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Dear gods, what is there to say about the spectacular self-destruction of John Brogden, the smarmy young git who was leading the NSW Libs until yesterday? I mean, aside from "you fucking idiot".
For those who don't follow Australian politics, NSW's most successful Labour premier, Bob Carr, recently announced his retirement. This put the Libs in with a fair chance to win the next election. So Brogden celebrates this by heading out for a night on the town. Six beers later, he's groped a couple of female journalists, and then suggested that Bob Carr should put his "mail-order bride" "back on the boat". Nice.
This would be the "mail order bride" that he's been married to for 30 years, is a trained economist and is a quite successful businesswoman in her own right.
This happened a month ago, but the story only broke into circulation on the weekend. Brogden initially denied it, calling it a smear and gutter politics. He then admitted it had happened, and tried to apologise to keep his job. To no avail - and in his remarkably graceless resignation speech, he attacked the NSW Labour government, tried to tell us that he still had the support of his party, and went after the Liberal factional enemy that he thinks pushed the story into the media. Dude - you got pissed and touched up a couple of fucking journalists, then told a racist joke in their hearing. Did you really think it'd not get reported?
What the fuck is it with the state Liberal parties, anyway? They seem to range from hapless to utterly pathetic.
The Age has a page of quotes and links to other bloggers on the subject, including my favourite "The pratty, annoying private school kid you'd love to punch in the face."
For those who don't follow Australian politics, NSW's most successful Labour premier, Bob Carr, recently announced his retirement. This put the Libs in with a fair chance to win the next election. So Brogden celebrates this by heading out for a night on the town. Six beers later, he's groped a couple of female journalists, and then suggested that Bob Carr should put his "mail-order bride" "back on the boat". Nice.
This would be the "mail order bride" that he's been married to for 30 years, is a trained economist and is a quite successful businesswoman in her own right.
This happened a month ago, but the story only broke into circulation on the weekend. Brogden initially denied it, calling it a smear and gutter politics. He then admitted it had happened, and tried to apologise to keep his job. To no avail - and in his remarkably graceless resignation speech, he attacked the NSW Labour government, tried to tell us that he still had the support of his party, and went after the Liberal factional enemy that he thinks pushed the story into the media. Dude - you got pissed and touched up a couple of fucking journalists, then told a racist joke in their hearing. Did you really think it'd not get reported?
What the fuck is it with the state Liberal parties, anyway? They seem to range from hapless to utterly pathetic.
The Age has a page of quotes and links to other bloggers on the subject, including my favourite "The pratty, annoying private school kid you'd love to punch in the face."
