“Psycho” Morrison is not afraid, so says The Australian:
Scott Morrison will run an offensive campaign and resist being locked in a bubble to avoid ugly confrontations with voters, as the government shifts its strategy towards winning more key seats off Labor to help offset expected losses.
Senior Liberal strategists fighting for a fourth successive election win said they could not afford to be “fearful” of pub visits and street walks after 73-year old disability pensioner Raymond Drury confronted the Prime Minister on the hustings at a Newcastle tavern on Wednesday night. Mr Morrison’s exchange with Mr Drury and schoolteacher Chantelle Howlett, who filmed herself with Mr Morrison calling him the “worst prime minister ever”, were chalked up by the Liberal campaign as part and parcel of political life.
I hope so. It will be a fine spectacle to watch “Psycho” get mauled in person. None better than since the disastrous GST rallies of John Hewson.
But somehow I doubt it. The problem is not just the anger of the people, it is “Psycho” himself. He is incapable of simple meet and greets with real human beings because he is not one. Any venture into a public forum risks more exposure to this fact:
So, I suspect this is all bravado and lies. The LNP is surely not this stupid.
Or is it?
On the eve of an election, with his own regional MPs already declaring him a bullying loon for the first round of failed disaster support, yesterday “Psycho” once again denied flood relief to QLD:
A day after defiantly rejecting demands from the Queensland and NSW governments for more funding on top of the $2.1 billion in Commonwealth money already committed, the Prime Minister capitulated to Queensland and also indicated he was close to a deal with NSW.
“We’re just working through those issues right now. It shouldn’t be too long,” he said.
Riiiight.
On the eve of an election, his own base is suing him over the legitimacy of a dozen MPs in NSW:
The court action was brought by Matthew Camenzuli, who was expelled from the NSW Liberal Party on Wednesday.
He and his backers, including chief Morrison critic Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, are trying to overturn the bypassing of ballots that enabled Mr Morrison and senior officials to re-endorse the preselections of federal MPs Sussan Ley, Trent Zimmerman and Alex Hawke, and to parachute candidates into nine other target seats in NSW.
All 12 preselections could be in trouble if the High Court overturns the Supreme Court’s rejection of Mr Camenzuli’s case earlier this week, throwing the government’s re-election prospects into chaos.
The High Court will hear the special leave application at 4pm AEST on Friday and could decide on the spot whether to hear the case or reject it.
This is what they think of “Psycho”:
On the eve of an election, “Psycho” just pulled the enormous subs building contract from SA:
Scott Morrison is moving to head off an electoral backlash in South Australia after the prime minister appeared to water down the government’s commitment to building Aukus nuclear-powered submarines in Adelaide.
…The pre-election Aukus controversy stems from Morrison’s response on Wednesday when asked to guarantee that each of the new submarines – other than the nuclear reactor – would be built in Australia.
Morrison gave a qualified answer. “Well, we’re working through all of those issues and that is certainly our intention to maximise all of that,” he told reporters in western Sydney.
The prime minister went on to emphasise the need for speedy delivery. “But it’s also the paramount goal is to ensure we get that capability as soon as we can, and it’s in the best form that it can be working with our partners.”
That’s three states butchered in a day. Can he get onto the streets for meet and greets in all three?
It’ll be a bloody spectacle indeed if he does.
