The Victorian Liberal Party is embroiled in a damaging internal conflict following a vote against the reappointment of Moira Deeming. John Pesutto, the party's leader, used his casting vote to maintain Deeming's expulsion despite a court ruling that her original removal was based on a lie.
Those decent Liberals who watched John Pesutto ’s slippery and dishonourable performance today would be shaking their heads in a mix of anger and dismay.
How can anyone claiming to have integrity, let alone to be a credible alternative premier, comprehensively lose a defamation case – and not just fail to apologize to the person he’s defamed, but insist on continuing to exclude her from the party room even though a judge has ruled that her original expulsion was based on a lie?It’s hard not to despair of the Victorian parliamentary Liberal Party.They’ve been out of office for 21 of the past 25 years; they’ve never offered a clear alternative to an increasingly green left and now obviously inept Labor Party; most of the bad laws crippling Victoria they haven’t opposed and won’t overturn; for much of the past decade they’ve been intimidated by former premier Daniel Andrews; and today, with the party room deadlocked 14-14 on a motion to readmit Moira Deeming, Pesutto then used his casting vote to continue her exile. Even how he voted is rotten given he voted once in the original 14 and then again with his casting vote.How unfair is that: Pesutto gets to vote twice and Deeming – who, based on a court’s findings, should never have been expelled in the first place – doesn’t get a vote at all?Almost as contemptible as Pesutto is the self-indulgent cabal of MPs who no longer support him but voted with him today to give them more time to marshal the numbers to grab the leadership in the impending spill.Indeed, the only reason it didn’t happen today is that they can’t decide which of them gets the top job.This has long been the cancer within the Victorian parliamentary Liberal Party: MPs fighting over the thin spoils of opposition rather than crafting comprehensive policies to improve the state of the state.Liberal party members voted on Friday against the reappointment of Moira Deemin
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