Liberal candidate for the swing seat of McEwen Chris Jermyn rose to notoriety in late May over his inability to articulate his party’s policy on the freeze of Medicare rebates while attempting to ambush Bill Shorten in late May. Then today came the revelation he might have broken electoral law in 2013 by claiming to live in a house that doesn’t exist. McEwen, by the way, is the most marginal seat in the country — Labor member Rob Mitchell won it in 2013 by 313 votes.
It was Jermyn’s social media presence that initially allowed Fairfax to pick up on the discrepancies between where Jermyn lived and where he said he lived. Indeed, anyone wishing to know more about the man trying to prise McEwen back from Labor need look no further than his remarkably accessible Facebook page
Jermyn is not a fan of British Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn, referring to him as #thedearleader and suggestively noting a similarity between Corbyn and former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
And don’t even get him started on Domino’s with misleading opening hours on its websites.
Indeed, Domino’s has failed him many times.
His feelings on tacos and the deliciousness of swine, however, are much more positive.
And if you want his thoughts on how to do Sunday arvos right, it’s chilling with some sports you’re watching on a couple of almost certainly legal streaming sites.
And for a man with some significant memory failings, he seems happy to throw shade at Labor leader Bill Shorten for same.
Might we suggest he throw a like the way of this page?
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