Slipper – good riddance!
There is positives abound with the new political order. We have off-loaded Slipper with all his baggage and set up a clear path for Mal Brough to reenter the fray in the next parliament.
Gillard expects us to believe that she knew nothing untill 7:30am yesterday. Some will but some swinging voters won’t and they will add to the tally of Australians just sitting waiting for a chance to sack her.
The Left and rusted on ALP supporters are all over the LNP “shooting themselves in the foot” over Slipper. Tell me, what were we to do with him? He was a lead weight, confused about his loyalties and without any sense of economy or justification for his travel and phone expenses.
Why would we hang on to him when we have winners of the class of Brough waiting in the wings. He was never going to be a LNP team player.
I say good riddance and good luck to Julia. From experience I know you need luck to survive a hand grenade with a loose pin.
If I was an ALP true believer I wouldn’t be feeling all that secure with grenades labelled ‘Peter Slipper’ and ‘Craig Thomson’ rattling around the bunker.
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Ah Slippery Slipper, once a National, once a Liberal,Once an LNP and Once a Speaker. It is a pity all the above did not have the courage to dump him years ago, he has a history.
But I suppose he owed loyality to the consertatives then or some high ranking Liberals or NLP’s owed him something. I wonder who is quivvering in their boots Slippery Pete or those worried he has some inside dirt?
The sad part about politics is he has been rewarded with a $100 000.00 pay rise.
As to who knew, well the Opposition applauded Harry Jenkins and soke highly of him. They can’t now turn around and complain there is some great conspiracy.
I live in Peter’s electorate.
People here don’t vote Peter, he is a never here type character as far as I can make out. Where as the local state member Fiona Simpson (national) is generally well regarded as a community local candiate.
Mal is an excellent candidate with a proven track record and a really good fit with Tony’s team. His time away from federal politics has been well spent in indigenous issues.
Mal may have some of the work for the dole or women back to work issues, I don’t know with the female electorate, but generally women have turned off the Julia experiment as unrepresentative of themselves.
The Julia issue is real.
“Why would we hang on to him”
Good question, Kev. He was first elected in 1984, and has been representing the Coalition (in one form or another) in his electorate ever since.
He’s been OK, apparently, as far as the Coalition was concerned for 27 years. He’s been their chosen candidate all that time.
I wonder whether Abbott is regretting tearing up the agreement to pair the speaker. Looks like it’s returned to bite him on the bum.
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“He’s been OK, apparently, as far as the Coalition was concerned for 27 years.”
And oddly enough for the Department of Finance and Deregulation given his regular rort repayments. Still he was not going to be pre-selected again so it’s obvious the Coalition has some scruples, unlike Gillard, who embraced the rat AFP investigation and all.
A dark day for Labor and of course Wilkie who can kiss his pokies’ pre-commitment legislation goodbye.
Nothing like a bit of political expedience to keep the loonies at bay.
I think we will be paying for John Howard’s attachment to 21 gun salutes for many years to come.
Had he stepped down in favour of Peter Costello we would not have had any of the Rudd/Gillard/Swan disasters.
Likewise, had he not subscribed to the principle that a sitting member was not to be challenged for pre-selection, Slipper would have gone years ago.
Lest some reader offer up the above as proof of Howard’s evilness, let me get in first by noting that Hawke also disregarded de Gaulle’s comment that: “The world’s cemeteries are full of indispensable men”.
Both men stayed too long – this was not to the benefit of the country.
Simple fact, Abbott inherited him. Gillard selected him.