Adding a Iemmaism to Orwell’s Slogans
Monday, 19th February, 2007
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
To these classic George Orwell slogans from 1984 we can now add an Iemmaism:
MORE TO DO BUT WE’RE HEADED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
To these classic George Orwell slogans from 1984 we can now add an Iemmaism:
MORE TO DO BUT WE’RE HEADED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
Morris Iemma yesterday launched his NSW State election campaign with that plaintive plea. Just when you thought Labor could not move any further to the right! Watch out One Nation, we’re coming to overtake you.
Or are these Iemmaisms really Orwellian. Does this slogan mean that the left has gained control? Do all our political slogans now have opposite meanings to the ones advertised? Stand by for the new Labor Government’s Department of Freedom to impound all yachts in Sydney Harbour after cunningly pretending to allow free extra moorings to the city’s rich and famous. Rejoice. Morris is Jack Lang reincarnated.
More to do indeed! Swallow that bunkum, return Labor and have another four years of costly tunnels and a shortage of water. You ain’t seen nothing yet.
So just remember, with apologies to Dick Tuck, "The Job Needs Morris, And Morris Needs the Job."
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