Content to wait for the results tonight and to know both sides have dirt and fools, too to watch how well one motion go,s both in the deep north and out side

Daniel Andrews will be in political handcuffs all the way to the November 24 election.

The fraud investigation makes it deeply problematic for him to campaign effectively on law and order, given many of his MPs are being pursued along Spring Street by detectives.

Every Labor MP that took part in the “red shirts” scheme will have to live with the baggage of the investigation, even if they haven’t broken the law.

It hands Liberal leader Matthew Guy a profound advantage, given law and order is at the heart of the Coalition’s attempts to seize power.

The Andrews government feels older than a one-term administration and the police investigation has simply added wrinkles to the carcass. This is the price the government pays for adopting the “whatever it takes’’ strategy. It’s what happens when political parties resort to ruthless (and possibly illegal) machine politics to win elections without fully considering the consequences.

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Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House, in Melbourne, Wednesday, June 20, 2018. (AAP Image/Alex Murray) NO ARCHIVINGHeat on ministers, cops move inSAMANTHA HUTCHINSON
Guy inherited the strategic advantage the moment word broke that police had backed a full-scale investigation.

For many months, Guy and his team have been using community uncertainty about crime rates, including gang activity, to wedge the government.

While some of the Coalition rhetoric has been excessive, it has been overwhelmingly driven by polling.

This polling shows there is deep concern in sections of the community about safety, and the capacity and willingness of the law enforcement agencies to respond to challenges such as gang violence.

The investigation will not harm the position of police chief commissioner Graham Ashton, who has had an awkward relationship with the opposition.

More broadly, it has become increasingly clear that the Premier has an absolute fight on his hands to remain in office.

Labor is not terminal, but its edges are fraying.

The fraud investigation is not problematic for Daniel
Andrews at all. The amount of money that was spent
in the 2014 state election has been paid back in full.
And the tactics currently being used by the Liberal Party
in Victoria - such as handing leaflets out to try to spread
fear of - "gangs hunting in packs," is having a negative
effect towards the Liberal Party. Voters are seeing these
sort of tactics for what they really are - mud-slinging
nasty and bigoted.

Mathew Guy's tactics smack of desperation. It's not the
Labor Party that's frayed. It's the Libs that will learn
that winning at someone else's expense is an old paradigm and
an increasingly obsolete model of success.

BTW: Daniel Andrews will be introducing a free-fee-scheme
in Victoria in 2019 for vital undermanned areas - no fees
for sectors like - nursing, accounting, agriculture,
age-care-support, disability care and support, construction
and building, automotive, hairdressing, signage and graphics,
food services, and engineering pathways ...

It's all happening in Victoria.

cont'd ...

Here's a link that explains:

http://www.pedestrian.tv/news/daniel-andrews-budget-victoria-tafe-courses-free/

cont'd ...

My apologies. I forgot to add that it's the TAFE courses listed
that are free. Part of the free-fee scheme by the
Daniel Andrews Labor Government for vital under-manned areas.

Foxy,

Since when has returning the proceeds of crime ever nullified the crime? The police are already aware that the money has been returned, and have still opened a crime docket. At best this will mitigate the sentence.

Unless Labor is exonerated quickly this will be a major election issue along with the gangs that Labor has allowed to flourish.