Scott Morrison had a horror week last week.
Like Paul Keating with Ros Kelly he could not even admit his minister,Angus Taylor, had misled parliament and thus should resign.
Again like Ros Kelly Taylor's explanation blew up when people showed that what he said simply could not have occurred.
Unfortunately for Morrison the NSW police decided that it needed to investigate this matter.
This produced the first of his mis-steps. He then actually phoned the NSW police commissioner. ( At this stage we do not know whether these former next door neighbours are mates. They first of all said they were and then said they only said that for a laugh.)
The very idea of a PM ringing a police commissioner who officers are investigating his minster totally escaped Morrison..
He then claimed to know of the investigation and essentially said it was no big deal. The police commissioner disagreed with what Morrison said of the conversation.On this I believe the police commissioner as it would be close to a sackable offence for him to tell the PM of the whys and wherefores of the investigation.
Coming back to Parliament Morrison then misled parliament not once, nor twice nor even thrice but FOUR times.
Thus what did we learn?
Morrison is very bad at thinking on his feet. I was surprised this was being ventilated by government supporters. Next election Morrison will not get the free run he got in the last election. He will be on the defence most of the time. This episode suggests liberal supporters will be very worried.
When Morrison is under pressure he shouts and uses very 'combative' language. It is not a great look. Again this will be exacerbated in an election.
This whole episode has shut down criticism of Albanese. His knowledge of parliamentary procedures is masterful and is good on his feet so he was in his element.
Will either party learn from this???
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