OPINION Barnaby's strategy: 'Hold my beer, I'm coming for your head ...'
Anyone expressing surprise at Barnaby Joyce's use of a warfare tactic known as decapitation hasn't been listening.
But for this fellow who considers himself the "elected deputy prime minister of Australia" and whose desire for destruction of all in his path to regaining this exalted position is about as subtle as a grizzly bear with a mess of porcupine quills in its muzzle, it was merely a first roar.It is defined as "achieving strategic paralysis by targeting political leadership, command and control".
In the Canberra that Prime Minister Scott Morrison calls a "bubble", vanquished challengers tend to go quiet for a decent period, dreaming and scheming behind closed doors. There's a sort of shadow dance to these things. Normally.
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