ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact
Many people around the country have been calling for the resignation of Angus Taylor for months.
Angus has been caught out doing bad things. Things that allegedly include hiding money in a tax haven, letting his staff doctor official documents to smear a political rival, making up things about a woman he allegedly went to college with but really didn’t and some other things of equal or worse nature.
But he will not resign and we as a collective nation will largely forget who Angus Taylor is over the Christmas break.
To this day, the fuck up benchmark that triggers a full-blown resignation from the party is still former WA opposition leader Troy Buswell.
The Bus’ controversy page on Wikipedia is Tolkienesque. Each sentence is punctuated with the beginning of anthor that’s even more outlandish than the one preceding it.
His journey begins in 2008, where he ‘snapped’ the elastic bra strap of a Labor staffer. Troy apologised and time marched on. Next, he got pinged with the seat. In the scheme of things, that should’ve been it for the Bunbury boy. He apologised and time marched on. Troy had an affair with a Greens member, which is his own business. But as a public figure, he was expected to at least show some sense of decorum. He apologised and time marched on. The douglas fir than broke the camel’s back came in 2014 when Troy was convicted and fined for 11 motor vehicle offences whilst holding the cabinet position of Minister for Transport. These fines related to careless driving, failing to stop at a crash and failing to report an accident.
Political commentators say Angus Taylor has now reached the chair sniff level on the Liberal Party fuck up scale, meaning he’s a moth flying dangerously close to the streetlight.
It will be interesting to see what happens from now, said Barrie Cassidy during an unsolicited phone call to our newsroom.
After the cadet who took Mr Cassidy’s call googled who he was talking to, he hung up.
More to come.
