Green’s Leader Kim Booth’s credibility and leadership has been called into serious question today by former Greens Lyons MP Tim Morris.
In a letter to the editor* in today’s Mercury, Mr Morris supports Nick McKim’s version of the Green’s party room meeting which saw them support Labor in 2010 to form minority Government.
In his letter, Mister Morris says;
“all five Greens agreed ‘all of us would be available for Ministries’ if offered, however the number on offer was not known at that stage. Three days later, after the final offer of one minister and a cabinet secretary position was made, Kim Booth disagreed with the decision to accept the offer.”
This flies in the face of what Kim Booth told TasWeekend on March 7** when he said, “I made it very clear that I was not comfortable at all in supporting Labor, even with three ministries and 30 per cent of the budget.”
Kim Booth publicly claimed he didn’t support the Labor-Green deal but it’s now emerged it was only because he was overlooked for a ministry and chucked the sads about it.
If Kim Booth can’t be believed about the past, how can he be believed in the future?
*Saturday Mercury, ‘I kept notes’, Pg. 30, April 42015
**http://www.themercury.com.au/news/politics/it-was-a-calculated-risk-for-the-greens-and-labor-to-form-minority-government-but-was-it-worth-it/story-fnpp9w4j-1227252300224
Sarah Courtney, Liberal Member for Bass
