Dancing with clowns

May 6, 2008, 6:07pm, 380 views,  2 Comments

Queensland Nationals leader Lawrence Springborg (the clown in a tie) wants to merge his party with the dysfunctional Liberals to create a new conservative force.

The reckless manoeuvre threatens to destabilise non-Labor politics in Australia for many years.

There is no way the Western Australian or Victorian branches of the Nationals will buy it and Liberals across the country are sceptical.

Springborg has somehow persuaded his own state branch to go along with the idea. About 97 percent of members backed it in a recent poll. Read more