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From the Guardian’s live blog: Peter Dutton says David Van 'should no longer sit in the Liberal party room' Peter Dutton statement: Since the airing of Senator Thorpe’s allegation yesterday, further allegations in relation to Senator Van have been brought to my attention overnight and this morning. As such, I met with Senator Van this morning and a short time ago, I advised Senator Van of my decision that he should no longer sit in the Liberal party party room. At the outset, I want to make clear, very clear, that I’m not making any judgment on the veracity of the allegations or any individual’s guilt or innocence.
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Vladimir Poutine posted:From the Guardian’s live blog: I hate those weasel words "I am not going to say anything about whether he is guilty or innocent. But many people have made enough allegations against him for me to punish him. But I am not saying he's guilty, Oh no." Also that "alleged" sexual assault only gets you slightly demoted. And the fact that this fuckwit isn't fighting his demotion as hard as the nazi Victorian Liberal woman fought hers.
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Since the airing of Senator Thorpe’s allegation yesterday, further allegations in relation to Senator Van have been brought to my attention that I was already largely aware of and happy to ignore until they were made public. As such, The Spud is just playing the odds, no real action or discipline but it might hurt his run at PM if he now continues to ignore it.
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BrigadierSensible posted:I hate those weasel words "I am not going to say anything about whether he is guilty or innocent. But many people have made enough allegations against him for me to punish him. But I am not saying he's guilty, Oh no." It's not punishment for Van, it's distancing himself/party from what is about to happen. Honestly god damned shocked to see Dutton do that, I assumed his response would be "Thorpe be crazy". There must be a raft of allegations against Van not to close ranks around him this early.
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Chucking him out of the party room without a fair trial before the Law seems pretty woke
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JBP posted:Chucking him out of the party room without a fair trial before the Law seems pretty woke Would you go so far as to say it's Cancel Culture? or That Dutton is saying No to Van having a voice in parliament?
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JBP posted:Chucking him out of the party room without a fair trial before the Law seems pretty woke Is Law what Dutton calls himself when he puts on his cop uniform?
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Eediot Jedi posted:Honestly god damned shocked to see Dutton do that, I assumed his response would be "Thorpe be crazy". There must be a raft of allegations against Van not to close ranks around him this early.
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Barnaby Joyce walks into the Armidale pub and introduces himself to the barman. “I’m the local country member”. Without missing a beat the barman replies “I remember”.
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lih posted:sky news reported that a former liberal senator has accused van of groping her at a drinks event three years ago, and that a complaint was made at the time. dutton was informed of that allegation last night and possibly more Is this what they refer to that he's been Me Tooed? I'd never heard of him before today...I suspect we're going to hear a great deal more of him.
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hooman posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Auspol 2023 - "gently caress off, Pauline." 
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Eediot Jedi posted:Honestly god damned shocked to see Dutton do that, I assumed his response would be "Thorpe be crazy". There must be a raft of allegations against Van not to close ranks around him this early. If Peter loving Dutton decides that you're not fit to be in the Liberal party room then this fucker must be absolutely vile in private
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Imagine having Pauline as a work colleague She probably gets told to gently caress off every day
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Wait does that mean "gently caress off, Pauline" is going to be recorded in the hansard?
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Auspol 2023 -A second senator has hit the Van (not as good as the other one upthread)
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The poo poo has hit the Van
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starkebn posted:been saying for ages in this thread we need a national response group who are trained and equipped for natural disasters, guess it might happen There was actually a private safety and rescue group back in the 80s, really ground breaking stuff. They even had the only multi-person barometric chamber in the southern hemisphere. Then it turned out the guy in charge was siphoning all the money into his own bank account and everything collapsed, because it was the 80s and that's just what famous Australian businessmen did.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:There was actually a private safety and rescue group back in the 80s, really ground breaking stuff. They even had the only multi-person barometric chamber in the southern hemisphere. Wasn't this the thunderbirds?
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Eediot Jedi posted:The poo poo has hit the Van Expecting 10s of posts of people barrelling in going "Van Badham did what?!" hooman posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Auspol 2023 - gently caress off Pauline
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MysticalMachineGun posted:Expecting 10s of posts of people barrelling in going "Van Badham did what?!" Never sure how to feel about her. She writes some really good solid things but other times she's the very example of why rusted-on-labor types are so very frustrating.
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Autisanal Cheese posted:If Peter loving Dutton decides that you're not fit to be in the Liberal party room then this fucker must be absolutely vile in private With how quickly they dumped him instead of doing the whole song and dance the LNP must have already known this guy was a serial loving sex pest and were just carefully ignoring it and sweeping it under the rug.
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I’m curious, how long has this dude been in the senate? And which faction of libs is he affiliated with?
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In other fun Liberal news: The Vic Liberals Women's Committee is demanding that they re-instate Moira Denning, the MP who spoke the TERF/Nazi event.
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hooman posted:With how quickly they dumped him instead of doing the whole song and dance the LNP must have already known this guy was a serial loving sex pest and were just carefully ignoring it and sweeping it under the rug. no you see they were only informed of his shittery
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Embattled Senator David Van to quit parliament and seek help | 7NEWS The actual video doesn't actually say he's going to quit parliament or seek help (huh?) He's moved to Embattled and will soon be former, and the disgraced it seems. Comstar fucked around with this message at 12:36 on Jun 16, 2023 |
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Libs swinging in against Labor to once again politicise the Bruce Lehrmann case and spectacularly detonate a sitting predator.
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starkebn posted:Pity there's no by elections for senate seats Probably why Dutton was quick to pull the trigger. If he was in the House maybe he would have doubled down.
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Comstar posted:Embattled Senator David Van to quit parliament and seek help | 7NEWS he needs help to stop raping
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The Lord Bude posted:I’m curious, how long has this dude been in the senate? And which faction of libs is he affiliated with? since 2019. he was vaguely part of morrison's faction at the time but has been unaligned since the election loss. he was already facing a preselection challenge for the next election since he didn't have much of an internal base and had done absolutely nothing of note in his term. hooman posted:With how quickly they dumped him instead of doing the whole song and dance the LNP must have already known this guy was a serial loving sex pest and were just carefully ignoring it and sweeping it under the rug. it's already been confirmed that he was known within the party as a creep at the very least, to the extent that there had been previous failed attempts to convince him to resign from parliament
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Member for Face Eating Imported Cat party discovers what party he is in.quote:In the letter, Van said he was resigning from the party but suggested he would remain in the Senate. He's moved to the Former stage but sounds like the gravy train will continue.
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Also, he's jumping off the Libs, (" I wasn't pushed, really. I am resigning of my own free will."), at a time when the Victorian Liberals are so unpopular that he is more likely to get elected as an independent with a public profile. Albeit that profile is of a gropey rapey prick, but ... Unrelated edit: Do you reckon that ScoMo still has hid "I stopped these" trophy that he made for himself? And is it displayed as proudly? Will he keep that on his mantlepiece long into his old age? BrigadierSensible fucked around with this message at 09:28 on Jun 17, 2023 |
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*runs into thread, completely out of breath* More like, VANCELED, am I right?
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