Piers Akerman: Donald Trump’s support for PM exposes Left’s lies
To the chagrin of the hate-filled Left and self-loathing luvvie Liberals, US President Donald Trump gave our Prime Minister a big thumbs up after an unscheduled meeting at the G20 meeting in Buenos Aires, Piers Akerman writes.
Forget the histrionics of a handful of Liberal and former Liberal men and women, Prime Minister ScoMo is showing some of the mojo true Liberals have been waiting for.
To the chagrin of the hate-filled Left and self-loathing luvvie Liberals, US President Donald Trump gave our Prime Minister a big thumbs up after an unscheduled meeting at the G20 meeting in Buenos Aires.
The leaders had not been due to meet but President Trump ditched a meeting with the evil Russian President Vladimir Putin after Russia’s outrageous hijacking of Ukrainian naval vessels — opening up an opportunity for a sidelines discussion with PM Morrison.
Trump later told media he anticipated a “fantastic relationship” with Morrison.
“We are just getting to know each other … so far so good,” Trump told reporters.
“I know you’ve done a very good job in a very short period of time.
“You’ve done a lot of things they’ve wanted to be done, that’s why you’re sitting right here.”
Trump’s endorsement shames the ABC and the Fairfax media, which have been running the Labor Party’s lines against Morrison and the Coalition.
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It often takes an outsider to cut through the baloney pushed on Australia by these two media organisations, and Trump’s words effectively belled the Morrison naysayers both within and without the Liberal party.
Earlier in the week, former Liberal MP Julia Banks and former foreign minister Julie Bishop displayed their weaknesses with disgraceful acts designed to denigrate Morrison and the Liberal Party stalwarts who supported their election campaigns.
As The Australian’s front-page pointedly asserted, dumped former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has been “the invisible hand” creating unrest in the Liberal Party.
Turnbull was rejected by a majority of his colleagues in the Liberal party room and lost the job those colleagues gave him after he white-anted his predecessor Tony Abbott through serial leaks from the Cabinet in which Abbott had — graciously but in hindsight perhaps unwisely — given him a chair.
That act of decency was greeted with acts of treachery which are ongoing, as we saw with Turnbull’s failure to provide critical support to the Liberal candidate Dave Sharma during the Wentworth by-election that Turnbull’s resignation brought on in October.
Turnbull’s regular contact with the independent Kerryn Phelps, who took his former seat, and the assistance provided to her by staffers from Turnbull’s electorate office, is an unprecedented act of bastardry that left MPs from both sides of politics stunned.
It was therefore reassuring that the state executive of the otherwise apparently dysfunctional NSW Liberal Party used its special powers to unanimously endorse Sharma as the party’s candidate to challenge Dr Phelps at the federal election likely to be held next May.
Morrison, who before the by-election said he favoured a woman candidate, has come to his senses and backed merit before gender politics as a prerequisite for preselection, now being soundly of the view Sharma is the best person to run as the endorsed candidate.
Banks was also in regular contact with Phelps, before she betrayed her party supporters and made a series of unsupported claims of sexism and bullying in the Liberal Party, eagerly taken up by Our ABC and Fairfax but never examined.
The treatment meted out to Banks, who has so disloyally walked away from her Chisholm constituents, stands in stark contrast to that received by Craig Kelly, MP for Hughes, who has pledged to stay in the Liberal Party despite threats from a mediocrity to his pre-selection. He believes he has a contract with the party and his supporters to remain as the Liberal he was when they elected him.
As amusingly hypocritically, Bishop — still smarting after her failure to gain the support of a single one of her West Australian colleagues in her leadership bid — has also been critical of the culture of parliament, claiming she was “appalled” by behaviour which would not be tolerated in a law firm.
Bishop, when foreign minister, had no problem with her department promoting the ridiculous Yassmin Al Magied as the face of Australian women. And last week she donated a pair of fashionable red shoes to a Canberra museum as a symbol of female power.
Fashionable outfits, including shoes, are surely the most powerful vehicles for sexism on the planet, screaming “look at me, look at me” to those who can’t afford the designer labels and baubles Bishop flaunts, presumably with the intention of attracting attention?
Banks and her cohort of the irrelevant gain traction with the Left media through their laughable claims that something called the alt-Right has taken over the Liberal Party.
In reality, the reverse was true under Turnbull’s dismal leadership — unless it is an insult to the Turnbull Liberals to bring in a Budget surplus, or provide reliable and efficient power, or attempt to strip costly green taxes from the price of energy?
With unemployment hovering around the 5 per cent level nationally, the economy doing well against the international odds, and Labor’s Bill Shorten pandering to union thugs with his threats to restore union power to the job-destroying levels of the Whitlam era — and to kill what remains of industry by condemning coal and signing up to emission targets endorsed by four-year-old kindergarten students — what’s not to like about the Coalition?
A successful politician needs first and foremost energy and temperament.
In recent performances in parliament, Scott Morrison has shown that he has these qualities, and now they have been recognised by Trump.
Morrison also met French President Emmanuel Macron and outgoing Brazilian President Michel Temer before leaving Buenos Aires.
He has nothing to learn from either leader but, in terms of being effective, Trump offers a masterclass.
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