SENIOR Liberals have warned of a political bloodletting if factions overturn members’ candidate selections for the upcoming federal election.
Legal action and warnings of mass campaign boycotts are underway in response to attempts by powerbrokers to parachute in their factional allies.
- Latest flash point comes as factional heads attempt to replace Warringah nominee Lincoln Parker.
- Senior Liberals warn of wholescale war if factions interfere.
- Legal action underway to stop federal takeover of NSW State Executive.
The latest flash point comes as factional heads attempt to replace Warringah nominee Lincoln Parker with a Left-leaning candidate who failed to even nominate for the seat.
Political heavy weight Walter Villatora, the FEC president to former PM Tony Abbott and current Liberal Party branch president, has warned the move would result in a “civil war in the Party that will go far beyond Warringah”, according to The Sydney Morning Herald today.
FRAGILE
“It could potentially derail the Morrison Government’s already fragile electoral prospects,” Mr Villatora said.
The Sydney Morning Herald was quoting a letter Mr Villatora had allegedly written to members of the NSW State Executive after it had became clear moves were afoot to swap out Mr Parker with factional plant David Brady.
“Mr Brady is a nice person by all accounts, but he is unknown in Warringah and had nominated for the Liberal Senate ticket, not the lower house,” Mr Villatora said.
“It is unacceptable to enforce an ineligible outsider, in this case, David Brady, to be the Liberal candidate for Warringah.
“Warringah is the home of the democratic reform movement. And yet you [State Executive] are proposing to breach the Party’s constitution and install a person whose first contact with the conference will be on the basis of breaching the rules in contempt of the membership from which he will be seeking support.”
Mr Villatora led the successful Democratic Reform Movement ~ a 10-year fist fight that ensured all NSW Liberal Party members won the right to elect candidates by plebiscite.
He also ran campaigns for Mike Baird, which ultimately saw him installed as NSW premier.
FAILED
Other seats being targeted for factional deals include Hughes, where Left-leaning operative Alex Dore is being proposed in place of Melanie Gibbons, currently a NSW MP.
It is understood Mr Dore, who lives outside of Hughes, also failed to nominate for the seat.
While the NSW State Executive has rejected the deals at an emergency meeting held yesterday, there are fears that Federal intervention could come as early as tomorrow.
It is understood Left-leaning NSW Party president Philip Ruddock is supporting the deals.
Right faction organiser Matthew Camenzuli, who is also a member of the NSW Executive, has re-engaged his legal team to challenge any possible federal intervention.
Mr Camenzuli succeeded in a Supreme Court action last week stopping the NSW State Executive from being dissolved to make way for a federally appointed administrator.PC
Maybe the only way for the once great Liberal Party to be properly reformed; is to see it lose power. Then the remaining decent honest non left factional wankers can be put in their place and removed from tokenistic power way beyond their abilities. While we have MPs like Matt Kean of the extreme Left in an important critical position, is it any bloody wonder, that the voters are actively looking elsewhere?
I was a 46 year active non factional member till 2011, but left in disgust at the corrupt attempted takeover of the Party.
Of course the raving Lefties would loathe the thought of someone with expert knowledge about our Defense and protecting this country. They might do worse than discover what began on Dec 7 1941.
Maybe you should have remained in the party. The reason the Left is dominating is because way too many good conservatives deserted in disgust.
LDP, ON, etc
Majors, Greens Last
A very silly plan, wasted vote, preferential voting system trickle down lottery system promotion.
I will vote Greens last because they are the pits, but their Union controlled and managed Labor comrades are not much better, particularly Labor Left Factions with MP members including Albo, whoever he really is behind his latest public image attempt.
So it’s a Coalition candidate for me, in my electorate a National MP.
If there is to be any commonsense in the next election LP, Labor, Greens will be the last on the ballot sheet. LD’s, ON, UAP RUA first 🙂
ACHIEVING NET ZERO
https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2022/03/Kelly-Net-Zero-Progress-Report.pdf?mc_cid=3de10e3d7a&mc_eid=4961da7cb1
Please read this recent publication and send it to your MP.
Look back in history, begin before the 1996 Federal Election at which the Opposition Leader Howard Coalition defeated the Keating Labor Government, and focus on reported to have been one of the biggest branch stacking exercises, Wentworth Electorate in Sydney when sitting Liberal MP Peter King was replaced as Liberal candidate for election by Malcolm Turnbull who narrowly won that seat.
The website stopturnbull.com has a very revealing timeline of history events including the ambition to wreck the Liberal Party of Australia favouring an all powerful governing alliance including Labor and Greens, no doubt including what became known as the LINO faction (Black Hand) of left leaning people.
Many remaining Menzies’ Australian Liberal Party members including Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison have been doing their best to regain control.
The above explains the headline “Liberal war escalates”, and why Liberals and Nationals are so angry.
This all had to blow up eventually, it was just a matter of time. We simply can’t carry the cancerous, corrupt left anymore, and we’ve only stayed in power this long due to the generosity of Labor’s and the Green’s policies, and the largesse afforded to us by their tribe of deadbeats. It’s a stretch to imagine the likes of Kristina Keneally in power, but the lib left is working overtime to put her and other Labor luminaries into office.
Titanic and deck chairs come to mind. Disgusting. If the LNP simply supported conservative values and opposed the crap of the left – climate change, renewables, gender wars and wokeism generally – it would win every election; that and closing the abc. But they lack the will.
Judith Sloan wrote in The Australian newspaper recently that our Federal Coalition Government did not commit to net zero emissions despite being pressured to do so. I knew that the Prime Minister had only gone as far as stating that Australia has “an aspirational goal” subject to research and development of new technology, and with no damage to the economy. In January 2022 in a video link address to the NGO WEF Conference in Davos the PM told delegates that Australia would not adopt the WEF economic model but would continue to support free enterprise, businesses etc., and work to strengthen the economy.
Earlier at the UN IPCC COP26 Conference in Glasgow the PM also refused requests for Australia to ban coal mining.
Unfortunately Australia represents about 2-3% of the global economy and with 26 million people our nation is quite small, we rely on export trade and our allies, so our Government cannot simply walk away from the woke world of stupidity, but they understand the dangers we face including from nations growing economic and financial strength based on reliable and low cost electricity supply and other advantages.
Scandalous and corrupt behaviour by a discredited State Exec. It is time to introduce plebiscites of all members to elect the executive.
The Liberals will be dog meat if they renege on the party member’s overwhelming decision to give grassroot members a say in selecting their own local candidates.
Morrison appeared to have agreed with the members until the rubber hit the road.
Now he is doing all he can to reverse it without saying so. Pathetic, weak and treacherous.
“Pathetic, weak and treacherous.”
Just as I observed a long time ago – all one has to do is watch him speak; it’s always been clearly apparent what a complete waste of space he is. It’s a shame that members of the “Liberal” party are so slow on the uptake, otherwise they could have taken the necessary action before things came to such a sorry pass.
It is fabulous watching the conservatives eat their own faces.
Don’t be smug, as your former Labor Party Leader Mark Latham wrote about in The Australian Financial Review after he left Federal Parliament Union controlled Labor has many factions and many factional wars, factions that are on good terms and factional enemies, and dirt files on opponents.
As journalist Max Walsh wrote in The Bulletin Magazine during 2006, the Union Movement had successfully carried out “a corporate-style takeover” of the ALP and are controlling and managing the ALP, Union trained executives have been placed in safe Labor seats replacing sitting Labor MPs. The primary objective being to manage and control the governments of Australia eventually.
What an alliance that would be, pity about us and our nation. Unions, Labor, Greens and LINO with their close recruits, if elected, candidates masquerading as Independent, strangely the collective of several not a political party, of course not.
The electroate of Warringah is currently being hit by a rain bomb, the last thing we need is a captains pick candidate dropped into warringah that will cause a nuclear bomb.
Give us a break, and let us win the seat back.
You will of course need a candidate from the “sensible right” like the Independent now MP campaigned as.
/sarc.