Bazz,

The following may be of interest:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018/09/18/liberal-leadership-spill-rupert-murdoch-kerry-stokes-influence/10262552

73,s Bazz look let me tell you I can find plenty to be alarmed about in my party the next government.
TRUTH however is the only measure I value
Head shaking stuff that you seem to think your words are true.
Read a bit, learn that the right of reality are fueled on lies
For example, unlikely to be seen from Conservative posts, one of my party's faults
You can not cross the floor and vote with the other side in my mob.
That fact stopped honest men and women demanding a particularly filthy vermin known as Eddy O bead being exposed near ten years before he was, take the challenge read about just how false you words are

Foxy, a whole lot of people running around clucking about Malcolm has
to go and others saying how marvelous he is and should stay.
Where the rubber hits the road, the members of the parliamentary party
have to live or die by what they say, so what outsiders say do or
threaten makes no difference they vote for their own survival.

None of them would sacrifice themselves for Rupert or anyone else.
Take no notice of the ABC, they are a player in the game.
I read that link, and it just confirms it.
Ultimately Malcolm lost the support of his fellow members and the most
honorable thing he did was to take the hint and resign.

His position became intolerable when his NEG collapsed and it would
not have mattered what Rupert said he was finished anyway.

Bazz in you case knowing what a great person you have been in the service of our hobby it hurts.
Not that you have a different opinion.
But that your opinion is not based on any real evidence even in the end truth.
Murdock, a man like his father that gets deeply involved in politics, find a falsehood/lie/ untrue statement in my words here.
His dad had politicians, very very prominent ones, stand at his desk in his Adelaide office hat in hand and call him Sir
Rupert installed the Whitlam Government,be sure about it he did, he then uninstalled them, *with the help of a drunk Governor General* and some Ministers in that government*
Continued

That uninstall process saw Murdocks news paper staff go on strike! because they did not agree with his extremely slanted reporting.
Murdock put New Labor in power in England, as his scandal sheet the Sun screamed in the morning after headlines *it was us that done it* Tony Blair owned both his rise and his fall, to, well getting a little too close to Rupert's child bride, but mostly because your SAINT Rupert wanted him gone.
Politics on either side should not be bought and paid for by any one.
Now Rupert flew directly to Canberra a week later his party, bought and paid for, tried to put Dutton on the throne, the one with Rupert,s strings on.the ease that Murdock managed the phone tapping scandal in England screams of influence surely?
This story we differ over is quite true, no ABC invention, and it should frighten you as much as it frightens me, it is rumored if Shorten was to be replaced your knight in shining armor may very well make a startling change in his current position on his private monoply board game we know as politics

Polling showed Turnbull had steered his party to a
respectable position - 49% to Labor's 51. Turnbull
had also consistently been the preferred PM over
Shorten. Internally party hacks like Abbott and Dutton
promoted that the Libs had "alienated their base" by
elevating a "moderate" like Turnbull. Then of course
the chipping continued by the likes of Ray Hadley,
Alan Jones, Andrew Bolt, NewsCorps and Sky News Peta
Credlin, and papers like the Daily Telegraph, Herald
Sun, The Australian - under the directives of Rupert
Murdoch - they all played an influential part.
Turnbull acknowledged this in his farewell speech
as did Alan Jones on Q&A. (he'd even admitted to
privately contacting - MPs to influence them).

As Turnbull stated it was "madness!"