Knobby22
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John Pesutto understands that he needs to change the image of the party. He wants to win the next election.Always had time for John Pesutto. Bit of clarity and statesmanship in that stand.
Don't know how it will go down with the hard right Christain conservative group.
At the moment they act like an opposition only, infighting over a diminishing number of seats, courting the extreme right on niche issues and believing Sky News stuff to their detriment.
These days, some in the party has become aligned the the extreme right which make them unvoteable. Even though Labor has been in a number of terms, there is a bit of a stink and everyone is sick of seeing Dan Andrews all the time, the Libs lost the last election by even more than the previous biggest ever landslide election.
The only voters they are attracting are the extreme right and the neo Nazis.
When they got in last time they had moderates in charge and concentrated on helping small business, control of debt, infrastructure, public transport, healthcare etc. it's a state government, that is what people care about.
Now we get neo Nazi types hating sections of the community - black immigrants, trans people, gay people, super strong views on banning abortion, virtually no women in their ranks, a complete inablity to attack Andrews. Honestly if Bolt and Newscorp manage to get rid of Pesutto now as they are trying to do, they will lose the next election by even more!!!