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FACTION TOO MUCH FRICTION: Liberal upper house joust to commence soon

Liberal patriots tell their favoured news source for internal intrigue – VEXNEWS – that there is a rising tide of speculation that controversial Baillieu faction honcho in Victoria’s upper house Bruce Atkinson could be facing removal.

Atkinson has previously passionately opined in favour of the interests of the sex industry, has frequented erotic bath-houses as part of a unilateral and solo fact-finding mission and has also penned erotic poetry in his spare time.

One well-informed insider revealed “Bruce’s goose is cooked, there’s going to be a challenge against him and there’ll be widespread support for generational change in his case.”

Liberal preselections in the Victorian Legislative Council are soon to occur.

Any one challenger in Atkinson’s eastern metropolitan province could give rise to an open slather contest, potentially imperilling the Kroger linked Jan Kronberg who has only on her first term in the red morgue and is yet to make her mark.

Interestingly, a nervous looking Bruce Atkinson and her factional bud – and Rock of Gibraltar – Inga Peulich were supping together in the Strangers’ Corridor at state Parliament House. Accompanying them was long-time Baillieu faction head-kicker and Melbourne councillor Peter Clarke. Atkinson will be putting up a big fight to stay on and would be expected to have strong support from his party Leader and faction-master Ted Baillieu, known by foes as ‘Cottees‘ for being both rich and thick.

Discussion

25 comments for “FACTION TOO MUCH FRICTION: Liberal upper house joust to commence soon”

  1. What a load of crap. Rat Dog Riva is going down, not me.

    Posted by Goose | September 2, 2009, 21:26
  2. Name names!

    Posted by Anon | September 2, 2009, 21:28
  3. At least Goose is a loyal Liberal Party member, unlike Tudgey le Fudgey.

    Posted by Anonski | September 2, 2009, 21:29
  4. This is clearly the work of Jan Kronberg looking to get off the 3rd rung.

    Posted by Anonski | September 2, 2009, 21:31
  5. Maybe Tudgey le Fudgey is the mystery candidate?

    Afterall, he will lose Aston very badly.

    Posted by Anon | September 2, 2009, 21:31
  6. I had some yummy food with Goose.

    Posted by AGNI | September 2, 2009, 21:33
  7. Pretty sure Bruce is non alligned.

    Posted by Facts out of whack | September 2, 2009, 21:57
  8. Goose I only go down on teenage girls.

    Posted by RDR | September 2, 2009, 22:44
  9. Mmmmmm Goose. Preferably grain fed and basted in a white wine reduction whilst being roasted to perfection

    not to mention the pate’ both perfect question time snacks

    Posted by Inga | September 2, 2009, 23:00
  10. another chance for margaret fitzherbert?

    Posted by Cancerous Cell | September 3, 2009, 1:12
  11. the thrid spot in eastern metro is under threat from the rising Green vote. Go Damian Magner!

    Posted by sinkingship | September 3, 2009, 9:39
  12. good to see we’re going to get more of jan kronberg. Her views on migrants will go down a treat in the educated east. She’s what renewal for the libs is all about, a bit like old kenny ” have hearing aid” smith. Keep the old timers coming!

    Posted by eastern warrior | September 3, 2009, 9:49
  13. I can’t believe this story has actually made its way online. I was told recently that Alan Tudge was sick of people talking about him and that he was concerned of more articles that he had written finding their way in the public domain in the last weeks of his campaign, and so he devised a strategy to pretend that the Eastern Metro MPs were in the firing line, and in the process shifting attention onto the Eastern Metro contest, making people distracted. So transperent really.

    Posted by Smells like Fudge | September 3, 2009, 10:15
  14. Typical of Tudgey le Fudgey. You can’t trust the French.

    Posted by Anonski | September 3, 2009, 10:21
  15. I like penis, not penny.

    Posted by Scott Farlow | September 3, 2009, 11:54
  16. Bruce, do not txt me under and circumstances.
    RDR

    Posted by Anonymous | September 3, 2009, 13:34
  17. RDR should be dumped long before toupee Atkinson.

    Posted by Anonymous | September 3, 2009, 18:15
  18. Southern Metro is also up for grabs – Andrea Coote’s resignation last year as deputy leader of the Libs in the Upper House means she is political dead meat. Even if the libs win the State Election she will not get a ministry.

    Word is that the David Davis group will mount a challenge. Even a Krogerite might have a go as she has no future.

    Posted by Loner | September 3, 2009, 21:12
  19. I agree that Andrea is a goner – she won’t have a meaningful role in the Parliamentary Party no matter who wins the next election. And by the following election (2014) she will be 62 – not that old perhaps but win or lose that election she has no real future. She should resign and make way for someone with ministerial potential.

    Posted by Fightin for Brighton lib | September 3, 2009, 23:02
  20. David Davis is a good perfomer against the ALP Govt. He should get another gig.

    Andrea Coote showed great disloyalty and stupidity by resigning her shadow ministerial positions last year – where does she hope to go? There’s little doubt she’ll be dumped.

    Posted by Dismal scientist | September 3, 2009, 23:14
  21. Please, please, please what ever you do keep Jan Kronburg were she is. She is doing a wonderful job for us out there

    Posted by The Australian Labor Party | September 4, 2009, 13:10
  22. Seems that Tudgey le Fudgey is circulating this anti-Goose story to deflect attention away from his own dismal attempts to gain preselection in Aston.

    Posted by Tudgey le Fudgey Watcher | September 4, 2009, 19:00
  23. Oh honeys…

    Loopy Jan, Brucie and Dickie… losers all.

    Why do the conservatives get three elected out there?

    Why?

    Posted by Natasha the Despoiler | September 6, 2009, 3:58
  24. Have to agree with Tash.

    The weirdo ranting of Jan Kroneburg is very embarrassing.

    Demanding the local council remove a rubbish bin from outside of her electorate office – because it was a good hiding place for a terrorist bomb was just silly.

    But warning of a worldwide Obama ‘conspiracy’, and accusing supporters of voluntary euthanasia of wanting to eat old people (Soylent Green – Charlton Heston style) is pretty sick.

    East Metro needs a clean out.

    Posted by Anon | September 6, 2009, 17:00
  25. Yeah!

    And when she screeched on the steps of State Parliament about praying and the “Victorian Killing Fields” when abortion was decriminalised – what a fruit loop!!!

    She has competition out here with weird Brucey and Dirty Dick – but WTF???

    Posted by Eastman | September 10, 2009, 0:46

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