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Former Prime Minister Paul Keating has today offered up an interesting solution to a big headache for the Labor Party.
The King of Privatising Public Assets has revealed that Labor Government should move to try and privatise the CFMEU.
While the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union isn’t actually owned by the government or Labor, the close relationship between the political party and the union is something Paul Keating believes should be leveraged.
Famous amongst terrace house residents and bush lefties for his ‘incredible zingers,’ the man who perfected the art of privatisation in Australia says selling off the CFMEU would be the perfect solution the current political scandal.
“Well you see, with no intention whatsoever of trying to obfuscate this political kerfuffle the Labor party has found itself in, I think the simple solution here is to make the Unions more efficient by selling them to lowest bidder.”
The man who sold off Qantas and Commonwealth Bank to make them way shitter whilst raking in billions of dollars a year for board members and CEOs, said the CFMEU could make some money for the public coffers, whilst getting the corporate big wigs to gut the internal structure and remove any of these underworld characters lurking amongst the union.
“We could split the different arms of the CFMEU and sell them off separately and turn it into a really efficient organisation that would benefit big business,” mused Keating.
The former Treasurer famous for the 1983 Accord agreements that significantly sold out Labor’s base and weakened the power of unions across the board, explained that privatisation of the CFMEU could be the first of a few nails in the coffin.
“We need to trust the free market, and having unions like CFEMU ensure that property developers hand over a few extra dollars to tradies is undue interference in that.”
“So, it’s time to sell em off and Labor wash their hands of another chunk of their base.”
More to come.
