11/07/2025
Hi,
Sometimes jokes just write themselves, and sometimes they just exist, for example, the South Australian Liberal Party.
And so today's post, 'The Ship So Wrecked Even The Rats Won't Get On'.
The SA Liberals are in such catastrophic collapse that even Ben Hood and Nicole Flint have declined/refused to nominate for the upcoming State Election.
Ol' mate Benny was reportedly gunna' have a crack at either the House of Assembly (Lower House) seats of McKillop or Mt Gambier, and Nicole at McKillop, but both have now 'withdrawn'.
The Liberals closed their nomination process without either challenging, but have since 're-opened' the process, whatevs.
Point being, Benno has already lost the 2022 election to the multi-charged Troy Bell, before being parachuted into the Legislative Council (Upper House) by his Liberal buddies.
The Benster ain't about to give-up his MLC grift for another likely loss to whoevs runs against him in Mt Gambier.
And what's genuinely hilarious about this is that Pentecostal/Fundamentalist Christians have been openly branch-stacking the Liberal Party to get control of it, with a view to banning abortion, Marriage Equality, etc etc, and they've achieved exactly nuthin'.
But I'm hesitant to celebrate the Liberals/Pentecostals' demise 'cos the last thing SA needs is the rancidly corrupt Labor Party having unfettered control of the Parliament.
Healthy Democracy requires healthy/functional opposition/accountability to the ruling entity.
To expand my hilarious 'Rats And The Sinking Ship' metaphor, it begs the question, what sort of rat would try to get on said wreck?
Enter stooge left, ol' mate MLC Frank Pangallo, who skated into Parliament on Nick Xenophon's coat-tails, and now realises his MLC grift is coming to a crashing halt in March next year.
And introducing Frank demands another Child Abuse Content Warning for this post, 'cos Frank is deeply/intimately complicit in the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, as indeed are the Liberals.
Firstly as the producer of Ch7's Today Tonight, then as Chair of his 'ICAC Harms Inquiry', then March last year, when he used my ICAC 'trial' stuff in Parliament to attack ICAC, asked for my help, did nothing, then threatened me with 'defamation'.
I've covered all this at length in posts on TMGI Blog, so I'm not gunna' trawl through it all again, if you wanna' check that out see The Blog.
Suffice to say Frank is so desperate to Maintain The Grift that he's vying for (already has?) pre-selection as a Liberal candidate.
And that's the sortta' rat that gets on a sinking ship.
Cheers, Nick.