Double standards
Malcolm Turnbull reckons:
His own preselection victory over sitting MP Peter King for the blue-ribbon seat of Wentworth had been contentious, rowdy even, but the very soul of the democratic process.
What a load of bollocks. Malcolm Turnbull and Peter King both engaged in a transparent branch-stacking competition. If Labor candidates tried anything similar, the media would maul them — why are they giving Turnbull a free run?
Do you REALLY believe, Robert, that a branch stacking battle, conducted within the rules of a Party between two LEGITIMATE members of that Party, is NOT more democratic than the Federal Executive agreeing to give the preselection to someone who had never been in their Party, and had even OPPOSED their candidates in the past?
Remember, Turnbull [for whom I have no time whatsoever] made as straightforward statement about the question of DEMOCRATIC processes. Sadly, I have to conceed that he was correct, and no amount of disingenuousness on your part, can alter that — unless, of course, you deem Federal Executive selection a better way of doing it? I know that’s closer to Stalin’s “democratic centralism”, but I was under the impression that the W.A. Branch of the Labor Party had abandoned that approach?
Please tell me I’m not mistaken on this point.
p.s. It’s good to be back.
Hullo?