Just gotta ask - why are these nongs backing Brough?!

I mean with such a damning finding, how do they think they can carry the baggage to the election. I've always considered the opposition front bench to be a rag-tag bunch...but now they're resembling the cast of third-rate circus.

Come on, SM, you must realise that backing Brough is untenable under the circumstances.

I wonder how things will play out between now and the election?

Poirot you may not get an answer from SM.
But his last post is telling.
Yours about the future? we live in interesting times.
Here are the reasons heads must roll,in my view
Fact, Slipper served in both conservative teams and was admired by many, Abbott went as a mate to his wedding.
Your post, and the judgment, points to long term links with his accuser.
Libs, fact, had targeted Slipper on behalf of Bough, to take his seat.
Slipper played his cards, took the speakers job, not the first or last from every side to do some thing like that.
We KNOW via media and this judgment, a CONSPIRACY took place.
This is SLIPPER GATE.
Abbott,s pursuit of so many while defending this reminds us, he is unfit to lead.

Following on the same train of thought as to "..Why are these nongs backing Brough?"

One can only surmise that they owe him something - or that he was only another player amidst a much grander cast of players.

So what was Pyne doing asking for Ashby's email?

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/pyne-email-surfaces-as-coverup-claims-persist-20120503-1y1df.html

Poirot, Belly et al,

I hear all this faux outrage, and detailed analysis, but not one tiny trace of anything even vaguely illegal from the coalition. Yet huge hypocrisy when not one of you lot muttered a word when Juliar bought Slipper's allegiance.

Belly,

You make assertions that I am dishonest, however, you are yet to show where anything I have posted is false. Put your money where your mouth is.

Lenore Taylor, Political Correspondent for The Sydney
Morning Herald points out that "Most of all this case
raises questions about the vicious political climate of
2012, about rushing to judgement for political gain, about
the personal consequences that can have, and about all the
other things we could have been talking about..."

Surely it is now time to take stock of how politics is
being conducted?

SM,

You keep harping on about a lack of illegality.

There was nothing illegal about Gillard appointing Slipper...why are you making such a fuss, in that case?

The reason you are making such a fuss is that you perceive Gillard's actions as "unethical".

Yet!!...you cannot bring yourself to condemn the Ashby/Brough shenanigans in a political sense, even though they stink to high heaven and were eminently unethical - your reason?... they weren't illegal.

If it's okay to excuse the actions of Brough and Ashby because they weren't illegal, then you should extend the same judgment to Gillard in her appointment of Slipper.