Dual citizen deja vu strikes Nick Xenophon’s crew and the whole nation can only weep

No. Nick Xenophon Team senator Skye Kakoschke-Moore speaks in Adelaide, yesterday:

Today I have received confirmation that I am a dual citizen.

Please stop. Kakoschke-Moore in Adelaide, yesterday:

I have inherited British citizenship from my mother.

Say no more. We can look over this. Kakoschke-Moore continues:

My mother was born in Singapore …

Don’t do this to me, buddy. Please. Senator Kakoschke-Moore again:

They advised that my mother was born in the former colony of Singapore before independence. This gave her citizenship of the United Kingdom and colonies under section 4 of the British Nationality Act of 1948.

We can’t write about this any more. Kakoschke-Moore in Adelaide. This hell never ends:

I am therefore a British citizen.

What else do we have, guys? Cut & Paste’s headline, November 6:

Citizenship witch-hunt finds real witches but MPs trying to stop audit with black magic

You’ve sucked the life out of us. Greens senator Scott Ludlam quitting was so long ago. Cut & Paste’s headline, July 15:

Going down like a Lud balloon? Or is it more a case of a ’Lam led to the slaughter?

Nick Xenophon himself speaks in Adelaide, yesterday:

Skye Kakoschke-Moore has done outstanding work and this is not the end of her political career, I think it’s the end of a chapter of her political career.

Oh you can shut up, Nick. Cut & Paste’s headline, August 21:

Xenophon joins Canberra’s class of citizenship clowns after revealing dual nationality.

OK, he was cleared by the High Court but apparently he didn’t check his pal’s papers. The Australian online, October 27:

Senator Xenophon said he was leaving behind a highly capable team of colleagues …

We have only one thing to say now. Read section 44 of the Constitution of Australia. January 1, 1901:

Any person who is under any acknowledgment of allegiance, obedience or adherence to a foreign power, or is a subject or a citizen or entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or a citizen of a foreign power … shall be incapable of being chosen or of sitting as a senator or a member of the House of Representatives.

If you come out as a dual citizen after today, we’re going to be really, really, really upset. Maurice Newman writes for The Australian, Monday:

Whatever the outcome, the present dual citizenship imbroglio will go down as arguably the most shameful political episode since Federation.

What else is happening in politics? Graham Richardson in The Australian, yesterday:

These days our PM is a bundle of fears … He fears his own partyroom where he knows the tide of rebellion and discontent is rising fast … He fears Julie Bishop, whose ratings leave his flailing in their wake.

For once, we’d rather talk about leadership drama. Anything but dual citizens … Newman in The Australian, continued:

When choosing between constitutional integrity and eligibility to serve, our representatives’ first instinct is expediency.