FORMER Senator Gerard Rennick says the announcement of a split in the Coalition is “a smokescreen designed to fool voters that the Nationals will stand up for their constituents”.
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Rennick says the Nationals won’t stand up for their constituents. “Neither party can form government without each other and the Nationals will go crawling back to the Liberals the moment they can form government, with scant regard for their values,” Rennick posted on X today.
“If they are serious, then the Nationals should contest Liberal held seats in the cities. I guarantee you they won’t.
“Notorious LNP bedwetter, Lawrence Springborg is best mates with Littleproud and is already saying the LNP won’t split up in Queensland. What sort of split is this?
“It’s a pretend split to fool the voters, is what it is. Parties are run at the state level and both the Queensland and New South Wales divisions have said they are staying in a Coalition.
“While the LNP remain one party in Queensland, any split cannot be taken seriously. The confusion around this so called split will only drive more voters away.
“As one Liberal MP said, he hopes an agreement is reached with the Nationals before the next election. What a joke. Furthermore this split will only embolden the Liberals to go further left thus destroying any remaining credibility they have left.
“Ultimately neither party, like Labor, has the conviction, vision or know how to take Australia forward.”
Rennick noted that Springborg, in an email to party members obtained by The Courier-Mail, said the discussions federally had “no bearing or impact on the organisational arrangements within the Queensland LNP”.
“The positive benefit that comes from the single united LNP in Queensland is there will be no Nationals, or Liberals contesting against each other in a futile waste of critical resources,” he said.
“We hope that as a part of the ongoing federal discussions this can also be avoided in other places around our nation.”
