stumpjumper wrote:Dog, you forgot McEwen and Lewis, and a few more, many years before in the Liberal Movement, which the Libs are STILL seething about.Have the Liberals learned nothing from how they treated Such, Brock, Evans and Maywald.
After more argument in my office about MHS:
What he did wasn't illegal. It may have pissed off people who voted for him, but that's between him and his electorate. They voted for him to do as he saw fit to represent them, and he has.
But there is also an issue, not where an MHS takes the initiative to change his allegiance for the good of the state as he sees it, but where a predatory would-be government approaches opposition candidates with lucrative personal offers to change sides. That seems to me to make the ballot box irrelevant, and makes the process undemocratic, whichever side is making the offers, and is not a proper basis for forming a government.
You are acting like he is the first one to jump off an almost totally sunk ship that still hasn't realized it's almost completely submerged in it's own bullshit.
Why would a man who isn't short of money and actually doesn't have to put him self in the public eye for scrutiny, put him self and his family through the distress that they've been put through by idiots in our society, for a few extra dollars in his bank account? He is a successful business man. The man will receive a very generous pension when he retires from politics. The man was also on a very generous pay packet in the opposition. It's not as if our politicians are paid so little that they have to work second jobs or line up at Centerlink fortnightly so they can pay their bills.
Let's be serious here. All this bullshit about him is being generated by the Liberal party and it's fanboys like Stumpjumper, and especially those in the Advertiser building.
Those who aren't butthurt over him quitting to join the government, have had nothing but POSITIVE things to say about him.
Business leaders. Hm, that's interesting isn't it.
You actually have to give him and the government some credit here, because their behavior is partly that of people who want to work together to better our state. Their actions have so far backed up their statements, more or less.
Martin Hamilton Smith has been accompanying our state trade minister on overseas trips. That level of bipartisan cooperation has been noticed in the countries they've visited on trade trips and noted as quite remarkable. If you can't see that that is a positive image being presented by our elected leaders for our state, then you need to take your political blinkers off.
MHS has dropped a few obvious hints as to why he really quit. It's got nothing to do with money. You can keep banging on with your usual anti-Labor bullshit stumpjumper, but all Labor is guilty of in this affair is trying to sure up it's numbers to create a stable government. A stable government is in the interests of South Australia and every South Australian.
He mentioned he has plenty of dirt to dish..about what? Well, about loyalty, betrayal...hmm..wasn't this man once the leader of the Liberal party? Hmm..I wonder what he could be talking about.
It's also been mentioned he had a vision for the state. Tell me, has any other Liberal politician presented us with a vision for our state? Any plans? Anything at all besides bickering, mud slinging at Labor, and the usual substance lacking media releases?
One thing I did like from the Liberals was the stadium over the rail yards..the idea, not what they actually came up with. Whose vision was that?
Heck even Alexander Downer has steered clear of taking over the SA state Liberals. I wonder why.
Like I said, it's now up to MHS and Labor to live up to their claims.