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    Re: Kiss of death Archived Message

    Posted by Ken Waldron on September 6, 2020, 2:08 pm, in reply to "Kiss of death"

    "John McTernan was endorsing Tony Abbott just now on Sky News."

    Funny that. On his actual stint of failure in Oz he organised a smear campaign against him:

    "...he encouraged Labor staffers to mobilise so called "Twitter armies"' to ridicule the Tony Abbott-led opposition and attack individual Coalition MPs online, which he would later point out to journalists as proof of public opinion..."

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-11/leaked-emails-reveal-aggressive-style-of-john-mcternan/5149158?nw=0

    His greatest hit in terms of failure was of course his term as Jim Murphys chief of staff. With his help he claimed:
    "...Jim Murphy will win in Scotland and Jim will sort Scotland out"

    - He and Murphy then went on to lose a record breaking 40 out of Labours 41 seats.

    In what topsy turvy world would anyone employ a guy who is the epitome of failure at what he claims to be an expert on?

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