The ugly side of the Liberal Party

The shame of Indi ~ self-serving to the end.

Sophie Mirabella:

Self-serving, disloyal and plain wrong

Of all that has been said and written so far about the bizarre events surrounding the current Liberal party leadership crisis, none stands out as more disloyal and self-serving than what Federal member for Indi Sophie Mirabella has said in this piece in today’s Sunday Age newspaper.

You can click on the above link and read it for yourself if you like OR, if you prefer, you can read this edited (and more correct) version over the fold.

My corrections are in blue.

I think I might have put Sophie’s words into a better perspective:

(I am) Disloyal and dismissive

SOPHIE MIRABELLA
November 29, 2009

Why Turnbull Mirabella must go

THIS week’s events in Canberra are unprecedented in the 22 years I have been a member of the Liberal Party. Malcolm Turnbull  I, along with quite a few other rednecks & retrogrades like Abbott, Minchin, Tuckey & good ol’ Bronwyn Bishop, broke the basic protocol that binds the loyalty of the party room to the leader. He We have totally disregarded and misrepresented the majority view of the Coalition party room in announcing that there was no support for an amended emissions trading scheme.

It is ironic notable that in his defiant heroic and statesman-like speech on Thursday night Malcolm Turnbull invoked the names of both Margaret Thatcher and John Howard. These were leaders who instinctively knew the importance of ensuring some degree of backbench consensus providing strong leadership and who always had a finger on the pulse of the public mood. The events of this week have shown that Mr Turnbull clearly fails succeeds and surpasses the likes of me and my self-serving cronies on both counts.

It was an amazing situation to have the leader of the Liberal Party  a bunch of dickheads like Abbott, Minchin, Tuckey & yours truly totally dismiss the views of his own the party room in order to “honour” an alleged avoid honouring the agreement with the Labor Government. It shows a real lack of political understanding, especially on my part. In any event, there never clearly was an agreement to honour. The party room resolved that any negotiations between the Liberal and Labor leadership had to be ratified by the party room and they were. No such approval has been given; quite the contrary to what I and the other miscreants said.

The reasonable approach would have been to recommend that more time be provided for the Senate to examine the new bill in committee and to await the outcome of the Copenhagen conference at which any collective actions of the major greenhouse emitters of the world, China, India, Russia and the US will be disclosed, before finalising any significant commitment. for me and the other dickheads to keep our big fat mouths shut.

Hark back to when Turnbull publicly staked his leadership on passage of Labor’s ETS. In doing so, he linked his political fate to Labor’s ETS was 100% right. His comments over the past few days make it clear that however he dresses it up, he has been used by Kevin Rudd reinforce how right he was. If anyone should doubt this, consider that Malcolm Turnbull has adopted the Government’s simplistic moral blackmail that if you oppose Labor’s ETS you are clearly  clearly & correctly pointed out that I and my fellow renegades are an enemy of the planet.

Turnbull’s insistence that his actions are based on the electorate’s need for urgent action are reminiscent of a significant failure his correct and rightful pushing of the republican cause in 1999. At that time, Turnbull pointed to the polls that showed a general favourability to the concept of a republic. But on important issues, people don’t vote for ”concepts” – they vote for models and they vote for details contained in legislation. When the flaws of the proposed republic model (that I cunningly changed to a flawed model – with John Howard’s assistance) were articulated, the Australian public comprehensively rejected it.

The same can be said of my misrepresentation of Labor’s ETS. Even the most ardent supporters of no action on climate change don’t like this my model – the Greens have been highly critical of it and believe it doesn’t fulfil the environmental objectives. Turnbull has obviously not learnt the lesson that I will always try to pull the wool over the eyes of the Australian public who cannot does distinguish between a  my lies concept and a concrete proposal, or at least that’s what I thought.

Labor’s model is a dud because it creates a new tax without the only model put forward for saving the planet. And that’s why, when people learn more about what it involves, that I have no policy on climate change whatsoever they are opposed to it me - no matter what views they have on climate change.

It’s quite sad that, just as in the republic debate, opposition to my position on the ETS is being characterised found out as “wanting to return to the past” or “turning back the clock”. This is not the case and it’s sad because it is costing me my cushy MP position and now my lazy husband will have to go out and get a real job to support us.

Sophie Mirabella is the soon to be former Liberal member for the federal seat of Indi.

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