The Country 28/03/25: Barry Soper talks to Jamie Mackay

We ask our political correspondent how "out of touch" the Greens are. And whether a book on his life in politics is in the wind?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Barry Soper out of touch describes Tamotha Paul. What has
she been smoking?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Good afternoon, Jamie. Yeah, you'd have to think she was
on something, wouldn't you. It's incredible. Really, abolish the police.
What do you have? Anarchy? And she seems to feel
that people are intimidated by seeing cops wandering around on
the beat. Well, they must be an absolute majority a

(00:28):
minority and have something to hide. I just can't believe
that this woman that we pay the best part of
two hundred k a year four comes out with statements
like that. Not only that, Jamie, you remember she said
essentially that people, most of the people in prison, of
people that are there because they have some mental nepacity

(00:53):
and in fact, you're there for stealing a life of
bread to feed the family, rather than what is reality
that they're there because they're violent.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
And Barry and then she tried to say that someone
was in there for stealing something worth twelve dollars. She's
a nut job. There's too many of them, right, Hey,
just getting this is totally off the script. And I
don't even know if you've caught up with this story,
because I wasn't expecting to chat to you today, Barry,
it's a bonus getting you on. Did you pick up
that story that zedb ran this morning about this research

(01:26):
is wanting a way to remove infirm prime ministers and
this comes off the back of Biden obviously, But they
studied for prime ministers Michael, Joseph Savage, Norman Kirk. Who
was the other one, Joseph Ward. Well, yeah, yeah, all
infirm due to illness. And then they talked about your
old mate, Sir Robert. It was the heavy drinking that

(01:49):
got in.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Well, indeed it was. And there are so many stories
about Rob Muldourn that I won't bore you with here,
but I'm sure I have done in the past. Jamie. Yeah,
he was in the end.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Not capable essentially of running the country and I think
that showed when he hung on klang on to power
after David Longley won the Treasury benches and refused to
give it up until he is virtually forced out. But
you know, I've seen examples of Muldourn being totally incapable
of being in the position of Prime minister.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
But that's not to say that other prime ministers not
in terms of drink, but they've been fairy woeful as well,
and their ability to handle that particular job. So he's
not on his own. I could tell many stories about
many prime ministers.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, okay, I've got like ten seconds left. Are you
going to write a book?

Speaker 2 (02:44):
I'm in the process of doing that.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Joke you know where all the skeletons are buried. I
look forward to that. See you, Lader bas Cheers James.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
There we go.