Minchin destroys the Liberal Party to save it
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Nick Minchin has devoted his heart and soul to the Liberal Party, full-time, since 1977. That’s when he signed on as a 24-year-old staffer in the party’s federal secretariat, rising through the ranks of the South Australian party machine to become a Senator in 1993. He is a fervent protector of Liberal conservative values, the spiritual as well as the actual leader of the party’s right wing. Last week on Four Corners, Senator Minchin decided, in effect, to put the Liberal Party “into play” by not only publicly challenging his leader’s position on the CPRS but also insisting that a majority in the Coalition do not “believe that human beings are … the main cause of the planet warming”. It was a calculated performance by one of the country’s shrewdest political tacticians who knew precisely how the media and his colleagues would react. Nick Minchin apparently thinks the state of the Liberal Party under the leadership of Malcolm Turnbull is so bad that he seems to have decided to follow the strategy of the American major in Vietnam who ordered the destruction of the Village Ben Tre: “It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it.” Has Nick Minchin actually reached the point where he believes the Liberal Party must be destroyed to be saved? |
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10 Comments
The Liberals under Turnbull ARE dead.
At least Nick never went seeking membership of the Labor Party.
Turnbull failed at that too.
Do you have a preferred leader in mind MPM? I think the poor buggers are pretty much stuck. The ignominy of Opposition.
Andrew Robb
He’s still a bit crook isn’t he?
My favourite suspicion at the moment is that all the Liberals hate Turnbull. They know there are almost never 1 term Governments, so they’re putting Turnbull up as a sacrificial lamb for punishment at the ballot box. He will get flogged, leave politics, and the next proper Liberal leader will emerge.
Nice conspiracy theory.
A better humiliation of Turnbull’s treasonous character will be to see him overthrown by a Party room revolt.
Never fear though, for Malcolm will be Kevin’s next attache to the UN on ‘Climate Change’. A reward for his bi-partisan olive-branching.
Andrew Robb has been purposely kept out of the public eye.
Once next month’s ersatz LegoLand Fayre is out of the way he will re-appear.
Its conceivable that the party could split over this. Climate change is just the most obvious of the growing separation between the conservative and moderates on any number of issues.
This wouldn’t be all bad. It’d mean that people could actually be represented by someone they are closer to agreeing with rather than being stuck with whoever is selected for your electorate. Yes I number below the line in the senate.
Agree with ENERGYPEDANT. It wouldn’t be bad at all if a real “liberal” party emerged - then all the “God, Queen and Country” types can do their own thing and see how many people will support them. Also, a rump “Liberal-Democrat” organisation could emerge as a more intelligent alternative. Time to end the dupoply between Labor and the Coalition.
Energypedant & Tomboy, I think you’re right - it may come to a split. It would be good to be able to support a party without having to cringe at every second public comment that is made.
That was probably a bit harsh of me. I apologise to anyone who is offended.
Those wanting a Liberal split probably need to keep dreaming I’m afraid. Even the shambles of a parliamentary wing they have at the moment have enough residual common sense to see that would leave both halves out of office for decades (alla the DLP/ALP).
I can certainly sympathise with the sentiment; I could certainly get behind a socially moderate and economically pragmatic party free from the dictates and structure of Unions or vested business interests. However that pretty much describes (at least in early times) the Democrats (who I did support, even if I was too young to vote when it mattered) so there doesn’t appear to be an overwhelming hankering for such a party in the general public.