It’s as if Prime Minister Scott Morrison barely got to enjoy a moment’s relief as the litany of public figures willing to explicitly call him a liar tailed off before they were replaced by an even longer list of people willing to call him a bully.
Crikey has been keeping a list of politicians and prominent figures who have launched scathing attacks on the PM’s character, on and off the record, and today we have a new name to add.
Joining Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, Pauline Hanson, Jacqui Lambie, Julia Banks and others is departing NSW MLC Catherine Cusack. In an excoriating op-ed titled “I’m a Liberal MP and I cannot vote for the re-election of a Scott Morrison government”, she says the Liberal Party has been trashed under Morrison’s watch.
With friends like these…
Look it makes some fairly dubious claims — the idea that the Liberal Party has “no interest group like trade unions (Labor) or environmentalists (Greens)” to overlook a LOT of, say, Fair Work Commission appointments. But all is forgiven for content reasons. Come on, we wouldn’t be without passages like:
I thought forcing moderates to vote for Craig Kelly in Hughes prior to the last election was the worst. But [Morrison] has outdone himself engineering a federal intervention to jump over the organisation altogether … And in the process, our president, Philip Ruddock, who used to be a highly respected party warrior, looks like a complete tool.
Cusack isn’t a stranger to publicly calling out behaviour she doesn’t like. Indeed she resigned two weeks ago amid her disgust for the lack of government support for flood victims in south-east Queensland and northern NSW — and you can see that this instance was a big inspiration behind her claims of Morrison being a bully.
To see the self-serving ruthless bullying that has increased inside the Liberal Party spill over into public policy and the poorest most vulnerable Australians who lost everything in the floods are the targets of this outrageous abuse of morality and power is simply intolerable.
Now if someone would pen one of these pieces when they hadn’t already decided to pack it in …
Yet another ‘disappointed’ Liberal? Disappointment seems to be running amok in the party, as contagious as a nit infestation.
A fair comparison – parasites feeding off the body (politic) and contributing nothing but ill health.
YEP And Sco Mo To Slo No Show is now promoting himself as the victim, as his own party members line up to describe him as unfit to be PM because of his behavior and his habit to bully, lie.and attempt to run a one man government
Yep. None of it had anything to do with the rest of them. None of it! They swear! They’ve signed stat decs! A term or two on the opposition benches and they’ll be back with Josh ( or worse) and all will be forgiven.
No longer than that.
Why? Because we need revolution, not renewal. Too much damage for too long for a bit of Botox and a mini facelift.
The Hawke and Keating governments achieved revolution without blood shed.
It will take time for all the changes to be brought in and people are mentally lazy.
Class traitors, such as that pair, did the work of gutting the unions the Right’s eternal wet dream.
The deluded True Believers only realised the betrayal too late.
Please keep in mind they are usually poor feeble minded females, nothing to see here.
Gaslighter in Chief, seems to indicate the new title.
A very common practice in male dominated cults, I am told.
Maybe, just maybe, for a fleeting moment, the disappointed Liberals might experience the trauma of the ‘disappointed’, traumatised fire and flood victims.
“Ow, wouldn’t it be loverly – Lov-Er-Ly?” Oh yes, please! But not just for a fleeting moment.3-9 years at least would be good.
We have known for years that Morrison is a lying, incompetent and corrupt grub. But it is extraordinary, indeed unprecedented, for so many ‘colleagues’ to now agree publicly.
Yet the media still talks up his prospects of winning the election. I suppose we are about to get an accurate gauge of exactly how inattentive and stupid is the Australian electorate.
yes, even the ABC seems to be hunting for ways in which he might winn the election . . .
I think it has more to do with what rubbish Clive Palmer is paying to be on Face Book this time.
Depressing, isn’t it?
… “Liar and a bully”? Is that “liabul”?
Cry bully. The first thing they do is deny their appalling behaviour. The newish off-the-shelf psycho-bully considers truth to be relative and an unnecessary impediment to their own idea of justice.
Gaslighter in chief, he has never met a woman yet, that he can’t have everyone wondering if the poor dear is sane.
Sly, sneaky,liar and bully ,but, the most insidious and pernicious is the gaslighting.
Be careful with that liebul, you may get sued for libel…
I claim the defense of truth.
With that and $5 (or is it now $7?) you can get a cup of coffee.
Doesn’t she get the concept of using the Kirribilli whiteboard for relief calculations that define the ‘marginal’ nature of the disaster ?