I'm just reading through the minutes of a Brisbane City Council meeting. Councillor Sri is the greeny left cuck who got assmad about a Colonial Brewing Co. banner put up by a pub (Colonial Brewing Co. is a real company that makes beer and Sri was buttmad about the word Colonial, and said it was equivalent to the holocaust).
Pic related is him getting the slappo. He's been pissing off the council for months because he doesn't know the rules and suggests stupid shit.
Here he is getting fucking roasted by another Councillor. They're voting on some items and Sri spent a full three pages complaining about how he hadn't got enough information to make an informed vote, and here is SIMMONDS giving him the cockslap.
I didn't realise all these minutes were available but I'm going to be digging through them tonight.
Jackson Bell
Even the Chairman was sick of his shit.
Kevin Clark
Don't know what sort of low tier scum would get involved in local government politics
Local governments should all be abolished
What function do they serve that the state government couldn't carry out?
Christian Wilson
"If you build more roads traffic gets worse." Councillor SRI, 2016.
Nathan Brown
Chairman yells at him again.
Parker Sullivan
He gets mocked by most of the other councillors.
Isaac Bennett
Chairman slaps him again. He complains that he runs out of time but then goes off on huge long-winded speeches.
Angel Harris
This one is gold. He objects to someone using the word rubbish to describe policies he supports.
Jonathan Morgan
Here he complains about people yelling and saying mean things.
"Homeless people should be able to sleep anywhere they want."
Parker Davis
fug. how do they come to be in that position? are they voted in by the public or are they appointed by their respective parties?
Josiah Sanchez
Chairman goes terminator.
Voted in but they have way smaller electorates so the hipster parts of town can get in candidates. Sri is the first Greens councillor ever, and he has been criticised in public for being an ineffective waste of space who doesn't come prepared, doesn't know the rules, and can't do his job.
Dylan Fisher
Didn't realise but there's a part 2 to that, which is even better.
Just wait until you read the ending of his maiden speech in council. This was in front of his fellow councillors, and his first speech to the council.
Roots down roots down roots down roots down my heart's buried deep under Brisbane town creek beds, hilltops, riding around cracking macadamias and putting roots down I am of this city its history is my history my scraped knee and my favourite tree and swimming lessons in the pool at Craigslea Primary and Oxley's expedition back in 1823 and our Year 4 excursion to Saint Helena Island and those weather-worn tennis balls that we were always finding and the floods of 1974 and the invasion of 1788 and the park on the north side where I rode without training wheels for the first time and the frog pond of drowning Christmas beetles and Joh Bjelke-Petersen and hunting Easter eggs in the backyard and hunting kangaroos by Breakfast Creek and the roller coaster at the top of the Myer Centre that looked like a dragon and screamed at the madness beneath
1/2
Benjamin Edwards
roots down roots down this town roots down My roots are tendrils, tentacles reaching down below splitting concrete and bitumen digging in The soil is soft after summer storms and the roots grow quickly, thickly but Brisbane's burbs are built on clay so once they're down they're down to stay Roots down, roots down brushtail growl hear that sound But now and then in this circus I encounter a clown who thinks that because he's got his roots in the ground he somehow gains the right to define this town and decide who else gets to put roots down See the surface seems sufficiently serene but if you peel back the band-aid you'll see the gangrene And now I see you've forgotten I see your roots are rotten but this garden has no gardener that's how we got to where we've gotten The question on my mind is where are we going? This city is growing sauropod construction cranes on every horizon jackhammer clattering drowns out the cicadas the relentless march of apartment towers makes suburbanites nervous so they build higher fences and mow their lawns weekly Roots down, stolen ground dead trees, river brown I know something's awry in this city but I can't quite put my finger on it It's like we've outgrown the garden bed roots in a twist slumbering suburbs silence those who resist Vision blurring but now I hear them stirring climb Mt Coot-tha at midnight see them lighting candles and switching off TVs Flying foxes in the trees stench of rotten mangoes gives way to a cool south-easterly Pumpkin vines wither and die but the passionfruit keeps growing skyscrapers sprouting up from the bedrock Wivenhoe overflowing activists invade city hall and the clocktower falls silent in anticipation Change is coming to Brisbane town we feel it in the soil while we’re cracking macadamias and putting roots down
2/2
Eli Perry
That's not the whole speech by the way, just the ending of it.
Wyatt Hill
Please tell me you're joking
Landon Jackson
It's all there in the minutes lad.
He also starts by :acknowledging that we're meeting here today on stolen land; that the Yuggera and Turrbal peoples remain the rightful owners of Brisbane and that sovereignty was never ceded. I pay my solemn respects to their elders past and present and also in particular at this time to the late TigerBales, an amazing leader and activist, who among many significant achievements helped establish the Murri School at Acacia Ridge and the Brisbane Indigenous Media Association, which still broadcasts on 98.9 FM from its headquarters in West End. I am mindful that it's all well and good to acknowledge the traditional owners in a speech, but actions speak louder than words. I note that Brisbane's Murri communities are deeply affected by the continuing removal of Aboriginal children from their families and by disproportionately high incarceration rates and deaths in custody. I acknowledge the long, proud history of Murri activism in Brisbane's inner south side and the good work of the many underfunded community organisations who provided social support services to First Nations people within The Gabba Ward.:
Alexander Edwards
those : should be "
Christopher Bennett
it's like he played _birsbane_ _adjective_ madlibs with a song by john denver's second rate cousin, jim donner
Charles King
Here he whinges about MY LAND MY LAND
He's a fucking Sri Lankan Tamil, btw, but the way he carries on makes you think he's a fullblood abbo.
Special mention of how the Chairman loses control of the council when everyone starts shouting at him at the end. It's funny watching people get more and more pissed off at him as the minutes move further away from the election and they get sick of his shit.
Thanks for the good laugh before bed. Bring back more sometime.
Nicholas James
so his job is to be a leftie shill
Colton Nelson
>Prior to becoming a City Councillor, Councillor Jonathan Sri has been a mediation facilitator, a youth worker, an events organiser, a law clerk, a carer for refugee children, a musician, a writer and a university tutor
so basically a nothing
Adrian Moore
Probably why he lives with 7 other people in an illegal flophouse.
Being a councillor must be the first time he's made decent money in his life.
Tyler Smith
I'm reminded of my final year of high school, 12 years ago, and in that time they had started doing the "we acknowledge the traditional owners blah blah blah" at the start of every assembly. Every time they did there was a massive groan from the entire audience every single time.
Thinking about it now you'd be probably be crucified if you did that. Although I do still scoff loudly during lectures at uni whenever they say it.
Brody Adams
Is it similar to one of those places that the Sup Forums safety squad was working at shutting down?
Connor Bennett
Oh I bet it just might.
Angel Fisher
This is a long one but it's him waffling, speaking like an idiot, being shouted at by people, and then being checked by the Chairman.
Yes and no. It's definitely illegal but not for safety, just because you can't have more than 5 unrelated adults in a house, but they decided not to fine him.
Thomas Murphy
The Chair is too exasperated for words.
Asher Fisher
I don't know who Simmonds is but he's been consistently based.
Michael Peterson
Nah, that's Councillor Marx's job ;)
Ryan Gonzalez
it'd be a real shame if a safety squad found his haven to be unsafe
Noah Bennett
Only Sutton's time expiring saves Sri from an ass roasting you wouldn't believe here. Worth reading all of it for sure.
Gavin Bennett
Keep posting senpai.
Good reading.
Thomas Powell
>Local governments should all be abolished Are you kiddings me?
William Anderson
wow it's like he thinks city council is the place for him to riff off some sort of speech like robin williams in dead poets society
Landon Bell
Councillor Sri tells other councillors to thank him for not wasting their time with an hour of barrier divided bike paths and insufficient public parks at 11pm at night.
Ryan Jackson
brisbane big.
Sebastian Powell
Where did you find this?
Christian Hughes
lmao he's like michael scott from the office (american edition)
Sri objects to mean words. The offensive statement was "we see the Labor Party Councillors abandon their anti-development stance now and, when it came to vote on the contentious parts of the motion last week, it was like going into the kitchen in the morning and switching the light on and the cockroaches scurry out."
Nolan Gutierrez
>I draw your attention to an act of disorderly conduct, namely the use of what I would describe as emotive and unnecessarily provocative language which might contribute to an adversarial and unconstructive public discourse in this Chamber. fucking kek, saved for future use
Julian Wright
Who the fuck elected this asshole?
Luis Lee
women, hipsters, and minorities
Dylan Fisher
I bet he is one of those faggots who tries to lord it over his house mates that he is a 'councilor' in a pathetic attempt to be relevant.
Andrew Rivera
Brown people and uni students all live in West End, which gets an electorate. This is the first Greens councillor in Brisbane, and he's a fuckshow.
Dominic Myers
If a tier of government should be fucked off, it should be State. Can you imagine what our rates bills would be like if we relied on the State government to manage local government functions? I'm not claiming LG's are angels either, but the bigger the government gets, the more inefficient it becomes, and that only ever costs us more.
Evan Watson
it was an insensitive remark to people like sri, who have cockroaches that like to eat the scraps from the dirty dishes he leaves in the sink
Noah Rivera
Sri's constituents of niggers and retarded tumblrites are too dumb to go to the council website and open the very minutes I am reading and use Ctrl+F to find things.
Benjamin Young
>time because they're all smoking bongs >specialist knowledge guy sounds like a dinosaur
Elijah Gonzalez
>edited out they would have to hire someone full time to do this, and they would actually need "specialist knowledge" it would cost the council an unnecessary 80k/year or more
Blake Ross
"If you kill the enemy, they win." Kek
Elijah Hill
It's true, traffic tends to scale with capacity.
Alexander Roberts
Local Sri has no chill.
Also he's the only councillor who ever asks these stupid questions, because he doesn't understand the proceedings. All the other councillors just say their speeches and so on but he's always trying to figure out what's happening and why.
Nicholas Perry
Okay, all. Thanks for reading along. I'm out for tonight, but I might come back. It's super easy to find the minutes yourself anyway. It's mostly boring garbage but sometimes it's funny.
