So the press release is out there, two & a bit pages from the Liberal Party.
Short version, no I don't think there's actually been any moves to replace Libby Mettam as Liberal Party leader.
The fact that one of the journos may have been an ex Labor Staffer should not be taken into any consideration as all media are infallable & not biased ever. For those having trouble detecting sarcasm, that's sarcasm.
106 days out from an election. Much less when you deduct Pre-Polling. That's not a lot of campaigning time but even less when there's the Christmas & New Year period.
First came a story which looks like it came from a leak. Senior Liberals & WANationals meet to agree on a Code of Conduct (CoC). Very big non story except pushed into a story by using words like toxic, division etc & the inferring that no CoC was agreed to signed off on. Who leaked it, I think its easy to guess its one side but the irony is, such a leak would have to against whatever's in the CoC that wasn't signed.
Then now a story on leadership concerns within the Liberals.
That story does seem like a story & not a report.
It include detailed quotes with QUOTATION MARKS but no name attached. You would only commit that intellectually bankrupt punctuation crime if you're trying to attach massive emphasis & validation that may not actually exist.
Also one part said unelected candidates wanted to vote on who the leader is to be. Yes who the leader is between now & the election.
The political leader is chosen by those already elected MPs...AND NO ONE ELSE.
NO ONE ELSE EVER
Although people do it, its at best considered extremely poor form to tell a sitting MP who they should elect as leader or deputy. VERY POOR FORM at best & unacceptable at worst.
No aspiring candidate has ever suggested during a campaign they should be able to decide who the leader of the Party Room is. None.
None ever.
I suspect none has now either.
You'd have to get the whole party room to agree to candidates voting on the leader and that's if it isn't against a party's constitution.
It makes no sense, it didn't happen. No candidate is pushing for that.
Why would it need to happen?
Because the candidates want to vote on leader & its unfair people not recontesting do get to vote?
More rubbish.
The leader of a party, their tenure extends to the next elections or until there's a spill and they lose...which ever comes first. Only a sitting MP can call a spill, only a sitting MP can become leader, only sitting MPs can vote in a leadership spill
So Libby is (Political) Leader of the Liberals Party Room.
The election is March 8th, 2025.
The first Party Room meeting after then, elected MPs will decide who the leader is after all positions are made vacant. That's when the candidates (if they get elected) get to vote on the Leader.
Nope this is BS pro Labor sent story to rattle swing voters & suggest instability
If you cannot smell BS in the Media Story please get in touch, I have a bridge for sale in Sydney & for a little extra I'll throwa unique shell shaped opera house & a HQ Statesman once owned by Elvis himself.
Can you see the circular absurdity, the Party Room has to agree (if they constitutionally can) let all candidates in to vote on the leader? Why so they have the numbers and unseat the leader? Well they'd clearly have if they voted the candidates in to stack the vote wouldn't they
No. it is absurd.
Utterly absurd
NO CANDIDATE EVER SERIOUSLY EXPRESSED THAT THEY SHOULD VOTE ON THE LEADER. DID NOT HAPPEN.
Either someone expressed some frustration OR a fiction writer is pretending to be a reporter.
There is nor was nor ever will be a plan to let candidates into a party to vote on a Party Room leader.
Why would this dog that can't hunt even be able to get on its feet?
This is Try The Get The Zak Kirkup Tactic 2.0 Running Flat Out
This 100% deflects all attention off WA Labor and yes this is where I'd list all the very sketchy Acts of Legislation that Labor grotesquely punched through & avoid full debate, any amendment of Committee review.
Or all the deals that only involved one entity, that were unique & not replicable with costs hidden behind "commercial in confidence"
There's no commercial advantage to protect if its a unique one off deal & cannot be replicated. It only protects the costs from accountibility & kills integrity.
Or the gerrymandering effect hoped for by converting the Legislative Council to One Vote, One Value when there were absolutely no instances of the rural regional areas being unfairly advantaged over WA's Metro citizens where the majority of WA lives. NONE.
Not one, none.
Oddly WA Labor are not pushing for One Vote, One Value for the Australian Senate.
Why? Well if you did that the majority of senators would come from NSW, Victoria & Queensland in that order & we'd have no real representation in the Senate.
Why is that different...Senate can increase or decrease money to WA but no effect on the number of extra Labor politicians that could be elected to the WA Upper House.
And all the drivel talk about Basil Zemplis replacing Libby Mettam as leader, what rubbish.
People spouting that tosh clearly get all their cardio exercise from jumping to false conclusions & running off at the mouth. Although I suspect many of them are sock puppet accounts of Labor layembers & staffers.
Basil is a candidate, he cannot be the Liberal Party's Political Leader.
In fact unless somehow the Party Leader came from the Upper House this time there's only 2 alternatives.
David Honey who is not recontesting & Merome Beard.
Merome Beard won her seat as a National candidate in September 2022 & left the Nats to become a Liberal in October 2023. To only be a Liberal MP for 13 months and become Party leader...no. Pretty unlikely but more likely she doesn't want to replace Libby or she would have caused a spill by now.
So yeah it's a bulldust yarn unless something huge changes since the creation of this fictional matter.
Come polling day, Political Party positions will be made vacant & elected MPs will vote on Leader, Deputy, Whip and whatever else.
Yeah stop being fooled.
Stop inadvertantly fooling others.
Or if you're with the Labor Party...yup, we see you, not fooled
