A listener to ABC Breakfast this morning sent in a clever limerick, which went something like this:
There was a young lib. called Bernardi
Who was angry when he found he could hardly
Get his own way
So he took his toys away
And left to form his own party.
The worry now for the Coalition is who else will jump ship to join him. George Christensen and Eric Abetz have been mentioned and some even suggest Tony Abbott might think it's in his interests to take the plunge. Malcolm Turnbull might be wondering what he did in a past life to deserve this karma.
As I write this, Jacqui Lambie's face pops up on the TV screen and I am reminded that, when she was interviewed by Annabel Crabbe, she described Cory Bernardi as an a***hole. Love her or hate her, Jacqui is a good judge of character.
It takes a special kind of arrogance to think it's acceptable to accept a party's endorsement, and access to all their resources, long enough to get elected and then resign to follow your own agenda. There have been one or two LNP members in Queensland who have defected to One Nation and now Bernardi. Integrity is in very short supply in Australian politics at the moment.
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