The "menu" has landed in my FB first thing in the morning yesterday; my first thought was NO, that cannot possibly be real. Few hours later it was on the news. In meanwhile there would have been frantic communications among LNP members, and then came the apologies. Yes, apologies and lame excuses but NO denials. Yes it was said that the 'menu" was a work of non party member, but it was only at night, some 12 hours later, that the claim was made that it had nothing to do with the people present at the diner, that none has seen it, it was not shown etc. Well, if that was the case why wasn't that made clear from the start?
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My GUESS is that when the menu was released, seeing as no one at the dinner had seen it themselves, that they were contacting other people at the dinner to see if they knew anything about it.
Apologies? Well of course, even though my opinion of our PM is now greatly diminished, I am still very sorry that this has happened to her, that she was subjected to that kind of ridicule but even more sorry that she handled the entire situation so badly. She REacted without proof, thought or facts. I expect better from my PM, regardless of who they are. I really wish that she had have taken some time to think and to strategize, this is something she could have used in her favour regardless of the authenticity of that menu.
Handled with diplomacy, we could have all now been congratulating and praising her on how well she did handle controversial issues. All she has done is expose her weaknesses as a leader. If the menu were proven to be true, they would have spoken for themselves, or rather the people and the media would have, and she could have and she wouldn't have had to throw any point scoring mud at all.
Denials - LOL - how could they deny it until they had some FACTS as to the source? They knew that individually they had no knowledge, but needed to ensure that the same could be said for people with whom they were connected - otherwise they would be branded a liar.
They chose to only make clear what they knew to be FACT. Information for which they had PROOF. Something our PM really should have done, if not in her capacity as the PM, but certainly as a result of her legal studies.
Even I know that it doesn't matter what I know or believe, it only matters what I can PROVE - I just kind of expected that our PM would understand that too, ya know?
In this situation, it appears to me that it is the opposition who handled things like leaders. They collected FACTS before responding or acting, took a few moments to think, were quick to express their sympathy that something like this had happened, regardless of who was to blame and expressed their distaste for the content whilst initiating investigations into what really happened and planning how to move forward.
Some people can go their whole lives and never really live for a single minute.
