This has been simmering for years as Reeves well knows. Starmer hasn’t got a clue; he is less intelligent than one of Magic Grandpa’s lettuces.
Go down the Pub today, no matter where you live, and ask “Are you fed up with mass immigration and what it has, and is, causing?”. You may be unlucky get two who say they are perfectly happy.
At least we now know who our Prime Minister supports. Personally, I find myself ashamed of the nation I now live in, a nation where illegal immigration and the consequences of that are fine, voicing or protesting against it are not, indeed, you will be punished if you do.
A decade too late…. It’s lip service anyway
A huge Oil Tanker puts on the brakes well in advance of where it wants to stop eg. If it doesn’t do that then it will crash into the harbour with disastrous results. This is exactly what has happened with mass immigration. We did not and still have not put the brakes on and the result is DISASTER.
Excellent point. And that lets you know just how far into the harbour they wish this tanker to go.
wink
“We’ve all seen the protests against the almost open-borders immigration forced on us by.Blair/Brown, in order to rub the Right’s faces in diversity, and enthusiastically continued by the Not-a-Conservative-Party …… particularly Johnson.
Please don’t start an article by revising history.
What are these ‘curbs’? There are plenty of curbs out in the street. They frame a broad highway.
The volte face of Reeves is reminiscent of that of Boris Johnson. As Mayor of London, he was openly climate sceptical – “wind forms couldn’t pull the skin off a rice pudding” – but as soon as he became prime minister, he realised that his bread was buttered on the side of the globalists’ climate change hoax and here we are today heading for Net Zero economic ruination.
Now that Reeves is in power, as an obedient puppet she is likewise toeing the globalist party line on enforcing mass immigration, against the interests of the people of the UK.
In various surveys, when asked if they have an issue with mass immigration, the MAJORITY of people say yes. This is therefore an issue that our politicians should deal with, rather than tarring anyone who challenges it as right wing racists. If more than 50% of the population agrees with an issue, then its a majority view not right wing!
Are Reeves and Phillipson clones?
Is that how labour get so many supporters?
Clowns, is, I think, the word.
Now it’s Bolton’s turn;
”Tensions rise in Bolton! Muslim Defence League and British patriots face off. British police try to separate them.”
https://x.com/EuropeInvasionn/status/1820097614676685033
https://x.com/EuropeInvasionn/status/1820095072357974056
With a side helping of pyromania in Rotherham;
https://x.com/dailyreportsx/status/1820092759006654842
Why on Earth is there a group calling themselves Muslim defence league? Rioting on the streets of England to the battle call of Allah Akbar, indeed! Be off with them, see them off to the cry of Rule Britannia!
Indeed.
There are a variety of existing names to choose from like Hamas, Hezbollah, al Qaeda, ISIS, Houthi, ISIL etc.