Hoist by her own petard
Miranda Devine’s latest column is good — she takes to task those dickheads who move into a neighbourhood, complain about the noise, and suck the life out of it — but she just can’t resist a cheap shot at Simon Crean, and she sound like an idiot:
Because he’s not from Sydney, Simon Crean probably hasn’t a clue what hit him this week in all the furore about where to put the airport. As a Melburnian, the Opposition Leader can’t be expected to understand the peculiar Sydney malady that allows arriviste noise nazis to rule the roost.
Crean fucked up with the airport thing, sure. But his being from Melbourne as the root cause? You’ve got to be kidding. People in cities all over Australia (and, presumably, the world) have,
instead of adapting to their funky new surroundings, … set about rearranging the furniture, complaining to councils, police and the EPA about noises from enterprises that were operating before their own homes were a twinkle in a developer’s eye.
In accusing Crean of being oblivious to anything outside Melbourne, Devine has revealed that she’s oblivious to anything outside Sydney.
Twit.
Well said. I’ve got no sympathy with people who move to an area where they know there will be a lot of pubs and revellers and who nonetheless insist upon trying to remodel the place in their image.
Just to let you know almost all of the noise on the airport comes from blowins who bought into the area knowing full well about the noise and now have the effrontery to ask to taxpayers to noiseproof their house.
People who have lways lived there have already done this.
And to think ALP trendies suck up to these bloodsuckers!!
They have to Homer. Its their main support base now, in many ALP Branches.