The weirdest insults politicians threw at each other in government this year
Are you ready for the sickest burns by the most fire politicians of 2016?
Bar a certain southeast Asian leader and a president-elect, most insults thrown around in politics this year were more mild than wild. But nonetheless weird.
The Society of Clerks have compiled this year's naughtiest expressions in their most recent version of journal, The Table. It's full to the brim with terms uttered by politicians in the parliaments of countries such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India and South Africa.
Get ready for the tamest, lamest calls ever. Except in Australia, where they really DGAF.
Australia
- The Dr Goebbels of economic policy.
- The Australian people see you as a very unsavoury member of the House.
- The cockroach of the Australian Labor Party.
- The question was about his dog of a policy.
- You are such a grub.
- Free trade is bullshit.
- Aren't you the real clown, and one with a massive credibility deficit?
- You would think the foreign minister might actually think before she opens her big fat trap and says stupid things in this parliament.
- They are the tools over the other side that will be bashed.
- Here is another muppet.
- Those blokes would sell smokes to kids if they had a chance.
- You’ve got to stop smoking the funny stuff. You’ve got to stop smoking so much pot.
- My question is to the village idiot.
- He is not here. He is talking to Tinker Bell on his unicorn phone.
- You nitwit.
- You knucklehead.
- You lot stink.
Canada
- You are full of crap.
- Mr Speaker, extraordinary. Living in a Canada, where that sort of idiocy passes for argument in the House of Parliament.
- That man is a clown … you have no clue.
- Patronage is the K-Y Jelly of politics … in an absolute orgy of political patronage … the whole war room of the Conservative party’s election campaign was appointed to the Senate as one big fat "F you" to the Canadian public.
India
- Shut up, you will be silenced.
- Can I not call a thief a thief?
- Who is shouting? Does not your common sense work? … Are we in Parliament or in a market?
- Pimps of power.
New Zealand
- Go back to supporting marijuana.
- Battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.
South Africa
- We are going to hit you physically now.
- A fool elected by a fool will be led by a fool, but the biggest fool is the fool who elected that fool.
- Tellytubby.
Of course, we all know what these politicians are really trying to say.
They could take some lessons in letting it all out from Irish politician Paul Gogarty back in 2009. And yes, it actually contains coarse language.
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