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Greens grasp at each others’ throats with another senior MP attacked by fellow lefties

This is an internal complaint made against NSW Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham’s factional manoeuvres. Published on The Australian online, yesterday:

The Greens NSW can no longer, like some institutions, turn a blind eye to serious misbehaviour by its MPs or sweep it under the carpet.

And here’s another internal complaint against the Greens’ candidate in the federal Batman by-election, Alex Bhathal. Published in The Australian, March 1:

Her tactics have become more ­aggressive and ruthless, her breaches of the code of conduct more flagrant and brazen, her ­behaviour many magnitudes more destructive.

The Greenie rabble falls apart. A struggling Richard Di Natale, ABC’s Four Corners, August 14 last year:

We think it’s really important that we have an opportunity to make it really clear that — certainly as the leader of the party, and of the partyroom — that we are united.

Is it time for Bob Brown to come back from his intergalactic adventures and save them? The ex-Greens leader in Tasmania, March 23, 2012:

So far, it seems like we are the lone thinkers in this vast, expanding ­universe.

In another corner of the galaxy, former Donald Trump aide (and present Russia inquiry target) Sam Nunberg on MSNBC, yesterday:

Trump may have very well done something during the election. I don’t know what it is. I could be wrong, by the way.

Nunberg changes his tune later on CNN, yesterday:

No, I’m not protecting him (Trump), but he didn’t do anything.

Not that Nunberg likes the President very much. The former aide speaking on another CNN show a few hours later:

Donald Trump caused this (Russia probe) because he’s an idiot.

Nunberg has been subpoenaed by the FBI but he’s refusing to testify in front of a grand jury. The ex-aide’s second CNN interview, continued:

Nunberg: Do you think I should co-operate? Should I spend 80 hours going over my emails, Jake?

Jake Tapper: If it were me, I would …

Nunberg is not finished. The former Trump aide goes on MSNBC for a second time, yesterday:

If Mr (Robert) Mueller wants to send me to jail, he can send me to jail and I’ll laugh about it.

Finally, he is asked the ultimate question. Nunberg’s third CNN ­appearance of the day:

Erin Burnett: Talking to you, I have smelled alcohol on your breath.

Nunberg: I haven’t had a drink …

Burnett: Anything else?

Nunberg: No. Besides my meds.

Back at home, ex-Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie gives us too much information. The former senator on Melbourne’s 3AW, yesterday:

I must be the only one not in the bonking circle (in Canberra) because I’m certainly not getting any.

She certainly shows a “healthy” ­interest in sex. Lambie responds to accusations from a former staff member on Sky News, August 15:

We did go and visit an adult shop …

Did she invite any fellow senators? Lambie on 3AW, yesterday:

I did try with Nick Xenophon once but he took me out on a cheap date … He took me to Kentucky Fried ­Chicken so that was it.

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