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DOYLE OUT
Robert Doyle has quit the leadership of Victoria’s Liberal Party. Rumours swirl of a possible Jeff Kennett comeback.
Please God no Jeff.
As much as I want to get rid of Hymie the voice activated robot, going back to Jeff is regressive in the extreme and shrieks of party that has f..k all else to offer.
How about offering up the Lasher?
That would silence all the bean-flickers at the Lyceum Club who lament about the lack of women in power.
Posted by Jay Santos on 2006 05 03 at 11:12 PM • permalinkSuch relevance at federal level, such irrelevance in the states…
Posted by closeapproximation on 2006 05 03 at 11:34 PM • permalinkDoyle was as much of a windbag as Beazley. And he’s a teacher. People don’t like their Liberal leaders being teachers. Apparently Kennett can be leader even if not in Parlt. Alternatively, someone might leave early, by-election held, Kennett in safe seat by November. Pick up preferences from minor parties such as FF, Liberals in, Bracks out. Sack all the thousands of bureaucrats Bracks has brought in, slash PR and useless Govt. advertising spending ...
Fantasy? Or possible?
I think he would, spyder.
He pretty much left in a high dudgeon when he got his arse kicked by Bracks (aka Steve Who?). It smacked of taking his bat and ball and going home.
I’d vote for him. After the dogs breakfast that this state has become, anything to get the Lefties out.
Desparate times are calling for desparate measures and there are a lot of disillusioned voters out there. He’s done his time out in the wilderness, so he can come back now.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 05 03 at 11:58 PM • permalinkNo way would Jeff do it again. His wife Felicity wouldn’t stand for it. I liked Doyle, but I thought he was weighed down by the rest of the party.
Who could forget the farce at the last election when his treasurer had to resign over enrolment blunders. That screwed his chances for that election, otherwise he might have had a decent show.
Posted by Mr Hackenbacker on 2006 05 04 at 12:02 AM • permalinkOh man, I’m hoping and praying that Jeff comes back, and I’m an atheist.
Please Jeff, PLEASE!!!
Posted by Stone Cold on 2006 05 04 at 12:22 AM • permalinkHardly confirmed. Kennett said this:
Former premier Jeff Kennett will consider making a political comeback as leader of the Liberal Opposition in Victoria.
Mr Kennett said today he will consult with family and colleagues before making a decision on whether to make a run for the leadership position.
“I will use the next 48 hours to consult with my existing and former colleagues, with those whose advice I think highly of, and obviously my family,” he said this afternoon.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/kennett-considers-a-comeback/2006/05/04/1146335851258.html
Do it for us Jeff!
Posted by attilathepun on 2006 05 04 at 03:44 AM • permalinkBreaking on the news.com.au system—
PM encourages Kennett comeback
Prime Minister John Howard says he would welcome a return to politics by former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett.
Mr Kennett told reporters he would consider a comeback following the resignation of state Liberal leader Robert Doyle today.
A spokesman for Mr Howard said the Prime Minister would welcome Mr Kennett’s return to politics.
He said Mr Howard had “long believed politics had never left Mr Kennett’s blood”.
Mr Kennett today said he had received approaches which deserved to be seriously considered.
This has to make it pretty much a certainty.
I thought Doyle never got a fair shake, but Lib’s policies were not different to Labor’s. Whatever loony ideas Labor came up with on social issues and the environment the Libs went along with it. If Kennett gets up perhaps we’ll get a lovely new dam on the Mitchell River, rather than Brack’s crackpot plan to use Dight’s Falls as source of water.
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 05 04 at 06:08 AM • permalinkHope Jeff does make a comeback. As a politician he is hated by everyone from Point Hicks to the SA border, except for a couple writers here. The Libs will lose 5 seats in each of the next State and Fed elections, and the Feds will have to recall RAMSI from the Solomons and send them down to Lib Party HQ in Melbourne.
#26- the federal liberal party isn’t exactly swimming in talent either- it’s more a case of the less retarded ones go federal, the real dipshits, losers and half-wits are inflicted on the states, and you don’t want to know about what winds up on councils. A species test would clean out 90% of incumbent alderpersons nation wide.
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