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Sources inside the National Party have told The Advocate that Deputy Leader Bridget McKenzie has lost the ability to tell herself that she’s done nothing wrong regarding the sports rort grant.
For weeks now, the under-siege senator has been able to look herself in the mirror each morning and tell herself that everyone is wrong and what she did was OK.
Now, as more and more information leaks, it seems the tide is starting to shift.
This inability to tell yourself that you’ve done nothing wrong is the critical first step to accepting responsibility, says Dr Grace Hartwell from the South Betoota Polytechnic School of Political Science.
“We should expect a resignation shortly,” said Dr Hartwell.
“The loss of belief in yourself, as a politician, is the death rattle. Just look at Andrew Broad. He lost belief in himself to represent the Victorian hot country, so he left,”
“We’re talking about a $100 million fraud. That’s not the government’s money. That’s yours. That’s the money that comes out of your pay packet each week. You have given tens of thousands of dollars to the Penrith Egg and Spoon Racing Club because it’s in one of the most marginal seats in Australia,”
“Same with Georgina Downer. That whole affair has put the biggest, fattest full stop at the end of the Downer political dynasty. It’s just appalling. It’s downright disgusting, the lack of respect these talentless seat-fillers have for the Australian taxpayer is simply astounding,”
“You should be angry, not disappointed. That time has passed.”
Dr Hartwell took a minute to breathe.
“Mark my words, Bridget’s inability to toot her own horn in the morning means it’s curtains. Surely.”
More to come.
