Desperate to repair “Psycho” Morrison’s shattered image, LNP campaign strategists decided to take a risk and put him back in public. That’ll be the last time that they try.
The problem is, you can’t take “Psycho” Morrison anywhere. His entire career is a blood-soaked act of climbing the greasy pole and the pile of corpses at the base has risen above the pole itself.
To wit, don’t even take him into coal-worshipping Newcastle pub:
“Congratulations on being the worst Prime Minister we’ve ever had.’ @ hunting4wolveshttps://t.co/zM6wq5YtD4
— pilliga (@BluegumPilliga) April 6, 2022
Let’s not forget the last time the minders let the “Psycho” appear anywhere:
Wherever he goes, rage follows, even from his own side:
Michael Towke, the man who Scott Morrison beat to become the MP for the Sydney seat of Cook 15 years ago, claims a serving federal cabinet minister has encouraged him to speak out about his alleged bad experiences with the now prime minister.
…“I’ve got text messages from a cabinet minister telling me ‘I believe you’ and do what you need to do, just be careful,” Towke told Network Ten’s The Project on Wednesday night.
Towke would not reveal the identity of the minister but said it was someone “more aligned” with Morrison and that people would be surprised by their identity.
“This person is a minister of the crown, this person I’ve never had contact with before, this person sent me a text message, and it’s like, ‘Hey, Michael, this is XYZ – obviously in confidence along those lines – just want you to know I believe you, do what you feel you need to do, just be careful’,” Towke said. “That is pretty sound advice.”
When asked by host Waleed Aly what he needed to be careful about, Towke said that he had been separately told by respected Canberra journalists that “people associated” with Morrison were backgrounding against him attempting to link him to neo-Nazi groups.
“Similar to 2007, there is desperation here, and they will go to any lengths to try and deal with that,” Towke said.
And let’s not leave out Concetta Ferravanti-Wells:
Nor Galdys Berejiklian:
Nor Catherine Cusack, Pauline Hanson, Jacquie Lambie, Julia Banks, Christine Holgate, Grace Tame, Malcolm Turnbull, John Hewson and Barnaby Joyce.
Nor the “Psycho”‘s spiritual guide with whom he is locked in some death embrace of public scrutiny:
Two former European pastors have accused Hillsong co-founder Brian Houston and the church’s general manager of sending threatening emails during a dispute over the transfer of their church, cash, and assets to Hillsong Australia.
Zhenya and Vera Kasevich led the congregations of Hillsong Kyiv and Hillsong Moscow for two decades.
They have spoken to 7.30 for the first time about the circumstances behind their sudden departure from the megachurch.
It comes as the Pentecostal juggernaut faces one of its worst crises since its establishment in the early 1980s.
Last month, Hillsong’s Sydney-based global pastor Brian Houston resigned after the church revealed it had received complaints from two women about his behaviour.
Since then, nine Hillsong branches in the US have broken away from the church.
Now, the former lead pastors of the Kyiv and Moscow churches say they too attempted to break away from the church in 2014.
They say they ultimately chose to hand over their churches and assets after Brian Houston threatened to open a rival Hillsong church in Kyiv.
At that time, the Kasevichs were planning to emigrate to the United States and were in the process of applying for US residency. Hillsong had agreed to assist them in dealing with US immigration.
In one email obtained by 7.30, George Aghajanian writes that he “can make things very difficult” for them “with the American authorities”.
In another email, Brian Houston warns that Vera and Zhenya Kasevich “have a lot to fear” and that his general manager has “a lot of useful information for the US embassy” about the former Hillsong Kyiv pastors.
Hopefully, the LNP has learned its lesson.
