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Libs won’t touch the Howard inner circle
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Crikey understands that Janette Howard effectively vetoed Liberal Party efforts for serious online campaigning last year. “Howard’s wife and closest confident, Janette, had become so entrenched in the campaign structure that few dared to challenge her opinions,” Pam Williams wrote in her Royal Family feature in the Fin last year. “Her views were imposed in even minor matters such as lighting and the colours in advertising brochures…” So Crikey gathers. Even now the Liberals are still showing deference to the Royal Family, the former PM, his wife and a small, close circle of friends and family. They appear reluctant to let daylight in on magic. Even magic of Ron Weasley standard. Forget the hype. Monday’s Four Corners was tame. Liberals are too scared to go on the record. Despite this, Glenn Milne commented on the weekend:
Howard’s own division of the party, the NSW Liberals, is in such a state they cannot find a state director. Liberal insiders claim federal director Brian Loughnane’s fingerprints were on Williams’ report in much the same way as Labor’s national secretary at the time of the 1996 defeat, Gary Gray, had his dabs all over Williams’ election post mortems back then, making excuses for failing to stand up to the leader in the face of defeat. They say he is tied to Brendan Nelson’s shaky leadership (his wife is on Nelson’s staff). Instead, as Crikey first reported back in January and The Age repeated earlier this month, deputy director Linda Reynolds is being set up as the fall guy. In the dying weeks of John Howard’s government, his own formula on what would determined if he stayed or went changed from the confidence of his own party to the support of his family. The Liberals were too scared to plot against the Royal Family then. Even though they should be free of their spell an enfeebled party is still too scared to let daylight in on magic. |
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According to the senile David Barnett Howard only lost because he was old and bald.
Perhaps it’s really a matter of respect and appreciation from most Liberals who understand Howard’s record of success and achievement makes him a giant in Australian history who will be warmly remembered long after the left / media pigmies are gone.
Remember the chaos that followed Menzies overdue retirement and what it did to the Liberal party…..how the infighting went on for several years while the party tore itself to pieces……Both parties could bring in new rules limiting the PM to 2 terms
Or perhaps, Tony P, Howard spent so long drowning all the talented Lib wets that nobody left could remember what the party even stood for, let alone take the lead and look convincing. Big tax and big spend is hardly a great Tory legacy, but it’s Howard’s.
HOWARD’S MISSUS ! Fuck Me, is THIS all we’ve got left to whine about? Howard will no doubt ‘Recline the test of Time’ and will be most remembered for his turd-like qualities. “The ‘Unflushable’, said Keating and One should know One- but really- WHO CARES?
Howards profile on Washington Speakers Bureau;”He delivered economic vision and strategies for international security that raised Australia’s profile on the world stage while gaining the respect and gratitude of the world” Respect and gratitude. Whatever!
gerard- It is foolhardy not to examine the past, its only from studying or debating our mistakes that we learn not to repeat them. eg. Notice how I have learnt from your mistake and not used F*#K, a more civilised society is a good thing don’t you think?
C’mon, folks, surely you saw ABC’s 7.30 Report lastnight? John Clarke hit the nail right on the head with his representation of 4 Corners. I loved the Titanic references: ” I was on the front deck, looking for icebergs, nah, I didn’t see any “…Aahahaha.
I’m sorry but this cannot stand- what the HELL is wrong with the Ronald Weasley standard? Has Jannette shot any dark wizards down from the back of a moving broom lately? Destroyed a horcrux? Won a quiddich cup? Married Hermione Granger?
So the poison dwarf notched up another cut on her chastity belt! And her would be knight of the garter JWH scooped her train, embroidered with the map of Australia, out of the gutter and with his moist frog’s mouth working overtime, he bowed deeply. Ma’am
In politics information, especially dirt on your colleagues, not just the opposition is the power, perhaps the Howard court has the best dirt collection in the country and that enables them to help themselves first and foremost, Howard never played clean.