Mean Boy Morrison

Originally posted by colincj: ↑

An order cancelling democratic votes for Liberal Party candidates in favour of having them picked by Prime Minister Scott Morrison and other party bosses is causing uproar among grassroots party members.On Sunday, the federal Liberal Party voted to shut down its New South Wales branch and install Mr Morrison on a committee to pick party candidates for nine key seats.The extraordinary move came after months of infighting in which Liberals argued Mr Morrison and his factional allies had been trying to stop democratic contests and install political allies.The move could stop a fierce and distracting argument playing out over delayed preselections just before the May election.Compromise has repeatedly failed, attempts to hold democratic votes have been blocked, and factional deals have not been upheld, seemingly leaving the party at an impasse.Mr Morrison has long been advocating for the NSW branch to be shut down so that favoured candidates could be installed.Opponents say cutting grassroots members out of the preselection process has angered much of the Liberal base, which could hurt the party on polling day.The nine candidates to be chosen by the committee had been facing preselection challenges to be decided by votes. Now their passage will be assured.‘Hands were tied’A member of the Liberal federal executive told The New Daily on Sunday that it was left with no option but to shut down the NSW Liberals.“Given the state of the NSW Liberal Party, our hands were completely tied,” the source said.“It’s five minutes to midnight. And the NSW Liberal Party is completely factionalised and cannot reach agreement on fundamental issues of party procedure.”A majority of senior members from across the party’s factions believe that the party’s impasse was largely engineered by the Immigration Minister and Mr Morrison’s key ally in the centre-right faction, Alex Hawke.Mr Hawke, who sits on the party’s nomination review committee, consistently failed to show up to preselection meetings, delaying candidate selection for months on end.That, critics say, created a sense of crisis and provided the justification for a takeover of the party so that candidates allied to factional bosses and Mr Morrison could be installed.

Morrison is just not a Mean Boy looks like he is a Bully boy as well

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