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Barnaby Joyce has just quit the Nationals.
Bridget McKenzie said that Barnaby Joyce’s legacy will be tarnished if he joins One Nation. I’m inclined to agree.
If he had any legacy to start with…
i think it is a blessing for the Coalition otherwise he is a distraction. It is time for the Nats to move on
@Nimalan now it’s time for Alex Antić, Matt Canavan and others to move on too.
Antic has just been reelected. Canavan probly isnt going anywhere. If Landry retires and the qld redistribution is favourable enough he may run in the lower house. He has ambitions to be leader so i doubt hes going anywhere.
Who did Barnaby defeat….Tony Windsor
Who was a independent
I am sick and tired of people being elected as a party member…then deciding to leave that party and become independent. Barnaby should now resign and recontest the seat as an independent. But no…. not the integrity to do that does not exist.
@mick barnabyhas no intentnion of recontesting the seat hes stated as much
also tony windsor didnt face Barnaby in 2013 he retired. he then came back in 2016 but lost convincingly
@john
I know what Barnaby said and what happened in 2016.
But I suggest what SHOULD..happen
@Mick You know, I’d rather an MP leave their party to sit as an independent, than a Senator doing it.
Because let’s be fair here, a Senate vote is a vote for a party (except in the ACT and Tassie, where Pocock and Lambie do well). No one really looks at the names on the ticket of a party, they’ll just vote for the party regardless. At least with an MP, that MP’s name is directly on a ballot paper.
Of course, neither situation is ideal, but those are my two cents.
The solution for the senate is the newly independent mp resigns and the seat is filled by the party who they represented.
Re lower house the newly independent. Mp should resign and if they wish recontest as an independent.
To do other than this is fraud
“Barnaby should now resign and recontest the seat as an independent. But no…. not the integrity to do that does not exist.”
@Mick
Mick I agree with the spirit of what your saying. But Barnaby is retiring as the member of New England at the next election anyway. It’s a fruitless exercise him resigning and recontesting the bye-election. It’s a waste of tax payers money.