Victorian Liberal Party turmoil

Posted by on May 10, 2008, 4:53pm, 492 views

Red Ted The Victorian Liberal Party has sacked two staffers for running a hostile blog critical of leader “Red” Ted Baillieu.

The Age reported this online and it was exposed in detail on Andrew Landeryou’s blog.

Landeryou also links to copies of the offending blog, which is now officially accessible by invitation only.

Liberal Party Victorian president David Kemp said the pair had “been involved in acts of gross misconduct prejudicial to the party”.

“The use of blog sites by party members or staff with the specific intention of publicly undermining the party’s leader … and other party members is conduct which is gravely detrimental, … and will not be tolerated under any circumstance,” Dr Kemp said.

I quite enjoyed reading the critical blog and the authors are obviously well informed.

It’s the right decision though to clear out rowers who are paddling in the opposite direction. How long “Red Ted” can survive is another matter.

As the blog noted: “By placing him and (National Party leader Peter) Ryan in the spotlight together the high performing National leader will by contrast highlight Baillieu’s inadequacy for office.”

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