Like everything that “Psycho” Morrison does, he dramatically overestimates his ability to shape the reality of others. His psychopathy and penchant for gaslighting, including his own party, blinds him to the real world and the people within it. To wit:
His attempt to stack the LNP with cultists has now backfired so spectacularly that it is in danger of driving the sect out of politics, the precise opposite. To wit:
The federal Liberal division has staged a limited intervention in the affairs of its troubled New South Wales division to install candidates in just three seats held by sitting members.
The prime minister, Scott Morrison, the NSW premier, Dominic Perrottet, and the former federal Liberal president, Chris McDiven, have been appointed to a committee that has a limited remit to take over the party for 72 hours and deal with the preselections for the three sitting members.
They are the environment minister, Sussan Ley, in Farrer, the immigration minister, Alex Hawke, in Mitchell and the MP for North Sydney, Trent Zimmerman, a key figure in the moderate faction.
…The remaining seats where preselections are yet to be held are being left for the NSW division to determine with the May federal election looming.
…The compromise forestalls any legal challenges which could have been launched by disaffected rank and file members, who were furious that the party had tried to avoid new rules aimed at introducing more democracy into the party through branch member plebiscites.
Make no mistake, this is a rearguard action by PM Morrison to save his Pentecostal mate, Alex Hawke. The two set out together to blockade democratic party process in order to parachute more cultists into crucial seats and instead got more than they bargained for when rank and file Liberal members revolted in horror:
“The reason for this intervention is, I am advised primarily, that for months and months the Prime Minister’s representative on state executive Alex Hawke has failed/refused to carry out his responsibilities as a member of the nomination review committee in a timely manner,” Senator Fierravanti-Wells wrote.
“I am also advised that some candidates have been waiting for almost 10 months for their nomination review committee meeting to be held.”
“Given that the members in Farrer, Mitchell and North Sydney will be denied the opportunity to have their say, I would encourage you all to write to the members of the committee and raise any matter that you believe may be pertinent to the endorsement of candidates within these three electorates,” Senator Fierravanti-Wells wrote.
There is still every chance that there will be a legal challenge to prevent even the three-seat deal, which would be tremendous. Alex Hawke confronting gaslighted, abused and enraged members would be worth the price of admission.
“Psycho” Morrison can’t even help trashing basic processes in his own party.
Why should he run the country?
