Stormy Weatherill ahead as SA Premier threatens to go it alone on clean energy target

South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill on Sky News, yesterday:

We’ll just take on the work of Dr (Alan) Finkel and do it ourselves.

National energy policy run by the Labor premiers? Aretha Franklin and Annie Lennox, 1985:

(Premiers) are doin’ it for themselves.

There’s a recipe for disaster. The Australian, yesterday:

Victoria’s available gas supplies will almost halve in the next four years …

Seriously. The Australian, June 10:

Wholesale electricity prices in Queensland have been the most expensive in the National Energy Market for most of this year as its state-owned generators more than doubled the dividends it paid to the debt-riven Palaszczuk Labor government.

Then there’s the SA Labor government. The Australian, March 21:

Weatherill has lashed out over the state’s energy crisis, claiming Labor’s relentless pursuit of renewables had no impact on the power grid …

Weatherill should focus more on saving his own neck. Election analyst Antony Green on ABC News, Sunday:

I don’t want to make people think it is a real possibility he (Nick Xenophon) could be premier but it is the sort of thing you shouldn’t discount.

In other news, alt-right leader Milo Yiannopoulos is heading Down Under. Spin doctor Max Markson’s press release, October 1:

Penthouse Australia is proud to be bringing Milo Yiannopoulos on his Troll Academy Tour …

Milo really isn’t our type of guy. Bloomberg, September 15 last year:

In the alt-right world view, nice, normal white dudes are told they’re racist and sexist by “social justice warriors”. In retaliation, they’ve adopted a strategy Yiannopoulos calls “double down, don’t back down”. He explains: “If someone calls you an anti-Semite, you go to their page and put up swastikas.”

Someone thought it was a good idea to get this guy on morning TV. Milo on the Seven Network’s Sunrise, yesterday:

Presenter Monique Wright: You’ve likened feminism to cancer, you’ve said women on the pill don’t look right, don’t talk right …

Yiannopoulos: Well, all those things are true. All those things are true.

The dude is toxic. BuzzFeed, Friday:

Yiannopoulos sings America the Beautifulin a Dallas karaoke bar as admirers, including the white nationalist Richard Spencer, raise their arms in Nazi salutes.

In fact, he’s just downright creepy. The Washington Post, February 21:

Yiannopoulos, the incendiary writer who helped make Breitbart News a leading organ of the alt-right, resigned from the news organisation Tuesday after a video of him endorsing pedophilia resurfaced online …

David Koch on Sunrise, yesterday:

He just wants the attention.

Don’t give Milo the attention then. Interview a great conservative such as Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson instead. The Times, yesterday:

Davidson has opened up the possibility of going to Westminster …

No need to delay, Ruth. Britain needs you. The Sunday Times, ­Sunday:

Twenty-four hours after the worst moment of Theresa May’s career, three members of her cabinet decided her time was up as Prime Minister.