Guess what Fiji? As the Coalition government lurches from crisis to crisis and wallows in chaos and dysfunction, its supporters are starting to realise that the clock is ticking towards its day of judgment next year and are coming up with the most bizarre excuses for its failure.
Mick “The Mouth” Beddoes – the one-time Sage of Sabeto and the slug who was too slow to register for the Unity Party at the last election – really thinks we are all stupid. He says the work of government is being disrupted by “hand-picked moles” loyal to the last government who are dragging their feet in implementing the Coalition’s policies.
Are you kidding, Mick? Even the dumbest Fijian knows that as soon as they got into power, the Coalition embarked on a Stalinist-style purge of the civil service and offices of state and put their kai vata and loyalists into all the top jobs. So who are the “hand-picked moles”? Name one. Coalition hacks and their relatives have even been given jobs as drivers and tea ladies. So is there a go-slow on the purini?
Seriously. The government has had more than two years to get its house in order. And the fact that it cannot deliver basic services and is mired in scandal has nothing to do with anyone else but themselves. And what a cheek for Mick Beddoes to talk about people dragging their feet. He couldn’t even drag his feet over to Suva to register for the last election in time.
The fact is that Mick and his best mate and fellow spinner – Sitiveni Rabuka‘s chief media advisor, Matt Wilson – know the game is getting away from them. Everything the government touches turns to sh*t. So all the normal tactics of PR are simply no longer working as the lemmings head for the cliff.
What did Hitler do? Blame the Jews. What should Rabuka do? Blame the “handpicked moles” in his government who got in the way of his program. In desperation, Mick’s idea now is to find a scapegoat. It’s Frank and Aiyaz’s “disruptors”. Are you kidding? Mate, take it from this former spinner. It isn’t going to work. Because Blind Freddy can see the absolute mayhem at the top of government.
Take the latest example. Two days ago, the Fiji Times front page told us that Siromi Turaga was going to be reassigned as Minister for Justice because the Prime Minister had said so. What happened instead? Siromi Turaga stays. And instead of paying for his gross incompetence in the Christopher Pryde and Jalesi Nakarawa debacles, he gets a new assistant minister to help him destroy the criminal justice system.
Yes, folks, suddenly a seventh additional recruit – Josaia Niudamu – has been sworn in to prop up Siromi Turaga in the Justice Ministry and join the six from the Group of Nine former FijiFirst MPs who have already been bought off with ministerial posts.
What happened in the meantime? The Fiji Times doesn’t say. But someone obviously told the Prime Minister that removing Siromi Turaga wasn’t on. Was it the hapless incompetent himself? Or was it the anti-Rabuka faction in the People’s Alliance that told the PM that if Turaga goes, he will be close behind him. Can someone, anyone, please explain to the rest of us what the hell is going on? Whatever it is, the razor-sharp Premila Kumar is dead right. The whole thing is a sham.
The Prime Minister promises a “cabinet reshuffle” to improve the government’s performance. What does he do instead? There is no reshuffle – no moving the non-performers out. The cards in the pack stay exactly the same. At the taxpayers expense, he merely adds a whole lot of new ministers and assistant ministers to the mix to produce the biggest ministry in Fijian history – 34 members. And to buy himself more numbers in the parliament, including someone to hold the hand of the walking car-crash, Siromi Turaga.
No, Mick. The blame for the most incompetent government in Fijian history can’t be put on “hand-picked moles” and disruptors from the last government, which faded into history two years ago. The Fijian people aren’t that stupid. They know that the Coalition has had plenty of time to tackle the nation’s problems but is chronically unable to do so because it is better at playing politics than problem-solving.
The people have long ago had enough – whether it is of the antics of Siromi Turaga, Lynda Tabuya or Charan Jeath Singh or anyone else on this ship of fools – and have started to look around for alternatives. And while two years hasn’t been enough for Rabuka’s Coalition to get its act together, 18 months is more than enough for an alternative political force to get it together and consign these idiots to the dustbin of history, where they belong.
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What we were told two days ago…
And what has happened instead…
Mick the Mouth emerges from the shadows to blame the government’s woes on “moles” loyal to Frank and Aiyaz.
But Mick’s diversionary tactic ain’t gonna work because the whole nation knows the truth.
Look at these idiots. Posing like schoolboys at QVS.
Yep. We are doomed. So we may as well just laugh. Until we kick them out.
This is an admission that current ministers and senior public servants are not good enough for the job. Rather than removing them and causing chaos in the ranks, appoint more ministers. 2026 cannot come quickly enough!
Wait a minute. You are like GD tarring everyone with the same brush. There are some hardworking and smart senior civil servants who keep the government on an even keel. The problem lies more with the quality of political leadership.
This government is so corrupt and filled with liars that the people will flock to the one who tells the truth.
The million dollar question is: Is there one among the many in Fiji who can lead the country with true leadership and integrity?
If there is, they need to start strategically planning the ousting of this bunch of crooks. Not later, but now.
The answer to your million $ question is YES….but obtaining the agreement of that person to enter politics is the challenge.
Couldn’t agree more with Get Up Fiji.
Surely Fiji has enough intellect within its citizenry for someone to rise and offer a true alternative to the voters. Someone who’s a true visionary that has the country and its populace as their priority and not one that’s going to go into it for self gain.
Politics is a dirty game no matter what part of the world you look at but this lot in Fiji has taken it to another level.
It’s a beautiful country from my few visits there, beautiful everyday people in the streets but now disintegrating rapidly into a North Korea.
Surely there’s a saviour amongst its people who would rise to right the wrongs !!!!
Jiaoji Savou for PM!
This idiot, Mick Beddoes, comes out of his hiberantion once in a while thinking he is relevant. He has absolutely no idea about anything. I suggest that he should stop embarassing himself, shut up and f**k off.
A flip flopper, a useless dick, and has no idea what is happening in politics in the country. Not submitting his application on time for the last election says a lot, me thinks.
Thick Beddoes
GD.
Mick the dick, the biggest sapo in the west, the obese slug who drags his feet on everything has the perfect colonial, kailoma elitist, masi polo the racist who hate indo fijians, mindset buddy in Matt Wilson whose political solutions have never had a leg to stand on. That’s why hes limped and simped all his life from racist Qarase to racist Rabaku like the limp dick that he is.
Not all Kai Loma were/are colonial and elitist, Mick is certainly not one of them, working class born and bred. You are just a bloody middle to upper class racist.
The silence from other parties, civil society, churches, religious, women’s and human rights groups is deafening.
The so called ‘journalists’ (with the benefit of Shailendra Singh’s training) are not even able to put a decent piece together on the connivance and scheming of Rabuka and the implications of these changes on the political landscape and Fiji’s stability. All they can do is quote the miffed and superficial views of Steven Ratuva who, as well know, has his own bias.
Thank you Grubsheet for continuing to air these issues eloquently, and speaking up for the common concerned citizens who do not really have any other platform or recourse.
Steven Ratuva, another self-serving idiot with a personal prejudice who comes out of his hole once in a while and thinks he is relevant. Acedemics are useless in the real world. Just look at the professor, who is pretending to be the Minister of Finance.
Couldn’t agree more about Ratuva. Someone on this site recently commented that any fool can get a PhD, but no fool can become a good leader.
Ratuva is a useless professor of almost nothing at University of Canterbury.
Anyone becomes of importance in New Zealand as long as they are Pasifika.
He is of no relevance in NZ and Fiji. Waste of space.
We cannot ask churches to voice against anything in Fiji. Same for mosques and temples. Their leaders are sold to the government. Since forever.
The coalition’s supporters have been fooled and almost brainwashed- as is done in cults – that the constitution needs to change and that the 1997 constitution is the legal one. It reminds one of the story of starved prisoner who had the key to freedom and a piece of bread in front of him and he chose the latter.
They have not laid out what exactly needs to change and on what basis 1997 constitution is legitimate. One forgets that consultation with the public doesn’t necessarily yield the best outcomes for a nation. Constitutions are designed to protect minorities which has been adequately delivered by 2013 constitution, which appears to be the sticking point.
Steve (Rabuka’s) response is that the funding for the over sizing of the cabinet will come from existing budget. But our free media failed to ask where these will be reallocated from. The 24-25 budget already has the worst ever implementation ratio and CAPEX-OPEX mix. Now taxpayers will be funding for further OPEX…which will continue in the future years. They will basically borrow to fund the lavishness. This is the KEY that the coalition supporters have failed to recognize.
What a sad state of affairs when the nation comes second to personal interests.
Sorry but you are wrong in one issue…that the 2013 Constitution adequately protects ethnic minorities.
Thats hogwash…the ‘General Voters’ of old have been shafted by this Constitution…they have no allocatted seats in parliament.
They have been disenfranchised.
Is it any wonder that they are now on the side of the taukei liberationists?
Gotta agree with Wacol’s comment. The ‘General Voters’ have indeed been pushed aside from the top table by the vulagi Taliban et al.
The marginalized ‘General Voters’ have always been looked after by their i’taukei blood brothers. They fought and died together in the wars. If you dont believe me, go visit the War Memorial in Veiuto and read the names.
For the marginalized ‘General Voters’, they feel they can cut a better deal on the ‘common identity’ issue with their i’taukei blood brothers than with the vulagi talibani and the great uncircumcised etc who pushed them out of the top table under the 2013 Constitution.
So the 2013 Constitution has to go
Labasa, Wacol. So you are responding to your own postings, eh? Are you completely stupid? I can see your email address every time you post and you are using that address to respond to your previous comment. Do it again and I will permanently ban you. Because you are simply being dishonest as well as being a racist looney-tune.
Walcol you racist con! No wonder Rabuka is a con.You think you can come here and con people by creating responses to your own post ?? Sa Levu ga na nomuni fancy but you’re all the same like Rabuka pulling fast ones but honestly stupid whilst doing it ! GD ban the idiot please ! Thank goodness you caught the idiot out. Yuck !
Wacol, you are a f**k wit.
Does mandatory allocation of parliamentary/ministerial seats equate to being protected as minorities?
Equal and common citizenry does not necessarily allow for this ethnic line of selecting representatives-the same being reflected in the electoral system.
If it is true for general voters, the reservation of seats will need to extend to other minority groups as well. Along ethnic lines, the migrant communities, along gender lines for LGBTQ+, etc.
The line needs to be drawn somewhere but I’m glad that at least someone has put out what their qualm with the constitution is as opposed to those in government just flying the flag of change!!
Was that group photo of PM and new Ministers taken st the QVSOB Club in Brewster Street, Toorak?
Or was it taken at the ‘CBM Convention’ at Village Six, Waimanu Road? Lol
RKS and QVS is the place for breeding Fijis future coup and thug leaders. ACS for the slut whores.
@Doomed scool days. Go away with your stereotypical myopic impostical self righteous take of the boarding schools that educate the decent villagers and parents who are sports icons, medical professionals, engineers, farmers, etc. for Fiji.
Nausapoto looks like he did something to the neighbor’s cat.
In Fiji, you do not need a proper tertiary qualification as long as you attend QVS or RKS to get into a government role. Fake it till you make it
So no new other ethnic person could qualify to be the Minister?
Kick all the parties out come 2026.
Fiji needs a clean slate. No more coup leaders.
I love how Mick “the mouth”, blames moles for sabotaging the work of this poor performing Coalition government. Maybe he should try looking above ground for a change—like at his watch, where he forgot to file his nomination papers!
Mick Beddoes claims moles are responsible for unfulfilled promises of this Coalition government. I guess when you dig a hole deep enough, you start blaming the critters down there instead of the fat cats walking about above ground.
And BTW, what’s with Steven Ratuva and his ubiquitous grey cap?
It must act as his Wisdom Amplifier: Wearing it instantly boosts the professor’s knowledge by 50%.
Shiteve Ratuva is a coconut.
Brown on the outside, white on the inside.
Three ex-military commanders in the pic – all of them are not only idiots but useless.
Self-serving megalomaniacs who have nothing to offer, who cannot change anything, who cannot organise a f*ck in a brothel nor could they organise a piss up in a brewery. Useless c**ts. The sight of them makes me cringe.
These three bastards have been scamming the people of Fiji for decades. They have been living off tax payers money for almost 4 decades. When will this stop. Are the idiot people of Fiji blind, are they just stupid or is it the case that prejudice and racism have clouded their judgement or are they just f*cked in the head. All of the above, I hear you say?
Four decades – just think about it – more than half a lifetime. When will it stop, f**kheads of Fiji?
The allegation by Mick Beddoes shows just how irrelevant he is.
Anyone following the election of this Government and its actions in the months following would be well aware of their program of removing all the appointees of the previous Government from positions of power or influence.
Beddoes is a failed political operative who most would regard as ‘past use by date’ and ignore his mutterings.
What even more amazing is his attempt to defend the Government. A Government so lacking in talent that it has a cabinet one and half times the cabinet of Australia.
And what have they done in the last two years? Given themselves a pay rise, travelled the world, had conferences, workshops and celebratory dinners! Whilst the basic infrastructure declines, crime rises, Fijians exodus Fiji at an alarming rate, levels of poverty increase, and the cost of Government grows
The only thing I remember about Mick Beddoes is his photo holding up the torn underwear during the 2018 elections.
Looks like he’s still holding it.
The worst part is the media will report an unsubstantiated opinion of a clown like Mick and put it into print without an ounce of asking if he can provide more evidence of his claims.
Our media is as dead as the toad that got crushed on the road by a wheel and is slowly dying and drying in the sun. Pretty pathetic.
Processing the back-to-school support grant earlier for parents is not because the government is heading into elections, but because it is something that we feel is politically correct.
This was stressed by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Professor Biman Prasad, who stated that this was something they had been planning since they came into power.
There you have it Fiji….the confession and the same time ambiguity from the deputy PM.
Politically correct…
I’ll be waiting with bated breath for one switched on journalist to ask the DPM to clarify his statement
Can no one in Fiji see the forest through the trees?
Mick “The Slow Poke” BEDDOES goes on an insanely juvenile tirade about agents of Frank and Aiyaz as sole reasons for the coalition’s failure in implementing policies.
Sorry Mick, but you’re a liability to yourself and the demography that you claim to represent. You’re not doing any favours to the Coalition or the people with your occasional senseless rant that is nothing but pretentious and pompous.
If I wanted to hear an a$$hőlə speak, I’d fart.
Huge demand for Barf Bags in Fiji, ready to vomit at this coalition government’s bs?
Welcome back to GS, Rajesh. As Victor Laszlo says to Rick in the movie, Casablanca: “Welcome back to the fight. This time I know we are going to win.”
One wonders what Frank Bainimarama makes of this photo. Naupoto was often seen beside Frank’s side during his court appearances shortly before being sent to gaol.
And now?
Where is Ben Naliva and the majority of the 3rd Regiment who visited Voreqe’s home early in 2023?
So much quiet on the Bainimarama front.
For how long???