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OnSong wrote:

Roxy the Rat Girl wrote:Quote from In Daily Article - Liberals squeal while Labor promises to change

'Weatherill sealed his deal with Brock after driving to Port Pirie on Saturday to meet with him after news broke of Such’s illness. Marshall said he spoke with Brock via the phone several times on Saturday. http://indaily.com.au/news/2014/03/24/liberals-squeal-labor-promises-to-change/

I guess Weatherill just wanted it more than Marshal and understood how to get it better than Steven did.

Brock had told Steven he wanted the weekend to spend with family and would make a decision mid next week.

I don't think he seriously considered going with the Libs anyway.

Jimmy_041 wrote:

OnSong wrote:

Roxy the Rat Girl wrote:Quote from In Daily Article - Liberals squeal while Labor promises to change

'Weatherill sealed his deal with Brock after driving to Port Pirie on Saturday to meet with him after news broke of Such’s illness. Marshall said he spoke with Brock via the phone several times on Saturday. http://indaily.com.au/news/2014/03/24/liberals-squeal-labor-promises-to-change/

I guess Weatherill just wanted it more than Marshal and understood how to get it better than Steven did.

Brock had told Steven he wanted the weekend to spend with family and would make a decision mid next week.

I don't think he seriously considered going with the Libs anyway.

Well, Jay is family now
I had to laugh: they asked Brock what pizza he ordered and he couldn't remember.............
FMD, I haven't had pizza in a month but I still remember what it was

am Bays wrote:I'll make the prediction now for March - hung parliament.

Which side will form Govt I've no idea. 23-22 major parties with Such and Brock (memebr for Frome) holding the balance of power.

bennymacca wrote:http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/opinion/michael-mcguire-the-sa-liberal-party-cant-win-an-election-and-entrenched-mps-must-resign/story-fni6unxq-1226863581190

pretty good article imo. especially the comments about how steven marshall seemed like the fresh faced leader libs required a year or so ago, but somehow let all of that enthusiasm fall by the wayside.

i think a lot of that was conflict between trying to be your own person, and following the path to victory that the federal libs laid down, which just didnt match marshall's personality.

Jimmy_041 wrote:Also time to tell Pyne and Bernardi to permanently move to Canberra and STFU about local matters

Psyber wrote:I suspect the SA Libs would have done better had they kept the Federal party members, including Pyne and Abbott, out of the campaign.
Including them made it easy for the state ALP to link the SA Liberal team with the Federal policies some swinging voters are unhappy about.
(I'm not entirely behind the Feds either and I'm a Liberal Party member.)

Weatherill promises to work with PM
Weatherill this morning promised a “mature” working relationship with Canberra, saying his election stoush with Tony Abbott was part of the usual campaign nonsense.
The Prime Minister visited South Australia a number of times during the election to support Liberal leader Steven Marshall and became involved in a war of words with the premier.
Mr Abbott faced particular criticism for not inviting the Labor leader to one campaign announcement, that the state would be the base for a squadron of high-tech surveillance aircraft.
But Mr Weatherill has downplayed the stand-off.
“There’s always some nonsense before elections as parties line up with their fraternal parties,” he told ABC radio.
“Now, we’re over all that, we can get back to some serious discussions.”

Jimmy_041 wrote:Well, FMD, Jay lied. He's not going to stand up to Tony Abbott for you.
It was just part of the usual campaign nonsense that you all fell for.
As is the procurement savings, balanced budget and probably half the infrastructure projects he promised (anyone remember the electrification and Darlington Interchange promises from last election?)

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia-state-election-2014/south-australia-labor-premier-jay-weatherill-vows-to-change-as-geoff-brock-backs-labor-for-minority-government/story-fnl3k6uz-1226862740476

Weatherill promises to work with PM
Weatherill this morning promised a “mature” working relationship with Canberra, saying his election stoush with Tony Abbott was part of the usual campaign nonsense.
The Prime Minister visited South Australia a number of times during the election to support Liberal leader Steven Marshall and became involved in a war of words with the premier.
Mr Abbott faced particular criticism for not inviting the Labor leader to one campaign announcement, that the state would be the base for a squadron of high-tech surveillance aircraft.
But Mr Weatherill has downplayed the stand-off.
“There’s always some nonsense before elections as parties line up with their fraternal parties,” he told ABC radio.
“Now, we’re over all that, we can get back to some serious discussions.”