A political schism once begun cannot be stopped. It develops a force of its own and moves in ways that cannot be controlled. The consequences can only be appreciated after the fires have been extinguished.
Scott Morrison will be sworn in as the 30th Prime Minister of Australia. The fight is not over. In many ways, it has only just begun. He won the spill 45 votes to Dutton’s 40. Julie Bishop was knocked out in the first round of voting. Morrison’s deputy is Josh Frydenberg.
Malcolm Turnbull’s delaying tactics allowed Morrison to assemble the numbers. He almost certainly did not have them yesterday.
n the comings days, expect the words “healing”, “repair”, “revival” and “restoration” to be vomited out of a thesaurus by senior Liberal figures. These words will be a nonsense, yet another damning exercise in the party’s obsession with introspection.
Full column here.
I say, Mr. Insider just had a look “over the wall” and 350 comments by early this Saturday morning. The Liberal chaos has certainly stirred the juices. Some sadly must be living on MARS as they are bare-facededly defending the chaos of the Lib/Nats. Cheers
The Lib/Nats are disgracefully treating the shrewd Aussie Voter like fools imho, Mr Insider. Almost pretending they did us a favour with their shambolic behaviour and saying to us they can restore trust. BOLLOCKS I say, it’s like a burglar has ransacked your house and phones you up saying “trust me I won’t do it again!!
It pains me to say it but the big winner yesterday was our Labor PM in waiting William Richard Shorten.
The Liberal party can’t get rid of wrecker ex-ousted PM Tony Abbott so its left to the clever voters of Australia to banish him and his dysfunctional Liberal party to possibly 10 years on the Backbench.
The voters are fools Henry
I was bemused to hear MT talking about loyalty in his speech.
Yairs Razor. He is crap at deadpan comedy, you’re supposed to be amused not bemused.
Get up to speed man, he thought he was being hilarious.
Someone must have shown it to him in the dictionary.
Loyalty is a dirty word in parliament from all sides Razor. 😔
Rubble or rabble?
Take your pick.
In this instance they are not mutually exclusive.
Vibble vobble
That bottle’s going to be well aged if it gets used Razor
Desali is back.
The irony for Peter Dutton is delicious!
It’ll be interesting to see how the voting public views the latest Coalition upheaval.
Shouldn’t be anymore. Not at this end anyway.
Longman was a disaster for the coalition mate so I can’t see Dickson being any different. That guy is very unpopular.
JTI I’m not JackS this morning, back to me, which is nice. 😊
Oh this isnt finished by a long shot Jack. How about the latest on Chrisitine Forster running for the seat to be vacated by Lord Wentworth. Can you imagine Malcolm turning up at the preselection to offer his warm wishes, cuddling up with Christine and her brother Tony on the other arm? If they were both a bit younger they’d get a gig for the Wallabies on stubborn mongrelness alone.
I cant wait for the Ministerial selections to be announced. Who will be the ruckman, rover and full forward? More to the point how many wil be on the bench?
It would appear the favourite to win preselection is Dave Sharma, formerly Australia’s Ambassador to Israel. Christine is very nice person, by the way.
The Desali’s are back in this comment box Jack!
I’ve had a bit of a tinker. Let me know how comments appear, if they disappear or if names, emails of others are caching, please.
I’ve been JackS for days JTI & my posts are on 51 comments but mine have disappeared into thin air.
Yes, me too Bella. I think that my posts that had JackSprat in the address box have all gone nowhere – even though I overwrote the JS address
As of 5pm I only had 34 comments although it said 51 comments, went back to the earlier comments on the first page and it stated 14 comments overall.
Jack Sprat’s name and email below, but checked on my husbands desktop, hell trying to use a mouse again and the name and email are as they should be, suspect it’s my iPad and it’s the same on the iPhone.
I was reading Mal and Lucy spent $130K out of their own substantial pockets to restore Jo Lyons’s couch and some curtains at the Lodge. I hope some young staffer doesn’t get too excited at the demolition party tonight at zuffle the curtains. Will Mal and Lucy soil the couch? So many big questions yet to be answered.
We shouldn’t be too concerned about the country being “ungoverned”. If anything we’re over-governed. And besides, Belgium was ungoverned for over 540 days back in 2010-11 and during that period their economy reportedly outperformed the UK, Germany, France and a host of other European countries.
I doubt that a healthy political schism every now and then wouldn’t harm the body politic.
You aren’t serious are you Carl darling were you on the vino when you wrote that honey?
The public servants and departmental heads run the country-they always have Bald.
Pollies do S W F All
Um, why do I appear to be logged in as Des and Liz?
Log out and log back in with your own details, please.