Thread by @Aaronsmith333

Josh. A thread

It’s hard to pinpoint the moment I became certain that Josh Frydenberg is not a man I want in our Parliament.

What I know is that I'm one of nearly 3,000 volunteers for @Mon4Kooyong, about 80% of who are volunteering like this for the 1st time.

1/15

During the first significant lockdown, I remember Josh using every opportunity he could to politicise Covid, and act in defiance of the health advice.

In our lowest moments, we needed support, but Josh prioritised his own political ambitions before Victorians.

2/15

In Vic's first outbreak when we were pursuing Covid Zero, all borders were closed to us, and there was no vaccine. We had to get to zero.

Despite having no choice, Josh continued to undermine the expert advice and kick, kick and kick us some more.

3/15

Even in May 2021, having achieved Zero in Victoria multiple times, Josh still referred to Victoria as the 'state of disaster'.

This at a moment when the federal govt had delivered no quarantine, and was on a go-slow vaccine roll-out.

He failed every leadership test.

4/15

But Josh's leadership failures are not limited to Covid.

Here he is, backing in his party's decision to retain Andrew Laming, despite what Laming did.

What we wanted is for Josh to say, 'Andrew's behaviour is not acceptable, so we've removed him from the party'.

5/15

In July 21, as the NSW outbreak was out of control, Laura Tingle invited Josh to apportion blame to the NSW govt as he had done to the VIC govt.

But Josh's criticism were only ever driven by politics, not by fundamentals. So he digs in, further.

6/15

Faced with a Vic outbreak, Josh reluctantly provided support, but applied a liquid assets test that meant people with savings would be forced to use that first.

Days later, when the same occurred in NSW, he scrapped the test.

Introducing the treasurer for NSW.

7/15

As the failure of his govt to order Pfizer as soon as it could became known, Josh changed his rhetoric.

To the disbelief of Victorians who endured lockdowns relentlessly criticised by Josh to save 1000s of lives, Josh incredulously took credit for saving those lives.

8/15

As things worsened in NSW, Josh cemented his position as the Treasurer for NSW by continuing to enact support that favoured NSW.

It was baffling to Victorians who had arguably done it tougher for longer. A fact that Josh politicised continuously.

But he doubled down.

9/15

A period continued at the beginning of the NSW outbreak where Josh still thought it was acceptable to play politics and continue to bash Victoria and Victorians despite following the health advice.

Nothing was off-limits for Josh. But things would soon change.

10/15

As things worsened further in NSW, Josh was asked to reflect on the comparative situations to see if he was willing to levy the same cheap commentary.

His propensity for describing NSW as the 'Gold Standard' was phasing out.

But his politicisation of tragedy continued.

11/15

It became clear that the NSW lockdown was baked in until vaccines were delivered, so suddenly Josh supported lockdowns.

This was insulting to Victorians who had endured his relentless politicisation of the strategy.

He even made Jokes about it, as Josh does.

12/15

We'd given up any hope of leadership from Josh by this point.

It came as no surprise that when invited to be a Leader on the Christian Porter blind trust scandal, he instead backed in Porter insisting 'it was in the rules'.

It's no wonder Kooyong wants an ICAC.

13/15

Despite all this, Josh has not once reflected on how he has treated Victorians.

Instead he sees this election foremost as a barrier to his own ambitions, because that's all that drives Josh.

Kooyong is only a vehicle to The Lodge for Josh.

14/15

This Saturday, choose a Leader, not Liberal.

#Mon4Kooyong

15/15

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