Dancing Queen and other fancy footwork keep up with Boris
BBC.com on Theresa May’s dysrhythmic entrance to ABBA’s Dancing Queen at the Conservative Party conference, yesterday:
It’s not the first time the PM has shown off her footwork. On the first day of a trade mission to Africa in August, she attempted to dance with a group of schoolchildren. It’s fair to say her moves weren’t universally acclaimed — “wooden” and “cringe-worthy” being two widely used adjectives … (But) some political commentators also welcomed her willingness to mock herself and present a friendlier, funnier side.
Huffington Post UK executive editor Paul Waugh tweets, Wednesday:
PM hits the Boris (Johnson) bullseye by embracing her inner robot.
Widely mocked for being robotic in persona and intransigent in policy, May decided to take ownership, self-deprecatingly, of her flaws.
Marina Hyde, The Guardian online, yesterday:
If Labour are comforted by this shitshow … Imagine not having a 10-point poll lead over this lot. “Don’t know” (39%) still outpolls both May (36%) and Jeremy Corbyn (23%) as to who would make the best prime minister.
Josh Frydenberg displays fancier footwork on 2GB, yesterday:
Alan Jones: I think Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg … have made an excellent start in repairing the appalling damage done by Malcolm Turnbull … But there are always hand grenades.
Such as The Daily Telegraph’s acrostic headline on the GST yesterday:
Get Stuffed Treasurer (neatly abridging the message to Frydenberg from NSW counterpart Dominic Perrottet).
Back to our joshing Treasurer on 2GB:
Frydenberg: Nice to be with you, Alan, and glad to hear you’re taking up fencing.
Jones: That’s enough out of you …
What followed was less a duel than a Fred-and-Ginger tap dance through “horizontal fiscal equalisation”:
Frydenberg: This will be a test of Bill Shorten’s credibility … He says one thing to the baristas of Batman and he says another to the miners of Mackay. He says one thing to the people of Penrith and he says another to the publicans in Perth.
Jones: That’s very alliterative of you. You’ve been practising that, I can see.
Frydenberg: (chuckling) No I haven’t.
Oh yes he has. David Jones has been practising its own dance routines, as reported in The Australian yesterday:
The department store opens the first stage of its $200 million flagship redevelopment in Sydney’s CBD tonight, the much-anticipated “Shoe Heaven” at the top of the historic building … To celebrate the launch, members of the Sydney Dance Company will perform tonight, and weekly for the immediate future …
Someone beat DJs to the punch with “Shoe Heaven”. Now on eBay:
Imelda Marcos Envy Shoe Heaven
8 items starting from AU$23.42
Associated Press, September 23, 2012:
Termites, storms and neglect have damaged Imelda Marcos’s legendary stash of shoes, left behind in The Philippines after she and her dictator husband were driven into US exile by a 1986 popular revolt.
Yet Marcos’s hot-shoe shuffle goes on. ABS-CBN News, September 21:
The Supreme Court has affirmed the acquittal of former first lady and (current Philippines politician) Imelda Marcos in 32 criminal cases over alleged unlawful foreign exchange accounts amounting to millions of dollars …