greggerypeccary wrote Yesterday at 7:04pm:
Bobby. wrote Yesterday at 7:00pm:
He shows no sign of stopping.
How will you feel after Albo brings in 2 million more immigrants before the next election?
Let's have 30 million people in Australia -
and let them eat cake.
Just like Marie Antoinette?
https://archive.is/20260612190258/https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/let-...Let them eat cake: Anthony Albanese’s Marie Antoinette moment
The Prime Minister seems oblivious to the social and political revolution that’s under way in Australia.
Gemma Tognini
5 min read
June 13, 2026 - 12:00AM
Queen Marie Antoinette is reputed to have responded to the starvation and poverty of the French people by saying if they could not eat bread then let them eat cake. It’s one of the most famous phrases in modern history, although there remains conjecture about whether she said it. Either way, it is so deeply embedded in the lexicon that to utter these words sends an immediate message: suffer, peasants.
Most wouldn’t imagine that Anthony Albanese and Marie Antoinette had a great deal in common. On reflection this past month, I’ve changed my position. Let them eat cake: Such a useful turn of phrase, don’t you think? It’s symbolic of the extravagance of the Prime Minister’s and the French queen’s “households”. Both are known for existing in a bubble of privilege and excess, diabolically tone deaf and disconnected from the real world.
Another thing they have in common: Just as Marie Antoinette didn’t realise there was a revolution under way until it cost her head, Albanese seems oblivious to the social and political revolution that’s under way in Australia.