Satire Veep's Slogan Used By Australian PM
A "meaningless election slogan" created for the political comedy is used by Malcolm Turnbull in a number of interviews.
Writers for the award-winning show wanted to create a
"meaningless" slogan but PM Malcolm Turnbull has been using the words
"continuity" and "change" in a number of interviews.
The line is very close to the "Continuity with Change"
slogan used by the fictional politician Selina Meyer in Veep.
"I am dumbstruck," Louis-Dreyfus tweeted in response.
Veep writer Simon Blackwell was more severe: "In S4 of Veep we
came up with the most meaningless election slogan we could think of. Now
adopted by Australian PM," he tweeted.
Mr Turnbull has used the words at least three times
Mr Turnbull is trying to convince voters how
his government is different to that of his conservative Liberal Party colleague
Tony Abbott who he removed from office in an internal party coup last
September.
"There is continuity," he admitted on Monday to the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
"So, as you go from one Liberal prime minister to another, you
have continuity and you have change and there has been a lot of change,"
he said.
He followed up the next day with a radio interview in which he said:
"There is continuity and there is change and there are many areas of
change."
And he repeated it again on Tuesday to reporters: "The bottom
line is there is continuity and there is change."
It's not the first time the multi-millionaire has been connected
with a American political show, following the tongue-in-cheek suggestion after
his ascension to power that he and his high-powered wife Lucy could be compared
to the ruthless characters of Frank and Claire Underwood from House Of Cards.
"I have nothing in common with Frank Underwood other than that
we both use a rowing machine," Turnbull joked at the time.
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