Brendan’s not taking any of your shit any more, right?
Federal Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson has called a leadership vote for tomorrow morning.
Late this afternoon he called his Liberal colleagues to an unscheduled meeting.
It is understood Dr Nelson is trying to settle the leadership by calling on a vote.
I suspect he’s actually aiming to demonstrate that he has some leadership capacity by calling a meeting and having people turn up.
The uncertainty surrounding this spill is a nice change. There are lots of things to wonder about:
- One source has apparently suggested Turnbull has the numbers, but what if anyone else throws their hat in the ring?
- Did Julie protect Brendan from Belinda Neal so she could strike the death blow herself?
- Will Wilson bring the iron bar?
- Will Brendan be tallying the votes by whiteboard?
- Will Tip be signing copies of his book?
ELSEWHERE: Press release at Pollytics; Talk at Larvatus Prodeo and The Poll Bludger; Breakfast, lunch and dinner at GrodsCorp.
UPDATE: Malcolm’s getting in the game.
Well, I hope that neither Nelson who was a labor man or Turmbull who is a republican, gets in…
How can we have two men who are in my opinion traitors to their party.
Mr. Nelson was once an staunch ALP member, his family were Labor people and his grandfather was a communists, his father a union delegate and co-founder of a union, and was also active in the Seaman’s union. Mr. Nelson said that his mentor is a labor premier… He was also partner in an after-hours medical service with former Labor Tasmanian treasurer, Dr David Crean, brother of Labor frontbencher and former federal leader Simon Crean.
He joined the Labor party in 1988 stating he’d never voted Liberal in his life, then because he was refused a safe seat by labor he got the pip and defected to the Liberal party in 1994.
Labor obviously didnt think that he was good enough so when he was rejected he defected to the Liberal Party who gave him a safe seat and the top job..
Yep, Mr Nelson sure sounds like a really dedicated liberal man to me eh…The only reason he left Labor was because Labor wouldn’t give the poor man a safe seat, he has never said that he did it because Labors policies and direction were in opposition to what he himself believed, thus he may be subject to a conflict of interest due to his previous very deep association with Labor.