Some folks should never hold public office, via the AFR:
Victorian Liberal Party president Michael Kroger has slammed the Business Council of Australia as irrelevant, arrogant and hopeless and says it should be abolished.
“The BCA doesn’t want to campaign, it should not have to campaign because the integrity of its policy decisions should speak for themselves,” she said.
“What a hopeless contribution. No wonder the BCA are in a world of pain because they’re an irrelevant organisation and they may as well wind up, frankly,” he said.
“This is an appalling contribution. If you want to know why these people have such a hopeless record of failure…the greatest evidence of that is this comment.”
Mr Kroger said the Coalition had taken to the last election “some of the most business-friendly policies I have seen in my lifetime” but “the BCA was missing in action for that whole campaign”.
The BCA was central to the Abbott Government policy machine and look where that got it? Moreover, why would the public listen to a big business lobby if its raison d’etre is only to support the Coalition?
The group’s influence on the public is always likely to be limited given it’s very obviously a lobby group for the big end of town but the best way to make some small impression is to pretend that it’s about the public good, not engage in partisan hysteria.
Kroger’s demand for greater rent-seeking is indicative of a party lacking a national interest policy compass.
