Andrew Bolt's Blog,31/12/18; Bolt's back aping Dutton; It's not "bullying" it's normal hard political nous;

JULIA BANKS NOW ADMITS THE LEFT WERE THE BULLIES

When Julia Banks quit the Liberals, she hinted the Right were bullies: "Banks says the... party is hostile to women... She says moderate voices 'have been drowned out by the right wing'." But now she blames the Left: "They started becoming really concerned that Peter Dutton was seriously going to win. Men and women were being harassed and bullied.”

28/12/2018

Well, Bolt can't help himself, can he? Here he is not a single "direct" quote from Julia Banks saying the "left" were the real bullies.  Bolt dodges discissing who the Liberal bullies might be by bashing the media.  Yes, just Bolt offering a kicking to Fairfax and the Guardian and not even uttering a word from Julia Bank's mouth yet readily flying a misleading and false banner as if she did and said it directly to him. Has Bolt found the Holy Grail, the truth, proving the conservative right aren't bullies but just misunderstood politicians playing normal and "hard" politics? It's not what Dutton admitted to yesterday.
  Yes, it's what Dutton said yesterday. When Mr Boomgate said Turnbull was just a pathetic politician who didn't know how to play the "game" of politics hard? He simply didn't have the ticker or nous. It's what was said of Julia Banks before and after she went to the crossbench.
Name the "bullies" Bolt says in the same way he says name the "stolen " generation name 10 children. You can't according to Bolt because no " official" record will be found and that's the only account to be believed. It was welfare suckers!!
The fact here is Julia Banks hasn't named anybody left or right Bolt has done all the naming and he's flipped to now say Banks isn't a liar "Mind you, I am no more likely to accept the word of this person now than I was then" Bolt 
If Bolt were honest which he's not he'd raise the fact that Craig Kelly revealed himself to be what Banks was talking about when he publicly threatened his own Party with doing what Banks did and stomping on the Warringah Motion in a tantrum as if it never occurred. Banks had justification for her actions Kelly didn't.
 Does Bolt refer to Peter Dutton's comments yesterday? That the moderates of the Liberal Party didn't know how to play "hard " politics?  Or to the time we witnessed thuggish humour when Mr Boomgate and Tony Abbott were caught cackling about the Pacific Island Nations like two Clock Work, Orange buffoons handing out a verbal kicking with Scott Morrison was seen standing there looking sheepish and embarrassed for even being caught with them. Their actions and character speaks for itself and tells us who they are.
Bolt is simply aping what Dutton did yesterday when he called himself a great politician who plays the "game" hard. That wimps like Turnbull and his supporters can't because they haven't any political nous that the conservatives have. So here is Bolt the chorus boy in the bleachers saying that Banks and the Turnbull majority are the real bullies and Banks is admitting as much. What a load of .....'We went from three-word slogans to 3,000': Dutton unleashes on Turnbull

Change the face of the Liberal Party? Change the (mostly male) faces

Sali Miftari

Among the ritualistic post-mortems and appraisals of the Victorian Liberal Party’s shocking electoral defeat, a women’s place in parliament (or, more appropriately, lack of place) will be a key focus of my party’s renewal process.

 What do YOUNG LIBERALS think?
With an already limited and now decreased number of Liberal women at Spring Street and the crossbench shift of the only Liberal woman to win a seat off Labor at the last federal election, one 
would struggle to convincingly argue that the Liberal Party is as representative as it could be.

Some would have you believe this is not a problem because it was merit and competence alone that caused the Parliament to be composed in the way it is. Others would additionally suggest that our country – of which 51 per cent of residents are women – should be fortunate that the halls of power are not dotted with so-called “quota women”, generating the perception that those women lack the talent, gravitas or capacity to be a part of the decision-making process.

These arguments fail to consider the simple and historically proven fact that political parties are most successful when their policies and leadership can be embraced by a broad cross-section of the population. The centre ground, in electoral politics, is key; it is the majority’s place of reason, relatability and relevance. Public policy and legislation already can be a blunt means of addressing societal challenges with effectiveness. Continued under-representation of women will only weaken the Liberal Party’s ability to leverage the wisdom of crowds, which in turn will compromise our ability to develop genuine policy solutions that address challenges facing certain segments of society.
Wiser words than Andrew Bolt that's for sure

Donald Trump

Donald Trump had about 15 false claims a day

January's fusillade of tweets was the start of a year of unprecedented deception.

When 2018 began, the president had made 1,989 false and misleading claims, according to The Washington Post's Fact Checker's database, which tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president. By the end of the year, Trump had accumulated more than 7600 untruths during his presidency, averaging more than 15 erroneous claims a day during 2018, almost triple the rate from the year before.
The thing is 15 a day and he's known for repeating what he's heard on Murdoch Media's Fox News. Maybe Fact Checker ought to focus on just how many come from News Corp.
The amusing stat yesterday was that Sky news has joined with the WIN TV network to get a potential of 7.5 million more viewers and the gun at Sky After Dark is Andrew Bolt with a nightly aggregate of 23,000, wow and he's the best they can do. Waleed Aly has 800,000 + Bolt will readily tell you he's the best but not tell you the numbers. Fact checker should do a check on him it's really about time don't you think? How many fans does this man really have?