Yes, it gets worse every single day. “Psycho” Morrison is embroiled in a party insurrection that is destroying his prime ministership:
The NSW Court of Appeal will on Friday decide whether Scott Morrison can have the final say over which candidates are selected in 12 seats across NSW – shielding three of his senior MPs from preselection challenges – just days out from the federal election being called.
High Court Chief Justice Susan Kiefel rejected an attempt by the Prime Minister’s legal representatives to move the case directly to the nation’s highest court, remitting it back to the NSW Court of Appeal. But she said the High Court could hear an appeal as soon as Tuesday.
During a special leave hearing on Thursday afternoon, the Attorney-General Michaelia Cash made an extraordinary application in support of Mr Morrison’s right to pick his own candidates in the face of factional warfare inside the NSW division.
It was this very debacle that unleashed Senator Ferrvanti0-Wells. She now has the full backing of Pauline Hanson and Jacquie Lambie is her assessment of “Psycho” Morrison:
But guess who’s paying for “Pscyho” Morrison’s defence? You:
The government argues that the use of the Solicitor-General — who generally represents the Commonwealth in legal matters — is in line with normal protocols.
However, Labor frontbencher Ed Husic said the Liberal Party should be funding its own representation.
“The Liberal Party rakes in enough dollars of its own to be able to fund its own cases. It does not need to use taxpayer funds to sort its political mess out,” he said.
“And I think people want to see taxpayer funds used wisely, and for the things that matter most and make a difference in their lives.”
…Further fuelling Labor’s attack is another matter that was heard in the High Court earlier on Thursday.
The court dismissed an application by the Victorian branch of the Labor Party — which wanted to challenge the federal branch over its control of the preselection process — after a branch-stacking scandal.
In that matter, the Commonwealth Government played no role.
Of course, it’s inappropriate. It’s an internal LNP stoush about preselection. Its taxpayer fund misallocation in plain sight.
Thankfully, we can always rely on “Psycho” Morrison’s ineptitude:
The ongoing slap-fight between the state and federal divisions of the Liberal Party will reach its conclusion on Friday when a court decides whether Scott Morrison and others have the authority to parachute their preferred candidates into a swag of unfilled seats.
But it’s the matter of Hughes, an electorate in Sydney’s south held by former Liberal Craig Kelly on a 9.9 per cent margin, where Morrison’s guiding hand has caused no end of ructions. First, local preselections were cancelled by the party’s federal executive. It then emerged Morrison was preparing to install an unlikely captain’s pick over a slew of preferred nominees.
And now, in a twist of tragic and comic ineptitude, it seems that prospective candidate Gwen Cherne is unable to stand for parliament. A family advocate commissioner at the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Cherne is a dual-national, born in Cleveland, Ohio (state motto: “With God, all things are possible”), who received Morrison’s private backing ahead of local lawyer Jenny Ware and Holsworthy MP Melanie Gibbons.
With a bit of luck, the freedom fighters of the NSW LNP will win and “Psycho” Morrison find himself declaring an election with nine NSW seats absent candidates!
It would bit a fitting end to a truly disordered prime ministership.
