ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact
The Liberal Party council has met members from the ABC Board this morning at either end of a foggy bridge in Sydney to trade their defacto leader Tony Jones for their future existence.
Earlier this week, the Liberal Party’s engine room voted to make privatising the public broadcaster part of their policy moving forward.
That news was not received well at the ABC’s Ultimo Kremlin, where Jones and his political allies have enjoyed relative safety – until now.
This morning, around daybreak, four directors from the ABC’s board bundled and shackled Tony Jones outside his official Glebe residence and threw him in the back of a late model Mercedes Benz Vito van.
They drove him two hours west, two hours wester than Jones has reportedly been ever before, to an undisclosed location that’s been used in the past to trade spies and the like.
The suspended footway over the mighty Hawkesbury River was draped in a thick fog, making the other side where the Liberals were invisible.
Our reporter was there as they pulled Jones from the van and told him to start walking.
“Tony understood what he had to do,” he said.
“He knew he was being sacrificed for the greater good of the ABC. He knew that this whole privatisation debate was sparked by how incredibly biased he is toward the inner-city-left-elite that keep the nation’s art scene alive,”
“So he walked. Somewhere around halfway, he should meet a circumcised Young National in a fresh pair of moleskins and a double-pocketed dress shirt carrying an envelope with a signed guarantee from Malcolm Turnbull that the ABC won’t be privatised as well as a personal apology for this whole debacle,”
“Should be interesting to see how this pans out.”
This is a developing story.
More to come.
