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PARTY HARD: Photios photo furore freaks out factional foes
Peace and love within the NSW Liberal Right was optimistically declared between young upstart federal MP Alex Hawke and his one-time mentor David Clarke this past weekend.
And one of them has launched an attack on Liberal Lefty Michael Photios suggesting at least one patriot is keen to resume more traditional hostilities.
Appalled by the outlandish behaviour of the former Liberal MP told VEXNEWS:
Photios should practice what he preaches, and keep his mouth shut and not comment to tabloid journalists about his private life…
They claim the Liberal party is in “damage control” after images of the flamboyant party-fiend Mr Photios caused concern across the party. They pointed to the contrasting standards applied to the flamboyant Photios and other party members who’ve been threatened with expulsion if they talk to the press.
Photios, hypocritically, supports the tough approach.But he doesn’t want to live up to the same standards to avoid the party being dragged into disrepute, a NSW Liberal Right source claimed.
They say it is well known that Mr Photios and numerous other people supported measures designed to silence the ordinary membership of the party, and place absolute power in the hands of a select few.
“And the proof is in the pudding, while ordinary members can’t speak out, senior Liberals like this bloke are allowed to flaunt the rules and show absolute contempt for the rules he implemented. It seems Photios and a number of people see themselves as bigger than the party, and also see themselves as above the rules.
He continued:
“It looks very bad for the Liberal party when you have a Vice President of the party portraying a party boy image, he’s 49 for crying out loud!”
“He makes both Corey Delaney and Paris Hilton look pale in comparison with his party boy image.”
“I wonder if Max Markson is interested in signing this bloke up to a multi-million dollar contract to attend the Sydney A-list circuit, or does Barry (O’Farrell) want him back serving the people of NSW as clown prince?”
The forty-nine year father of three was recently featured in the Daily Telegraph in photos with a young lady, 23 while posing in a sexually suggestive way for the paparazzi at a recent corporate event.
“While ordinary members of the rank-and-file are silenced and threatened for speaking to the media, people like Photios turn themselves into a tasty media tart,” the concerned rival asserted.
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Sometime I struggle to spell my own surname.
I struggle to find any friends.
Not more of this shit! Can we please just keep ourselves off Vexnews? What are you people trying to achieve. Do you want Barry O’Farrell on his knees begging?
Money is a great aphrodisiac!
You’re a joke Photios
as a right winger from a different state, Photios, whom I’ve met, strikes me as a charming, intelligent and dynamic bloke. He is pro-business and his private life is irrelevant since he is not a parliamentarian.
He is the sort of person the Party needs on its side. For the outside, NSW factional brawls look so childish, serving no purpose to the goal of not just winning government but keeping it too.
Grow up, NSW LIBS!!!!!!
the NSW rightistas are astounding in many ways. not least in their inability to understand how unpleasant they look to the average voter
Hey, forget Photios, it’s Red Ted we sweat over.Oh please oh please Big Ted go now and go with what little grace you have left.You have been a right royal disaster. When people are just laughing at you…….
Would any of those young ladies in the photos like a lift home? Txt me.
RDR is so fond of texting – is he Shane Warne?
Oh my god. Not again…
Every time one of you neanderthals decides to leak God kills a kitten.
It makes the NSW Liberals look like a pack of fools.
Also, how the fuck does this have anything to do with Photios violating Liberal party views regarding speaking to the press? He’s not a parliamentarian, nor is he vying for preselection.
I can only hope we find out who you lot are and slap the banhammer on you so hard you’ll have to join the CDP in order to get even within a whiff of a Parliamentary gig.
if Red Ted had half the charm and ability of Photios, Vic Libs would be much better placed
TheGroupLeak. Remember 4 Corners?
I remember Photios had a party the night they aired it.
Astounded of Melbourne. Average voters don’t read this stuff, they don’t care.
Finally, they made about movie about me!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WLQ5KgOyZc
sorry, that should read “they made a movie about me”.
Thought you would have learned your lesson texting teenage girls and propositioning them RDR.
Alex and Nick Campbell were in the paper today for all the wrong reasons:
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/nasty-saga-you-nearly-missed-20091025-hem5.html
Everyone knows Alex. Everyone knows.
I’m not sure why a 49 year old busies himself with corny mask parties, doesn’t he have multiple families to take care of at home?
Four Corners. LOL.
Whatever happened to Betty Mihic? did she get her branch back from the nasty branch stackers?
Boo hoo
who cares what his name was. First and foremost, this bloke was backed by lunatics such as David Clarke, Marie Ficarra and Noel McCoy.
No need to say anything else.
I’m not sure why people are attacking Michael.
He’s always been great help around preselections and elections.
Hang your heads in shame you anonymous smart arses.
For heavens sakes, stop posting under the name talihunter (19:32). I’m the real talihunter. That is me. So pis* off and get your own name.
I think Michael Photios should have his membership cancelled for bringing the party into disrepute. He is an embarressment to himself, his family and the party.
This is the view of the real talihunter.
Get f*cked talihunter (19:43).
I am the real talihunter. End of story.
Michael Photios and I are great mates.
Listen you all. I’m the real talihunter. So you get f*cked.
Why won’t Alex take a stand and speak out against the ETS?
For all his small government rhetoric it’s time for Alex to put his money where his mouth is and take a stand against this massive new tax.
talihunter is my username. I took it first so go and find your own one.
Whin Krustina tuns forty Muck Photios wull be sivinty five. Nuw thires a thought.
Krussy wull be wipung his arse, putting on hus jandals und cleanung hus false teeth.
What’s wrong with Tim Wilson?
Better a 23 year old girl than Ben Franklin.
Photios knows how to party hard.
Why is Nick Campbell still State President? He has surrounded himself with extremist bigots. Look at the shocking comments of his supporters about Catholics on this site. He needs to declare where he stands on this bigotry and condemn it. I am sure Johnson and Johnson would be disgusted with the trash that a senior executive of theirs surrounds himself with.
I wonder what his kids think of their step-mistress.
Yeah I agree. Nick has become a very controversial figure. I don’t know how much heat Johnson and Johnson will take on him. He’s gone seriously weird.
As if the far right of the Liberal Party has a clue what is right for society. They are a bad as the far left of the ALP. Out of touch. Why don’t you both fuck off and leave it up to us centrists.
As for Photios, leave the poor fool alone. He’s going through a phase. He’s 49 for God’s sake
Rather than waste time on intra factional humbug have a look at Lord Monckton’s work on bursting the climate change scare myth and think about how to tell the voters. Gee we might even actually win an election on merit.
Max Rawnsley
Conservatives must purge the education system and to a lesser extent the media of the left wing bias and indoctrination that has infected it.
Right now we are dealing with an electorate who’s minds have been warped by a permissive decadent media and an education system intent on desecrating our proud history and destroying any ideals we might have once held.
Despite millions being spent by putting boat people onto Christmas Island, some 90% are still granted residency to Australia.
Why dont we save the tax $$$ and just let em all in as we are doing that anyway.
Either get tough or give up.
I do factional deals with Photios. End of story.
I do factional deals with Photios. End of story.
Corey would like to partay with this Michael Photios down at 104 sometime.
I beat up Catholics for political reasons.
I beat up Catholics for political advsntage. And I party with Michael Photios. That’s me in the dress wearing a mask.
Who cares about Michael Photios and his philandering ways!
There is much more pressing issue at hand: I have been slandered in the SMH!
http://www.smh.com.au/national/whats-in-a-name-coles-biscuit-slammed-as-racist-20091026-hgkb.html
How dare they name a biscuit after my proud heritage…evil bastards.
Do you know how sh*t this makes me feel.
Why won’t Alex take a stand and speak out against the ETS?
For all his small government rhetoric it’s time for Alex to put his money where his mouth is and take a stand against this massive new tax.
Posted by Samuel Lee | October 26, 2009, 19:56
OK mate, if you don’t stop impersonating me I’ll beat the snot out of you… swear at you… a strong talking to… oh hell I’ll just give you the evil eye from across the room
Come on guys is there no line you guys won’t cross while debating and discussing?
My stance on Global Warming is (even though this has nothing to do with the article), if Global Warming is proven then we should adopt an ETS that is cheap and effective, none of which describes Rudd’s ETS.
I doubt the science of Climate Change, 30,000 Scientists and Reviewers are suing Al Gore for fraud over his claims. Some of the most respected scientists have claimed that believers have not applied proper scientific processes, the Hockey Stick: Used to graph the increase in temperatures have been proven to be false by the whole scientific community, yet skeptics are villified and forced to keep quiet about their findings.
Estimates put ETS costs at $800 billion world wide. Which is fine considering the consequences, but I want to be damn sure if before we put this massive tax on us all.
Yeah baby the Young Liberal ball is on Saturday and I hear that Tim Andrew’s angels will be making an appearance.
I will be there on the dance floor shaking it, if Bosco lets me.
I’m off to NSW the skirt looks hot and I’m more toey than a roman sandle.
If Photios gets back into Parliament and resumes his ‘love rat’ activities, who will be the first pollie he bangs?
I am betting that Gladys is last on the list, below even Don Harwin
Hurrah!
I have had my fist ever victory in politics.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/coles-backs-down-over-racist–biscuit-20091027-hhhk.html
I have made the Coles Corporation back down on their Machiavellian, and nefarious plans to forever brand me as a biscuit.
You see, people do listen to me. How dare they namee a biscuit after me.
I am all powerful. I am omnipotent.
I am Noel “Creole Biscuit” McCoy.
In case you missed Alan Jones this morning you might like to read some more of his wise words.
Just on the Liberal Party this 32-year-old member for Mitchell Alex Hawke has got himself into the news again. The argument being there has been a fallout between him and David Clarke. David Clarke is the Liberal Upper House MLC in the New South Wales parliament. I don’t know either of them but if you had to make a choice as to who you would like to meet I would take David Clarke any day.
David Clarke has said I don’t believe the Internet should be used as a licence for people to make anonymous allegations against others without them having to accept legal responsibility for what they say. I wonder how that applies to Alex Hawke?
This is a fellow who has developed bikie gang tactics in Liberal Party politics in NSW. He pretends he is the injured party and that he has nothing to do with it but I have a file here you could jump over of young people making statutory declarations testifying to the disgraceful behaviour of this fellow Hawke who will vilify and defame anyone he doesn’t like in the party and organise in the most undemocratic way numbers for people whose fawning support he enjoys.
There is apparently some bloke called Farlow, Scott Farlow who is one of the team and this bloke Alex Hawke is in the Federal parliament and the Liberal Party are seeking government in New South Wales.
Barry O’Farrell needs to get active here and Malcolm Turnbull as well. I repeat, the behaviour of this fellow Alex Hawke is now at last being exposed. He is a cancer on the Liberal Party in New South Wales and here he is in a weekend story in the Sun Herald where Mr Hawke claims he has calmed down and that becoming and MP has made him more moderate. Who does the bloke think he is kidding? I repeat, from the material in front of me, sent to me by people in the Liberal Party to frightened to speak out, because under Liberal Party rules if you speak out against anything in the Party they will expel you. How democratic is that ?
And, the President of the Party, this fellow Nick Campbell is supposedly a support of Alex Hawke. This is not an ethnic purge but a factional purge of the Liberal Party that threatens to derail Barry O’Farell. I have said many times and I will say it again – there is only one way for this to be stopped and that is the preselection of this fellow Hawke for the seat of Mitchell to be withdrawn sooner rather than later.
There is a postscript to that by the way and the Liberal Party in New South Wales. Paul Sheehan, the distinguished journalist wrote a piece yesterday that appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald about one Michael Towke and his preselection by the Liberal Party in July 2007 for the Liberal seat of Cook to replace the then outgoing member Bruce Baird. So, this fellow Towke was preselected. Paul Sheehan writes that from that point on the Lebanese Australian was attacked in the media with leaks from, as Paul Sheehan says, two senior people from within the Liberal Party whose identity is known to a widening circle within the party. And, as Paul Sheehan writes, News Ltd newspapers went after him, this bloke Towke.
In Paul Sheehan’s words “leaks and spears”. The result: a second ballot was ordered and Scott Morrison won the seat. Towke, for all that had been written about him in Paul Sheehan’s words was portrayed as a serial liar and an exaggerator took News Ltd to court for the stories written about him where he disputed every imputation as factual evidence. According to Paul Sheehan shortly before the matter ended in court this month Nation Wide News paid and settled. Paul Sheehan writes that it is telling that experienced Telegraph journalists appear to have based their stories on sources they trusted, suggesting those doing the leaking, this is from within the Liberal Party, were both senior figures and seasoned in dealing with the media. He ends his piece yesterday by saying that two years later Towke’s honour has been restored, his name has been cleared, his standing in the party rehabilitated and his ties to the electorate broadened. Justice will be served only when the two assassins within the party are politically terminated. That process has begun. That’s Paul Sheehan. No names.
The Party Paul Sheehan is writing about is the Liberal Party. The assassins are alive. But, they had better know that the wagons are circling. The Towke story confirms what I am saying. There are people in the Liberal Party whose behaviour owes more to bikie gang politics than it does to liberal democracy.
hahaha, hilarious. The parrot squawks some more. Has Noel been feeding the bird seed again?
Hey Alan you gay wimp.
When are you going to invite Alex in for an interview?
It’s only fair that Alex gets a right of reply to these baseless allegations.
We’ll see who gets the last laugh…
So Photios is a pants-man? So what?
Are we boring that we want all our pollies to be Ruddbots?
This country has become dullsville, man!
Isnt it funny how talihunter (Alex Hakwe) posted a comment at 15:56…
As an avid observer of our parliamnetary system was about 10 mintues after Question Time ended.
Is that what you do Alex, rush back and check Vex News?
I guess what you told the Sun Herald “I don’t have time to do most of that stuff any more – certainly as a party person through the years you do things internally but when you get elected that’s not the focus and it ought not to be the focus”.
I guess its just another one of your lies.
David Clarke
Marie Ficarra
Greg Smith
Noel McCoy
Dominic Perrottet
Charles Perrottet
Nat Smith
Jerome Smith
Jimmy Rowe
Nick Adams
Phil Meehan
Wade McInerney
Ed Dyga
Damian Tudehope
John Tudehope
Tim Abrams
Gerard Abrams
Michael Towke
and the list goes on……
Alex (aka taliwhacker), now that you’ve got that messy right-wing factional fight behind you, can we focus on getting me preselected for Berowra. You did promise to pay me back.
Hey Group,
How does it feel to know you are losing the media war. Or that News Ltd. will never take anything Hawke or Campbell feed them again without taking it with a grain of salt, considering they cost them $50,000 and legal fees.
One major strategic blunder after another.
You have no contacts. You have no ideology. You have no idea what you are getting yourselves into.
You must all dread getting up in the morning, only to be defeated handsomely by a few.
Just for the record, I don’t believe in factions, only that there should be intellectually honest and talented people in the Liberal party, and not opportunist.
keep believing the hype.
Whilst the religious extremists keep fighting battles through the media, those smarter individuals will be winning the real war, branch by branch, conference by conference, seat by seat.
Clarke, Marie, Greg Smith and other recalcitrants should be very afraid…..
Beccy Merzi
Daniel LeClare
Scott Farlow
Penny George-Farlow
Mark Lewis
Justin Simons
Ben Potts
Sara Moore
Simon Fontanna
Amy Houston
Andrew Jeffries
Why do people say that I’m a cross dresser?
Who cares about Michael Photios and his philandering ways!
There is much more pressing issue at hand: I have been slandered in the SMH!
http://www.smh.com.au/national/whats-in-a-name-coles-biscuit-slammed-as-racist-20091026-hgkb.html
How dare they name a biscuit after my proud heritage…evil bastards.
Do you know how sh*t this makes me feel.
Posted by Noel McCoy | October 27, 2009, 9:36
First there were anti-semitic remarks, now there are racist couloured jokes.
I wonder who the real tallies are?
I like men.
Yawn! This is an article about The Group and I’m still reading sh*t about Hawke.
There used to be some good dirt dished out in these threads and some funny remarks and inside jokes. Now most of what I’m reading is a yawn.
And why are they now getting all racial on Noel McCoy???
That’s bad form Alex control your message. You need to hold another Haberfield meeting because your mindless cronies appear lost for things to think and say.
And two the people who put the names on the two factional lists… Compare the talent pool! The John Howard Right wins hands down. The presence of talented people always made Alex feel insecure.
…Oooh! Alex has political masterminds like Beccy Merzi & Justin Simon. Now I’m worried! lol.
Dearest John
Janette could never ‘polish’ your ‘little fat soldier’ like I did.
My mummy sayed I’m spesal.
Freddie, you seriously need to wake up and smell the roses, my friend.
The Taliban are not the John Howard Conservatives you silly boy. In fact, I remember the days when David Clarke used to run around telling all and sundry about how bad John Howard was, the same message he delivers today to Alan Jones about Alex Hawke.
The truth of the matter is that John Howard and the Firm were always suspicious of the nutjobs who ran around with David Clarke. Remember, it was Howard who wanted to dump Towke and keep Marise Payne in the Senate because he was always sus on who that nutter Clarke wanted to elect.
Remember who Howard used to employ in his office? People like Anthony Roberts, Jamie Briggs, Tim James, Chris Stone, Andrew Jeffries and others who were all conservative in their views, but not extreme or aligned with Opus Dei figures like Clarke.
In fact, none of the Taliban, except maybe McCoy, have ever been employed with an MP or Senator of any note. Even that useless mafiose character, Ficarra, doesn’t employ Young Libs in her office, preferring to keep that fat loser, De Luca off the dole queue…. If Perrottet got elected to Castle Hill, he would employ that slimy, friendless Oakhill nerd, Chad Sidler – highlighting the strength of the Talibani talent pool!
The Talis are just a useless, good for nothing rent a crowd who stack branches with opus dei associaties. If you’re not one of them, you’re automatically a lefty. What a sad bunch of people they really are?
They are not good for democracy, the Liberal Party or the people of New South Wales.
Thanks for that Chad!
Alan Jones is spot on again when he says that Alex Hawke “is a cancer on the Liberal Party”
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexFanClub
Alex has been playing “bikie gang politics” for quite a while now and it has to stop.
Once again the Alex Fan Club is proud to say that we had more hits in a week than Alex’s maiden speech had in a year!
Alan Jones is a fat gay dinosaur.
When will people wake up to his lies?
Can we evict this bloke Hawke from the party already?
He is not the life of the party, he is the cancer of the Liberals partay.
Note to Hawke: call the cops again to shut down our partay, and we’ll have stomp-ons waiting for you on the rugby field the next time we play!
LOL. I only have to look at that so-called ‘hard right’ list. And work out who’s on it, who actually have a job! And why is it that all of the talented people such as Greg Smith, a Senior Council, is called a liar? Also, I see after Hawke was exposed, and justice is taking it’s course, that Michael Towke has been vindicated. Who would have thought?
“Alan Jones is a fat gay dinosaur.
When will people wake up to his lies?”
Coming from the master of lies Alex Hawke. You’re king of the kids because grown up’s don’t take you seriously.
Grown up’s like Alan Jones.
But go on have a tantrum if you want. You are such a looser Hawke.
Haberfield! whatever happened to that joke of an outfit?
Last time they met was when Hawke tried to stack it full of his sock puppets, like ‘Death Warmed Up’ and ‘More Dicks than Hot Breakfasts’. that was funny
H has been useless for about 5 years now. i don’t know why it persisted, but i bet it will never meet again now
I like wearing a dress and high heels. Could I come to your party Michael?
Ok, let us have a look at the smart young kids of the Tali. These are the real up and comers of the Liberal Party.
Mr/Ms “OhPlease” – loser not “looser”, why do you have an apostrophe after the “up” and before the “s”? Must be what they teach at Redfield.
Mr/Ms “The List” – for such an ardent support of Greg Smith SC you think you may have looked up that it stands for “Senior Counsel” and not “Council”. I don’t believe the man is some Local Government authority. Can you also please go through and tell me the exact imputations or accusations News Corporation made against Mr Towke that were not true and also explain which ones were true.
Heh, well good on you Justin. You see, News Corp settled… and the Liberal party apologised! You air head!!! So why don’t you catch up with the news, stop denying that this didn’t happen, and rack off to a public toilet somewhere!?!?!
Beccy Merzi
Daniel LeClare
Scott Farlow
Penny George-Farlow
Mark Lewis
Justin Simons
Ben Potts
Sara Moore
Simon Fontanna
Amy Houston
Andrew Jeffries
Posted by People who beloing in the right of the Labor party, which most of these people listed above will take as a compliment |
It has come to this. The factions are now bickering over spelling and grammar.
Oh dear.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/28/2726965.htm
Liberals in NSW in total and utter disarray.
Police Minister Michael Daley drawing to the attention of the Parliament the fact that the Liberal party are at war with each other and that MP Alex Hawke wasted police time and resources.
I’m back from Samoa
Fornication is a sin according to my Catholic faith. Burn in Hell Mike!!!
Michael Photios… yes, a man the party should watch very closely. Not very conservative?