SOME MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS

Socialism in the old USSR worked the way it always works in every country its ever been established in...everybody is equal but some are more equal than others.

The 'tofu socialists' in Australia are no different, take Alan Joyce's boast about the Qantas Chairman's lounge and how he uses it as a political tool to manipulate politicians:

But the problem with the Qantas CEO is that he wields a disproportionate amount of
power and influence in this town, because everyone who’s anyone wants to belong to his invitation-only “Chairman’s Lounge”.
Talk about elites. It’s the hottest ticket around.
“If you’re unhappy with a company that’s involved with the [Marriage Equality] campaign you won’t be able to bank and you won’t be able to fly anywhere,” Joyce boasted to the gay and lesbian newspaper the Star Observer.So when Joyce turns Australia’s beloved national airline into a tool of the same-sex marriage lobby, few people dare criticise, even if they disagree, as many of his passengers do.

The national carrier of the world’s most egalitarian nation ironically boasts the most elitist VIP lounge of any airline.
Joyce himself once boasted that the Chairman’s Lounge was: “probably the most exclusive club in the country”.

Inside, in the Jetsons-inspired honeycomb-carpeted hush you will find politicians, media heavyweights, CEOs, judges, union leaders, models and celebrities, noshing companionably on free Neil Perry “inspired” gourmet meals on demand and lapping up fine champagnes and boutique beers.
It’s all truffled vinaigrette, Schultz bacon and sesame seed noughatine for lounge denizens, although last weekend’s champagne selection was more pedestrian than expected, featuring a Seppelt 2012 sparkling white.
There you’ll find such working class heroes of the political classes as Labor Senator Doug Cameron and Independent Jacqui Lambie.In the Chairman’s Lounge you always score a complimentary flight upgrade, and obsequious staff will whisper in your ear when it’s your turn to board, so that you waste no time queuing with the hoi polloi.
While Qantas is believed automatically to bestow Chairman’s Lounge membership on all Federal MPs, and their partners, not everyone declares the gift on the parliamentary register of pecuniary interests. Maybe that’s because they don’t use it, or perhaps, because if “everyone has it,” as one pollie puts it, it’s not worth mentioning.
“It’s the crack cocaine of travel,” says another member of the exclusive club. “You know it’s wrong but you don’t want to give it up.”
Among the more than 100 politicians who have declared membership are Liberals Tony Abbott, Julie Bishop, Josh Frydenberg, Julian Leeser and Kelly O’Dwyer. Labor’s Bill Shorten, Terri Butler, Jim Chalmers, Jason Claire, Emma Husar and Cameron also are among the Qantas elite, as is Lambie and the Greens’ Adam Bandt and Sarah Hanson-Young and Scott Ludlam." [M Devine]

Perhaps this is why Abbott lost his way and eventually the respect of the 'deplorables' in Australia. I love the way Jackie Lambie, Sarah Hanson-Young and other communards are part of the witches brew...talk about hypocrisy on steroids....but then why should we expect anything different...and these sybaritic hypocrites whinge about Trump.

I wish there was a Trump on Australia's political horizon.