A new image is desperately needed!!

There used to be a department store named Peter Allan in Edinburgh. No truth in the rumour that the owner was related to the former Whitehorse Mayor of the same name. Don’t know about Jacinta’s father or even of dear old Lyle, as barrister Colin Lovitt once called him.

The three biggest department stores in Edinburgh used to be J & R Allan, Peter Allan and Patrick Thomson. All have now closed, regrettably.

As for Phil, nice to see he’s still got the fire. I think I voted for Mike last time but only as as a vote against Howard.

Will be a very different story next time round, as Rudd has been a disappointment. Mike is ok as a member but is just another Laborite towing the party line and doesn’t do much.

The National Executive will imminently appoint the western suburbs spots that have been referred to them, the incumbents will be backed with the Seitz vacancy filled by Sykes, a great result for her.

A fight for young and old in Ivanhoe between Langdon and Carbines, as previously reported.

A fight between young Enver Erdogan and old drama queen Erik Locke in Brunswick.

That’s the current state of play.

Lots of talk that there’ll be a preselection deal between the Left, Labor Unity’s Shortcons and the Feeney led Ambition Faction as early as today.

When there’s something new to report on those matters, we’ll let you know.

Who am I?

I came 3rd in a preselection against Marie Luckins.

I set up a failed business called International Careers Pty Ltd in a tax haven.

The peak of my political career was as an adviser for the Bronwyn for PM campaign.

My only experience as a campaign manager before becoming State Director was campaign director and strategist for the losing Monash Province campaign in 2002.

My closest political associate is Santo Santoro.

I lost a state election.

I deliberately sabotaged the Prahran campaign, removing central funding for factional reasons.

I was part of the losing team for the last Federal election.

I gave the IT contract for 104 to a company Dan Feldman’s was a director of, without going to tender. Dan Feldman subsequently had to leave his law firm.

I leased part of 104 Exhibition Street – a direct legacy of Robert Menzies – to Tolarno Galleries, who displayed Bill Henson’s child porn in the Liberal Party’s own building.

I corruptly breached the Electoral Act, using the threat of pulling the party polling contract to get two people fired.

I asked staff to blog against the State Leader, then when it came out, I knifed them as publically as I could to try and rat out of it.

When the blog affair came out, I denied even knowing about the blog – lying to Ted Baillieu, Tony Nutt, David Kemp, the media and the party. In actuality, I had been bragging about the blog I had tacitly authorised for months – including in December to Don Nardella MP, who has since put the facts on the record in parliament. http://www.theage.com.au/national/liberal-chief-under-pressure-over-blog-20080528-2j3u.html

I undertook a secret deal with DPA Document Printing Australia Pty Ltd to re-employ Chandler for the Liberal Party, in a cruel hoax on the Party and the Jewish community.

I left 104 Exhibition Street in a burning wreck, having lost both the State and Federal Campaign managers in a fortnight of the worst media coverage in the Party’s history.

I tarnished the reputation of the Higgins 200 Club by associating it with donations from the aged care industry extracted by Santo Santoro.

I have been unemployed for over a year.

I tell people I am a “accountant/ corporate accountant” despite no longer holding proper professional registrations to do such work.

I am not very popular amongst the branch members in Higgins.

Congrats to Phil on winning, but sadly, Mad Ken was by far the best candidate in terms of speeches. This came to me as a bit of a surprise.

haveing said that though, Phil is a known figure in the electorate, and if , and I say IF there is a swing against the Government, Phil is very likely to win his seat back.