Beware the Dan trap | The Spectator Australia

Melbourne businesses are preparing to open up — what’s left of them — and Victoria’s Stockholm Syndrome is in full frenzy. The #IStandWithDan brigade have reached the state where they’d happily reenact The Life of Brian’s “Now fuck off!” “How shall we fuck off, oh Lord?” scene, the Age is acting like a dowager flinging her knickers at a Tom Jones concert and what’s going on at the ABC is too disgusting to recount.

And the businesses that won’t be opening? The jobs that are already gone? This is where it gets very interesting indeed — and potentially dangerous for the federal government.

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