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November 21st, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda THE LNP’s state executive will hold an emergency meeting this week in the wake of a tsunami of complaints from Sunshine Coast members about the behaviour of Fisher MP Peter Slipper.
But while senior sources said last week they may look to a pre-selection ballot before Christmas to ease tensions, that is not enough for branch hard liners who now want Mr Slipper expelled.
LNP president Bruce McIver was not available for comment yesterday.
However, the Daily understands the emergency meeting of the executive may come as early as today.
Mr McIver may rue not acting on calls from within Fisher to remove the party’s endorsement of Mr Slipper ahead of last year’s federal election.
Growing demands for Mr Slipper’s expulsion would diminish any hope Coalition Leader Tony Abbott harbours for an early end to the minority Labor Government.
The state executive is understood to have already discussed a raft of scenarios with federal party director Brian Loughnane.
But rumours persisted out of Canberra yesterday of a plan to simply shift the problem to Fairfax and to have Mr Slipper endorsed for that seat ahead of the next federal election, due in 2013.
Such a move would “create a riot” among members in that electorate according to one source, who said the parliamentary deputy speaker was now an unelectable liability.
“Bruce McIver has been warned for more than a year that something had to be done about Peter and he’s done nothing,” one source said.
Anger at Mr Slipper’s claims of branch stacking in Fisher and his demands that the party’s divisional council chairman Mal Brough be expelled was amplified last Friday by his decision to escort former Labor PM Kevin Rudd around Kawana High School, when former Liberal leader John Howard was here to launch John Connolly’s campaign for the state seat of Nicklin.
“People seem to be upset that there was an unintentional clash with a visit by former prime minister Mr Howard,” Mr Slipper told ABC Coast FM.
“Frankly, I wasn’t going to the Howard function, I didn’t have it listed in the diary. In fact I didn’t know the function was on the same day.”
Mr Connolly did not accept Mr Slipper’s claims that he did not know about the John Howard visit.
“If you read (LNP) emails you would know it was on,” he said.
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