That type of transportable loyalty and shallow enthusiasm is precisely what annoys people so damned much about politicians. It applies here to Nockles, and it applies here to Price. I wouldn’t give you two bob for either of them, primarily for the reason that their professed commitment to an electorate is as shallow as their raw political abilities.

Except, it hasn’t altogether worked out for the Krogerites. They trembled in their boots when Kennett announced he would consider agreeing to stand as leader again. So,too, did Bracks.

First off, there is a nasty war going on inside the Victorian ALP, which Bracks is trying to keep a lid on until the election is over. Whiffs of the stench of the the internal war has oozed out now and again, over some months now. One ALP diehard member was in tears this week, publicly stating that there is a war on and it is vicious. It’s due to the Left attempting to take total control of the Victorian ALP.

Boggling,really, Bracks and his chums of the Junta aree nasty commies as it is. After the formal election is out the way, and assume the left control, as bad as the Junta is, it will be even nastier. A Bracks Junta victory is appalling as it is, because of the ramifications for Victoria of another four years of the monstrous actions of that pack of totalitarian good for nothing,lying, bums. So what a `left’ dominated ALP Cabinet will do is an appallingly worse prospect.

It is very interesting to note, if Kennett had accepted the offer to take the Liberals to the 2006 polls, long-time ALP voters would have switched to Kennett. They reason is: they not only detest the left, the detest the Bracks Junta. One quote is telling, from and ALP supporter, the Junta is spending and taxing Victorians into another depression. Ladies and gentleman that is the sober judgement of a die-hard ALP voter.

The Left of the ALP wish to dominate the Cabinet and with it, feed at the poor sodding taxpayer kept pigs’ trough, so they regard it, which comes with the Treasury benches.

This makes the treachery of the Krogerite axis all the more disgusting. This, unlike internal ALP factional politics, is due only a very narrow and few in numbers section of the Victorian Liberal party, composed of:

The Krogers
Their henchmen
Their shoe shine boys and girls they have jobbed into Parliamentary seats and into Victorian Party offices, including Sheezel, and that thug, Tony Barry
The narrow set of Toorak Political Brahmins, who have worked well with Bracks, to advance their interests, typfied by that promoter of Bracks and plunder by `govt.’, Ron Walker, and who have thus backed ductile, craven, venal,thuggish, unprincipled krogerites.

It is only a narrow section, though they wrested control of the Party and have wrecked the Party over the course of 7 years. A narrow, conceited section who don’t hold Liberal Principles, they wouldn’t even recognize a principle if it smacked them in the face – Ron Walker is living proof of that. So, too is Barry. So, too, Sheezel. They are a credit to the Krogers, and the Krogers are a credit to the narrow Toorak set of political Brahmins. Thus, we have, as covered on Brookesnews the many reasons why Victorian Liberal party members are furious.

The contempt the Krogerite axis have for Party members , of so many Branches, is sufficient reason alone for members to be cross with that self-satisified bunch of incompetents, without the above offences and even worse, as epitomised by the outright disgusting, malicious attack on Prodos Marinakis by Kroger’s thugs.

It is not the Victorian Liberal Party, it is a narrow section who are the problem. The internal problem is not about the Liberal Party and what journalists mistakenly call, `factionalism’.

The members are furious on such counts and at the betrayal of the reason for the Party:

To stand for Liberal Principles, and to put up members of Parliament who will serve the Parliament and thus Victoria but by standing on those sound principles. This makes the conduct of the Krogerites all the more disgusting as in, for they have ensured at least one more term of the rotten Bracks Junta, and maybe another term on top. As one wrote:

These political Brahmins don?t give a stuff about party members or even the welfare of the state. They don?t give a stuff about the hardships the Bracks Junta is imposing on Victorians. They don?t give a damn that the Bracks Junta is wrecking the state.

The members of the Party do give a damn, and so do those m.p.s who are not sho shine boys and girls to the Krogerites, of whom it can said they are muscular Liberals. Those muscular Liberal M.P.s too have had to endure being treated with contempt. It can be illuminated by mentioning, the Krogerties hate Kennett, but are frustrated by him becuase he cannot be controlled by them. Helen Kroger vented her frustration at Kennett on radio earlier this year:

Helen Kroger: He should go away. He’s had his time. It’s our turn now.

Helen, amusingly, summed up not Kennett, but Michael, the lackeys, and herself: they treat the Liberal Party as their vassal estate and members as serfs. In other words, she regards Kennett as a Feudal Lord who is dead. Well, Kennett did not regard the Party, the Members and, Victorians that way at all, but the Krogerites do. That quote is another glimpse of how shallow, bye the bye , the Krogerites are.

The Federal Liberal Party politicians are very concerned at what the Krogerite axis has done to the Vicotrian Liberal Party. The most telling illustration is the Prime Minister’s enthusiastic endorsement of Kennett’s reappointment, if Kennett had agreed. That would have shocked the Krogerites. The Prime Minister is not the only Federal M.P. stirring against the wreckers.

The penny must be dropping in the thick skulls of the wreckers that they are out on a limb. Sheezel will be sacked as Director, for being the cowardly incompetent tool of the Krogers he is. Barry will be booted out for being not only their tool but also a nasty thug. The limb will be lopped and, amusingly, it will be the Brahmins who will lop it.

The Brahmins will distance themselves from the Krogers and let them fall. Funny isn’t it, the very people who backed the Krogers have only done so out of their own interests. Not that that saves the political skins of those Brahmins. The members are sharpening the proverbial axes and, it is a very safe bet, the clean up will be thorough.

Another Federal M.P. who publicly stated his concern is Costello. I found a transcript of Neil Mitchell’s interview of Costello on 3AW.

The first point, during this week, beginning with a column in The AGE on the Prodos scandal, the medja don’t have a clue as to what the real state of affairs. Nothing unusual in that, jpurnalists pretend to be privy to the inside of affairs and they are not. They never scratch the surface on matters. So, too, Neil Mitchell, who boasted before the interview, he has a very good clue as to what is going on. As the transcript shows, no he does not at all.

Interview with Neil Mitchell, 3AW
I draw attention to the following exhange:

MITCHELL:

You know that the analysis is that the Costello/ Kroger faction does involve itself in State politics. Did the Costello/ Kroger faction have anything to do with Robert Doyle’s decision to go?

TREASURER:

Well, this talk about factions Neil, I speak for myself and people that I know that are involved in Federal politics, Federal Members and Senators, absolutely no involvement whatsoever.

MITCHELL:

Have you discussed it with Michael Kroger?

TREASURER:

No, I do not believe that Mr Kroger would be of any influence in this either, because he is not a Member of Parliament and the people who are engaged in this are the Members of Parliament. They make these decisions at the end of the day Neil. In a Parliamentary Party only the Members of Parliament vote, only the Members of Parliament can take a Leader out and only the Members of Parliament can elect a Leader and it is their decision today.

MITCHELL:

Well many of those Members of Parliament and Liberal Party who will be astounded to hear that there is no role to be played by the Costello/ Kroger forces.

TREASURER:

No role at all nor should there be. And nor would I do it.

Costello has dissembled, it is not about factionalism, it is about a narrow section who have wrested control of the Party.

Mitchell has not a clue, as tellingly he has missed the whole point: it is of course not aboutKroger working within the Parlaimentary wing. It is the fact that through the Party, the Korgerites have jobbed into seats their lackeys. Next, while Kroger holds no Party executive office, he controls it through his flunkeys and henchman who do hold Party offices, such as Sheezel and Barry. More-over, the Krogerites method is the same most would assume was confined to the ALP, I once assumed so: they promote Party hacks through to finally jobbing them onto seats.

It is at the Party level and, in particular appointments to offices, and control of agencies and associations of the Party, even the the most innocuous of them such as the Speakers Forum,the Krogerites control the Party. Intervention in the Parlaimentary wing is a straw man.

The right question Mitchell did not ask is: Does the Krogerite axis control and interfere in the Party?

The answer is not only yes, the yes is in vivid shocking technicolour proofs such as:

Helen Korger walking in, literally, on a Branch meeting to tell the members they had to sack their candidate and appoint her nominee.

She didn’t like the candidate becuase the candidate’s crime is to hold Liberal Principles. The Members told her, in colourful langauge what she could do.

So, there was a Kroger who was attempting to dicate the composition of the Parliamentary wing by dictating to a Branch who the candidate should be. That is only one case.

The public case if the shocking character assassination of Mariarkas. Well, one can see the advantage of sliming Mariarkus, that way the Krogerites don’t risk being told to do something. Except for one thing, the Krogerites have hung themselves by it. By their persecution of Mariarkas they have revealed what they are like and what they are doing, to the general public., Vic.

To the public only because, Vic. Liberal Party members had the Krogers and what they were about summed up a long time ago.

There is another telling illustration, though it concerns a Federal seat, it is still a Vic. Party member. The seat of Kooyong and its incumbent, MP Petro Georgiou.

If Georgiou was such a good M.P. and candidate for the next Federal election, and the members so satisfied with him, why did Kroger and Costello interfere in the selection by ganging up against Josh Frydenberg?

Now, whether Frydenberg holds sound Liberal convictions or is another political brahmin, I can’t venture. One thing is clear, Georgiou is not a Liberal in principles, he’s conviction free zone too but with wringing wet lefty inclinations.

Georgiou seems to have presumed, as the incumbent, the seat is his until he retires, as a feudal right, and that no-one should have dared contest for the candidacy. More-so since:

Mr Costello said Mr Georgio’s rivals should seriously consider running for preselection in the adjoining Labor-held seat of Chisholm.

Mr Frydenberg said he would not consider the treasurer’s suggestion. “This is where I am from, this is where I feel most comfortable and this is where I think there is real work to be done,” Mr Frydenberg said.

“I am not thinking about Chisholm. That is not on my agenda.”

Is Frydenberg a convictionless sissy, a coward, too, for why would anybody declare unflinching support for seat warming Georgiou if they had spine, guts, and sound convictions? The job his to swipe the seat from under his fat backside:

Mr Frydenberg congratulated Mr Georgiou on his win and said he would not be trying to undermine him over the next three years.

“I will look forward to coming back to this place the next time there is a preselection, but I certainly won’t be working to undermine him, he has my full support,” he said.

Bah! Drivel and snivel.

This is closer to the truth:

Frydenberg supporter George Swinburne said he was surprised by the vote and blamed factions within the Liberal Party for Mr Frydenberg’s loss.

“He was the best candidate, but there were certain numbers that have played and Josh was not successful,” Mr Swinburne said.

Incorrect in one detail: It is not, Mr. Swindburne, factions who played dirty pool, it is the Krogerite axis who played foul. And, Costello is part of that axis.

Imagine, such a splendid candidate that the Krogerite Brahmins had to work to ensure Georgious was not, as should happen, be dumped in favour of, preferably, someone who is a Liberal. They ganged up on Frydenberg.

Frydenberg needed to show guts that day, and punch the gangsters on the nose, spell out point blank what that lot are, what he himself stands for, so as to give the members solid reasons to themembers to knock Georgiou off and out. Instead, real taxpayers have to carry a useless, snivelling, ductile cretin as an M.P. for another term. Indeed, it is the only thing the Krogerites understand, pain, they dish it out and, they need to be given it back in well deserved dollops.

Leaving Georgiou in would be like appointing Kroger to the seat of Kooyong, a rotten deal against Liberal Party and Oz.

So, Neil Mitchell’s straw man question let Costello right off the hook, which is not the same as assuming, his Federal Colleagues are fooled, and as assuming they are not fully apprised, by now, of what the state of affairs is in the Vic. Liberal Party, and as assuming that, therefore, they are not worried by what is the case. Though, if any Federal M.P. is not concerned, apart from Costello and Kroger’s bosom buddy, than that M.P. is a fool. They should lean on Costello to shape up, spit out his kenyesian-corporatist dummy and, at the same time, take Kroger out behind the bike shed and thrash him for what the Krogers and their thugs have done to the Vic. Liberal Party.

In the mean-time, there is more in the Prodos affair to come out. I’ll keep readers posted. For the time being, Barry, Sheezel and Kroger are in deep trouble over this. So, too is Crikey dot.com, who has followed those slimes to smear Prodos Marinakus. Crikey has pulled it’s defamatory articles off its site, but it is too late. Liberal members,disgusted by the persectution of Prodos by the likes of Barry and Crikey are fully apprised what those gutless, socialist,snivelling sookies at Crikey published. So, here we have it, those craven, venal, thugs and yet, cowards, crawl to Crikey which, as craven and as stupid as Krogers thugs, beleived it too could enjoin in a bit of defamation and no one would object. That is the company Sheezel and Barry keep and crawl to and suck up to.

Just to check, enter into search Prodos Marinarkis and the result turns up zero. Yup, having done their best to abet the Krogerite thugs slander Prodos, those gutless socialist liars at Crikey are now running for cover, the gutless drop kicks and their sookie fan club of whining readers.

There is one site up, which has some of the material, but not the full malicious run of what crikey posted. The slobs running that site are gutless gutless crawlers too.
It was the Krogerite thugs who have fuelled the trash put out by those bums, because, they are the bastards who began the persecution of Prodos.

Interestingly, Kroger has come out this afternoon and protested he doesn’t have any control over the Party and he’s been out of it for some time. He sulked about not being given Kooyong as a feudal right too.

Kroger is so myopic he believes Party members and the public will swallow saccharine coated B.S

Let’s hope this is the last hurrah, in the preselection context, for both Price and Nockles. We have had enough of them and they will, quite simply, never cut it. They just don’t have it, either of them. Might be good apparatchicks, but they are not good candidates.

Do they not realise how embarrassing and shallow that makes them look?!?!? Tossers!

It seems this self-made man has a lot more business acumen than “investment banker” Kelly.

How will he be able to have a straight face when ordering his factional lackies to vote for Kelly when the alternative candidate is such a standout by comparison?

The reforms are a farce if Kelly wins Higgins.

It is at the State level we need a lot of new talent – don’t care about sex, age, etc – we just want people with some brains and energy – not the present bunch of dimwits.

And my tiger said Grrrrrr.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr said the tiger.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Lou Lou, Rainsford, Koch & Makin.

I bet one of those four will be the next member for Wannon. I’m betting Rainsford or Makin.