IT is my view that Scott Morrison is very adept at victim-blaming. The other night on 7.30, when Leigh Sales put to him the allegations of lying, bullying and being a "horrible, horrible person" made by a growing list of current and former political colleagues and at least one world leader, Morrison simply responded that this was all just expressions of disappointment by people who didn't achieve the outcomes they desired. Classic victim-blaming.
And in recent days, when confronted by the fact that two former officials of the Cook branch of the Liberal Party had made statutory declarations asserting that Morrison had used pejorative language to discredit the candidate who was initially selected by the branch (by a resounding 82 votes to Morrison's eight votes), Morrison's farcical response was that he would make a statutory declaration to "prove" that what they had stated in their statutory declarations was untrue. Perhaps he believes that because he is prime minister (an assertion he is fond of making), or perhaps because he is a Pentecostal Christian, his statutory declaration is more credible than theirs. We are yet to see his statutory declaration. Once again, big announcement, no delivery.
