If Dargavel truly supports the rights of the unborn and the family, Vex is right to praise him. We share your scepticism about that, but Landeryou is frequently right about these things and is willing to shine light in the darkest of places.

Frankly we are rather sick of dummy spitters, sulkers and losers who stalk around and are willing to embrace Vex when it agrees with them but completely lose it when they don’t.

The freedom of the press they believe in is that practised in Beijing and Burma.

Hasn’t Vex spent the whole week laying waste to Somyurek’s many enemies in the south-east in a style reminiscent of Johnny Rambo. Does that make Vex Somyurek’s official organ too. Or is it just that Feeney’s hand is constantly on his own official organ?

Maybe rather than being controlled by anyone, Vex calls it how it is, without fear, favour or faction as a consideration.

I am personally delighted Dargavel has bravely indicated his co-operation with the SDA. Whether it means much is the big question, no-one thinks he can deliver jack-shit. Including Feeney who has admitted this widely.

I personally would like real answers from the NUW without the usual bravado about numbers that aren’t there, false dawns, Panzer divisions ready to roll and such.

But real answers to tough questions.

Like, what is the utility of a numbers man with no numbers.

What is the point of going to Canberra at all if you can’t build the Victorian Right not allow it to be taken over by Neanderthals and buffoons.

Buffoons who succeeded in bumping him off as State Secretary, in the most disgraceful circumstances.

And then tried on Newnham days before Christmas in the most ham-fisted joke coup attempt since the days of Colonel Rabuka in Fiji

I think Feeney needs to look himself in the mirror. How can he defend these people? It’s clear his heart isn’t in it.

And why is bumping off Conroy his new obsession?

Does he not realise how stupid this is?

The backlash will be felt for a very long time.

Conroy plans to rip off the top of his skull and slowly snack on Feeney’s large yet under-utilised brain as is popular in some Asian markets.

Will it take the complete disintegration of the HSU under his mates’ appalling stewardship for him to realise that he doesn’t have to pretend to be king of the castle to be loved?

More policy less swagger please.

Who cares about the stability deal, if the Socialist Left falls apart, then we should all be cheering. But it probably won’t, let’s be realistic, despite occasional posturing and Feeney waving around a piece of paper in the manic style of Neville Chamberlin, the numbers are locked in. The die is cast.

And the subject of the NUW’s hatred, Steve Newnham, is still State Secretary isn’t he?

So if the stability deal is “already dead”, wouldn’t he be too?

Stick that in your red MG and smoke it.

Dargavel has not left the Socialist Left faction, nor has he suddenly become a convert to the Labor Right. Just because the SL unions won’t obey Kim Carr doesn’t make them right-wingers.

But given that earlier predictions by VEXNEWS (i.e. Newnham et al) that Dargavel would be forced by his national office to ‘tow the Carr line’ have turned to nothing, this is VEXNEWS’ next play; to try and discredit Dargavel as a left wing figure in the labour movement.

It’s just a transparent attempt by the VEXNEWS faction to try and talk up a stability deal that is already dead.