Kelly has been saved twice in pre selection at the next election he will rejected by the voters in Hughes,he has done the LNP a great service by resigning so they can elect a decent candidate that will represent the majority views of the people in the seat rather than the conspiracy theories that abound on the internet for fool's to absorb.
Kelly’s defection is broadly Trumpist in several ways.First, it displays absolute contempt for the Liberal Party that has nurtured Kelly, provided his political career and allowed him to rise to a national prominence that his intrinsic ability would most likely not have reached any other way. This is just the way many true Trumpists hold the Republican Party in contempt.Kelly apparently has no regard for the people who worked to put him in parliament and the party bosses who saved his preselection. And if Liberal conservatives think the moderates are being mean to them inside the party, they would be well served to campaign to get the numbers inside the party, not try to blow the party up. If Kelly runs for his seat at the election under any guise, he makes it more likely Labor will win the seat.Secondly, Kelly’s main political argument was against Australia’s medical institutions. I have no criticism of Kelly for holding minority views but he apparently thinks he knows better what medical treatments to advise than do our medical authorities.For a conservative politician to express that view shows a repudiation of all the traditional wisdom and prudence of conservatives.theaustralian.com.au4:35Craig Kelly has 'changed things' for the governmentSky News contributor Jim Middleton says "things have changed" for the government as a "consequence" of MP Craig Kelly's decision to cross the floor, removing the government's working majority.More than that, Kelly was often extremely equivocal about vaccination, shared a microphone with an anti-vaxxer, and sent out what were at best very confusing messages on vaccination.Encouraging Australians to get vaccinated is core government policy and an essential health message. To ask a politician whose career is owed to the party that sponsors him to abide by that minimal amount of government policy is reasonable.Mavericks can make big contributions in political parties but only if they accept at least some limits on their egos. Jim Molan magnificently pushes his government to do more on defence and security but he doesn’t need to hold the Liberal Party in contempt to make that contribution.Egocentric populists are seldom really concerned with articulating the people’s view. In the toxic environment of contemporary politics, they are more often about attracting a disaffected 10 per cent who can be prone to conspiracy theories and amorphous feelings of hostility.
