David Pocock, one of the stars of the rugby World Cup, has the All Blacks and Tony Abbott in his sights.
Ahead of Saturday’s final against New Zealand, the Australian flanker took time to have a pop at the former prime minister for his Margaret Thatcher lecture earlier in the week, in which he argued the instinct to “love thy neighbour” had left Europe on the verge of catastrophe.
@bairdjulia you must've missed the translation that says, "love thy (white) neighbour"... https://t.co/rpKak7OWsA
— David Pocock (@pocockdavid) October 29, 2015
Pocock was responding to a tweet from the writer Julia Baird, linking to her column for ABC’s The Drum, which argued that “love thy neighbour” was “not optional but compulsory. And caring for the orphans, the widows, the strangers is not just an occasional, arbitrary tangent in the Bible but a central theme throughout”.
Pocock tweeted: “You must’ve missed the translation that says, ‘love thy (white) neighbour’.”
He also linked to a sketch of comedian Will Ferrell impersonating George W Bush, where he says: “Don’t embarrass me in front of Jesus.”
Abbott argued in his speech: “Implicitly or explicitly, the imperative to love your neighbour as you love yourself is at the heart of every western polity … but right now this wholesome instinct is leading much of Europe into catastrophic error.”
Earlier this week Pocock said he would like David Attenborough to be his guest at the World Cup final – “he’s a legend”.
